Saw Deja Vu on Friday. Eagerly anticipated after the teaser trailer due to my well known time travel fascination, but went in skeptical based on the big budget blockbuster vibe and a feeling that the full trailer gave it all away. (Both trailers are here.)
My thought process during and after went something like this:
-Loved the movie while I was watching it, but thought the ending was lame, too Hollywood, and obviously a rewrite.
-Started to deconstruct the time travel in my head and felt it started to fall apart and not make any sense.
-Picked apart the time travel a little bit further and suddenly realized the underlying story and plotting was absolutely brilliant (including the ending, but excluding the laser pointer), and especially impressive given the big budgetness of it.
-Probably the best non-indie time travel flick since 12 Monkeys and BTTF, and even holds it's own against Primer and Donnie Darko.
The other tangential thought I kept having during the movie was this:
How the heck did Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives end up as part of the same government agency? Wikipedia to the rescue.
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