Deja Vu
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: November 22, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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19
Mixed:
11
Negative:
2
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83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It's an ingratiating star vehicle and elegant entertainment. Read full review
80
VarietyStaff (Not credited)
Cinema's natural felicities for time and action have seldom felt as beautifully dovetailed. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Unlike the last Scott-Washington matchup, "Man on Fire," Deja Vu boasts a muscular, fast-forward story that won't be overwhelmed by Scott's need for speed in the form of rapid cuts and all that visual fusion that have become his stylistic trademark. Here, the approach is perfectly suited to the picture's time-shifting, multitasking structure. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
What is interesting is not how little sense Déjà Vu makes but how little that matters. If you want your films to add up logically, you're welcome to take your calculator somewhere else. But if you do, you will be missing out on some first-class genre fun. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Denzel Washington plays Denzel Washington, good cop. This isn't a great performance, but Washington wasn't brought in to show off his acting chops. Read full review
75
PremiereStephen Saito
Although the science fiction element had the potential to drag the story down, it's kept to a minimum and left somewhat buried in techno jargon. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
It's an almost overwhelmingly professional picture, murderously fast, slick and full of outlandish notions, painstakingly realized. And it's also surprisingly satisfying -- thanks to Washington, a good cast, Tony Scott's swift direction and that unyielding professionalism. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
An utterly preposterous but entertaining sci-fi action brain-bender. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
This seemingly simple thriller has two subtexts, one more overt than the other, that should give pause to people who claim Hollywood is always too left-wing. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
Starts out a lot like an expensive-looking episode of "CSI" before morphing into a solidly entertaining time-traveling romance. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
You aren't likely to see a more ludicrous movie for the rest of the year. But rarely has such ludicrousness been used to pay tribute to a town in need of love. Déjà Vu is generic enough to have been filmed anywhere. But it happens to be set in post-Katrina New Orleans. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
This may be the first crime thriller to explicitly utilize superstring theory but, in its woozy romanticism, it's not that far removed from this year's other time-warp movie, "The Lake House," about two lovers living in parallel years - or "Frequency," which starred Jim Caviezel as a good guy. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
The movie's biggest charm is its unpredictable, offbeat tone. Read full review
70
NewsweekDavid Ansen
It's preposterous, but never dull: Scott whips the action into a taut, tasty lather. Read full review
70
Village VoiceNathan Lee
Déjà Vu isn't as sleek a genre pleasure as "Enemy of the State," but it does have a freaky little trick up its sleeve. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Déjà Vu is pretty dazzling, as action adventures go, even when it's wildly, almost defiantly, implausible. Movies can make us semi-believe the damnedest things.
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Déjà Vu has enough style and forward (or is it backward) momentum to viewers aroused. It's only after you leave the theatre that your head starts to throb. Read full review
67
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The film is tense and engrossing. But it lacks exactly what the title advertises: the sense of inexplicable familiarity that should haunt you as the story unfolds and leave you all a-tingle when it ends. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerDavid Hiltbrand
Like "Man on Fire," the previous collaboration between Washington and Scott, Déjà Vu is stunning but poorly paced, a film that manages to be both captivating and frustrating. Read full review
60
EmpireAdam Smith
Nobody does vapid bollocks as enjoyably as Tony Scott, and while this isn't as inventive as "Man On Fire" or as compelling as "Crimson Tide," it's still the right side of dumb. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Rarely have Bruckheimer and Scott been so upfront about insulting people's intelligence. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Déjà Vu is watchable trash, meticulously edited in Scott's skip-stutter style, but there's something ultimately unsatisfying about a thriller that more or less makes up its rules as it goes along. Read full review
50
USA TodayScott Bowles
Déjà Vu cannot escape the weight of its murky science, action-film formula and preposterous ending. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The SF hardware (enjoyable) and thriller mechanics (mechanical) of this Jerry Bruckheimer slam-banger don't mesh very well with reflection, and the action trumps most evidence of thought. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
It takes chutzpah to title this movie Déjà Vu; every scene in it rings a bell. Certainly, I had just seen the same affable-righteous performance from Washington in Spike Lee's "Inside Man." Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
A needlessly complicated and confusing thriller. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
To believe Déjà Vu, or even to pretend you can actually follow it, you'll need heavy-duty gear -- harness belt, spelunking helmet, a great deal of rope, PowerBars for sustenance. A little coffee wouldn't hurt, either. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Deja Vu becomes increasingly sillier. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
In brief, I fell cheated by these clever, narrative-disrupting films. They seem to miss the point. After all, every fiction film is magical--an artifice devoted to “What if?” Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The joke of it is, for all the pricey bangs and booms, the whiplash cinematography and the editing that turns film space into cubistic tableaux, a Bruckheimer-and-Scott partnership is only as good as its screenplay, and this one is a mess. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Definition of redundant: A formulaic Hollywood pic that calls itself Déjà Vu. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
After 9/11, few of us look at terrorist acts casually. It's insulting to watch this grandiloquent pornography, using shock value and Hollywood cliche to evoke poignancy. Read full review
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