Deja Vu
Netflix | Amazon
Overall Rating: 7/10
Met expectations: -2
Apparent rating: 5/10
I really abhor time travel as a plot device. Normally I avoid time travel movies. Deja Vu had a really good trailer and came with a recommendation from a friend who said the time travel was not annoying. This is completely true. The time travel aspect of this plot is not very annoying.
However, the movie is not very good. 90% of the interesting parts of the movie are shown in the trailer. The trailer makes it look like there is a lot of complicated plot. There is not much complicated plot. The plot seems to be that everything has already happened and the main character just needs to get with the program.
I was bothered by one thing. Denzel Washington was the main character. The love interest is a black woman (I would say “African American” but I didn’t look her up to find out if she’s American.) Why? Now, I’m not going to say that the actress chosen wasn’t good in her role (though she resembled Natalie Portman in those Star Wars prequels) but isn’t it racist of movies to always match people up by race?
This movie has Val Kilmer. He’s not looking so good, but did a tolerable job in his supporting role. It wasn’t enough that his name should have been in the big letters though.
I did not particularly enjoy this movie. It was longer than it needed to be and was a lot less detailed and developed than I wanted it to have been.
