DejaVu

On the 9th of June I rented the DVD DejaVu from My Movies in Morwell.

Cliff and I watched it that night after the R.S.L.

I might just have to rent it again in about 6-9 months. Not that it was confusing but the concept is.

It starts with a ferry on a trip. A ferry employee hears music coming from a car and goes to check it out. We see a bomb in the car. At the same time we see a man on a motor bike on a near by bridge. The camera focus on him. He gets off the bike and comes over and looks at the ferry for a minute maybe two. He then gets back on the bike and drives away. Why did the cameras go to him? Is he important? Then the ferry blows up.

Question if the man on the bridge was the bomber why did he leave? If he wasn't going to watch what was he doing there at all? Not logical!

A policeman comes to investigate. He tries to ring his partner. We then hear a moblie phone ring on one of the dead bodies. Is it the partner? Was he on the ferry?

We learn the partner started his holiday on Monday. It is now 'Fat' Tuesday. Why would the policeman ring his partner in the 'middle' of a case? The partner is on hoilday and not coming to the scene. Again not logical!

Our dectetive is called to view another body burned by the ferry blast. But it turns out it was found ten minutes before the ferry blew up at 10.50 a.m. It is the body of a young beautiful coloured girl.

We see a new man come on the scene. He is with a new section of crime scene investigation. Our main investigator is told within 24 hours that this section can 'bend' time and view the scene 4 days and 6 hours in the past.

The dectective believes the young girl is the answer to the ferry blast. So the section begins viewing her. The 4 days and 6 hours means we are seeing the girl on Saturday morning. We hear her ex ask her to sell the car. The earliest she cou;d have put the ad in the paper is Sunday.

But the biggest problem I had with this movie was the phone call by the bomber. He makes it Sunday night to buy the girl's car. The section is able to trace it and obtain photos of the suspect. Using these photos they scan the camera footage of the ferry terminal and find the suspect did a recon early Monday morning.

They send a message back through time to the dectective's desk on the Sunday night, but he has just had an argument with his partner and leaves. It is the partner who reads the message and goes to the dock. He approaches the suspect in the car. The only person around at that hour in the early morning and asks him to step out of the car. He is shot throught the car door by the suspect.

On Thursday the investigator arrests and interviews the suspect. He states he had to buy a new car because of the bullet holes. The girl would not have died if the policeman had not been there. There it is! The bullet holes occurred Monday morning. He made the call to buy the car on Sunday night.

The next thing. The suspect takes the wounded officer 'home' and shots him and then burns the body. We assumed to put it in the boot of the car with the explosives. It might look like just another victim of the fire. Hence the phone ringing!!!

However he burns the girl alive and when asked why says he couldn't shot her because when they found the bullet they would know she wasn't killed in the blast! So why burn the officer's body?

Then the dectective finds the body of his parnter in a 'shark' tank. A pefect arm floating in the water. Not a burn mark in sight. Strange that the shark ate everything else but the unburned arm. After all it is four days since he was killed. So again I ask why burn the body if he was just going throw it in the shark tank?

Was the ringing phone just a red herring?

The ending was logical. After all you couldn't very well have two of the same person living his life, now could you?

I liked it but as I said the inconsitency was off putting.