Déjà Vu (2006) - T. Scott cuts a helluva suspense-cake!

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+ Best New Orleans Movie of the Year + Best Car Chase of the Year (chase in the past scene)

The suspense-promising poster for Tony Scott's Déjà Vu

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During the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, a ferry with hundreds of passengers gets blown up by a domestic terrorist. ATF agent Doug Carlin investigates and finds a way to possibly hinder the attack from ever happening in the first place!

One of English master director Tony Scott's (The Hunger (1983)) best films, Déjà Vu is an exciting and wild film, (SPOILER especially the car chase in the past is spectacular), written by Bill Marsilii (The Wind in the Willows (announced)) and Terry Rossio (Shrek (2001)), basically around one of the oldest narrative premises in the world: Can you alter you own fate?
The time travel perspectives are intriguing and sophisticated; Scott's (and cinematographer Paul Cameron's (Collateral (2004))) images and the sound universe (score by Harry Gregson-Williams (Veronica Guerin (2003)) ) are incredibly well-made.
Denzel Washington (Flight (2012)) in the lead seems to play the character he has played a thousand times before, but he still does it well. Val Kilmer's (Heat (1995)) head has grown with the years, but he also plays well here in this exciting science fiction action-thriller.
Scott tragically ended his own life in 2012. His last film was the train-set thriller Unstoppable (2010). 

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Watch the awesome trailer for Déjà Vu here

Cost: 75 mil. $
Box office: 180.5 mil. $
= Minor flop
[Behind the scenes of this Jerry Bruckheimer production that was mostly shot on locations in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in the city, the screenwriters and Scott had fall-outs. The enormous real-life disaster came to influence the tightly scheduled film. Déjà Vu opened a disappointing #3 in the US, where it made 'just' 64 mil. $ (35 % of the total gross). It was a big hit elsewhere; in the UK, it made a hefty 4.9 mil. £.]

What do you think of Déjà Vu?
What are your favorite 3 Tony Scott films?
(Mine are The Hunger, True Romance (1993) and Déjà Vu)