Déjà vu (2006) Tony Scott

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Watching a good action movie what we expect from the director is that he or she will show us something we have never seen before, something adrenaline-pumping, exciting, and engaging that will get us excited.

The film Dejà vù deals with a fascinating theme: that of time windows: that is, the possibility through Einstein-Rosen bridges to connect two points in space at different moments in time.
Time travel has always been a fascinating theme for human beings, and in this film it is also used to astound us.

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It is a 2006 science fiction thriller directed by Tony Scott and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Denzel Washington, who plays an ATF agent who travels back in time to try to prevent a terrorist attack in New Orleans and save a woman with whom he falls in love.

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The film begins in New Orleans on Mardi Gras day when the ferry Sen. Alvin T. Stumpf explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 543 people. Doug Carlin(Denzel Washington) discovers that the explosion was the result of a terrorist attack and, while investigating, comes across the body of Claire Kuchever, found charred in the river before the ferry exploded. Doug understands from the 'beginning of the investigation that the woman's death has something to do with the bombing especially when he enters Claire's house for an inspection he comes across clues that leave him with many doubts and unanswered questions;
But Later, when he learns about the technology that allows the time jump, through the Einstein-Rosen bridge, he realizes that he has to make that jump, he intuits that he has already been there, in the past, and he has already altered the events.....a déjà vu...... because the clues all lead back to him, and because in the meantime he has fallen in love with Claire and wishes he could save her. ........, he wants to avoid the explosion by going back in time 4 days and six hours, he wants to as he says in the movie: I always hunted down the culprits "after" they had committed a crime, for once in my life I would like to catch the culprit "before " he commits the crime!!!

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The construction of the story is very clever and fascinating, studied, with an excellent script.
The shots taken from multiple angles create a real stage effect especially when they "look into the past."

This film is full of dynamic scenes but one scene from my point of view is something electrifying:
the terrorist chase:
Doug wears an optical helmet that allows him to maintain the signal with the Einstein-Rosen Bridge and chases the terrorist into the past.
That's something I hadn't seen in a movie yet;
He was a genius Tony Scott; an innovative director;
To shoot this scene and
create an adrenaline environment he used sound, lighting, music that creates high tension, and hyperkinetic shots that create a fast pace.

And I'll end by saying that I like to think that Tony Scott's lifelong passion for mountaineering influenced his way of shooting with the camera; those shots of his taken from a thousand angles; it's like the view of the earth while climbing, it's full of different angles, and it has a spectacular fascination;
Maybe it was with those eyes, the climber's eyes, that he imagined the scenes.

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