Déjà vu is a science fiction film that was released 22nd November 2006. It did amazingly well at the box office, grossing an estimated $180,557,550 at the box office on a budget of $75,000,000. The film is rated 12 & runs for approximately 126 minutes. Déjà vu received mixed reviews.

The star of Déjà Vu is of course Denzel Washington, he happens to be one of my favourite actors. He’s appeared in: Training Day, Inside Man & American Gangster.

Doug is asked if he would like to join a new government project where detectives are using satellites in the sky to reverse time, the only trouble is, is that they can record but they can’t rewind or fast forward. What they see on the screens happened precisely 4 days, 6 hours before so if they want to see something urgently that happened a day ago they simply have to wait. Doug uses this newly formed equipment in his investigation into the body of the young woman and on his way he discovers that he may be able to change her fate by going back in time.

I’m not a fan of science fiction films and I usually avoid them like the plague but I had heard that this was an action movie as well and the fact that it has Denzel Washington in it makes it a lot more appealing to me. I had planned to see this at the cinema upon hearing very good reviews about it, partly just to see what all the fuss was about but I never got the chance to see it. I bought it on DVD for a while but when it was released on DVD all the hype surrounding it had disappeared and for some strange reason I just wasn’t too inclined to watch it. I didn’t actually get round to watching about 6 months after I bought it and that was purely out of boredom, I think hearing the dreaded words ‘science fiction’ momentarily put me off this but I’m glad I eventually got round to watching this because after the first half an hour all of my previous scepticism completely vanished.

This film also takes you in a completely different direction than I thought it would, on the viewing of the explosion I assumed it would be simply about possibly preventing it and although it is they don’t bog it down with one storyline. I think the murder of the young woman is a brilliant way of separating the story to further gain peoples attention as one story for two hours can be incredibly boring. Tony Scott & Jerry Bruckheimer did a fantastic job on the 1998 film Enemy Of The State and I can sort of see similarities between the two however there aren’t enough to complain that Déjà Vu is a rip-off of their earlier success.

The action scenes in this are brilliant, there’s one in particular which really sticks in my mind; that being the scene where Denzel Washington is driving the car with the glasses on, enabling him to see 4 days ago and the present day which means that he’s avoiding traffic in the present day but chasing after someone from 4 days ago. I know that probably makes no sense but if you’ve seen the film you’ll understand what I’m rambling about!

The DVD is currently available from play.com for £5.99, the Blu-Ray edition is also available but for the dearer price of £14.99 however having seen this film and all the brilliant special effects and action sequences I can only imagine that this film would look amazing in HD and I say that if you can afford it then get it! I think when this came out I bought it for £12.99 so whether you go for the regular edition DVD at £5.99 or the Blu-Ray edition at £14.99 when you think about it it’s only about the price as a newly released DVD anyway isn’t it? So you really can’t go wrong with this. If you are sceptical about whether you’ll like this though then obviously go for the cheaper DVD just incase although I doubt that anyone will be disappointed with this. I’ve read quite a few reviews on this film, both on this site and other places and they all seem to be really positive so this is definitely a film to check out when you have the time as I guarantee you wont be disappointed!