Haven’t I Seen This Before?
- Title: Deja Vu
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A cop goes back in time to prevent the murder of a woman who will give birth to the future leader of the human race and lead them against the machines run by Skynet … um, I mean a woman who, well, isn’t really that important at all. But she’s cute, so there’s that. Yeah…
When a ferry explodes killing Naval officers and civilians, ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) is called in on the case. The discovery of a woman (Paula Patton) killed moments before the explosion leads Carlin on the path of a terrorist (James Caviezel), but even if he succeeds he can’t save the girl. Or can he?
A new top secret military project (headed up by Val Kilmer and Adam Goldberg) allows a team to look back exactly 100 hours into the past to discover the events that led to Clarie’s death and the identity of the terrorist. Doug joins the team to find the identity of the killer, but also begins to wonder if it might not be possible to journey through time and chance the past.
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A TV show made into a movie; a movie made into a DVD. Although a hit with a small and vocal fan base (and a fair amount critical support), Joss Whedon’s sci-fi western never found a home and was cancelled after only twelve episodes. Whedon’s drive and the fans furvor wouldn’t allow the series to die and Universal Pictures stepped in to provide the opportunity to continue to explore these characters in a feature film now available on DVD.
Here’s a peculiar story, a television show that only aired for four months and was cancelled after a dozen episodes has been made into a movie. Joss Whedon’s short lived, but much beloved, Firefly told the story of Malcolm Reynolds and his crew in the distant future, got the whack from Fox Television. Cancelled after only half a season into its run it produced big numbers when released on DVD and Whedon was asked to revive the franchise on the big screen. So what’s the result? Damn good if you ask me.
Aside from possibly being the worst adapted sci-fi project ever, this is the longest 100 minute movie I have ever been forced to sit through. Now I was pissed at Spielberg’s screwed up vision of Minority Report but even that becomes almost watch able compared to this reject. It’s not just that it is so bad mind you, and it’s terrible by the way, it’s the mind boggling way in which the story is run into the ground through such staggering ineptitude.