Deja Vu (2006)

I saw director Tony Scott's previous effort "Domino" recently and hated it so much that I couldn't be bothered reviewing it.  That supposedly true story  starring Keira Knightley as a bounty hunter was so flashily put together that it came across as all flash and no substance.  I therefore had no high hopes for the preview of his latest release, but it was a truly nifty thriller, despite some very dubious premises.  Denzel Washington is the government ATF agent assisting the FBI team investigating the terrorist assault on a New Orleans ferry which killed over 500 men, women and children.  They have developed a technique of studying live surveillance footage some four days in arrears and we get involved in accepting that time travel is not only possible, but that the future can in fact be changed.  This is where this Jerry Bruckheimer action extravaganza gets a little intellectually unlikely, but the movie is none the worse for such impertinences.  It's one thing to fall in love with a dead woman; it is quite another to prevent her death after having attended her funeral!  All very entertaining and professionally handled, just don't try to work out the logic of it all.