Standing on the banks of the Mississippi amid the carefully scattered wreckage, not a severed body part in view, he zeroes in on a speck of evidence that would have led straight to the killer if the credited screenwriters, Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio, hadnвЂ™t decided to kink up their terrorism plot with a beautiful dead woman and some nutty speculative fiction.Дenzel Washington as a federal agent brought in to investigate a ferryboat explosion in New Orleans.

Graced with almost uncanny powers of detection, Doug is the kind of investigator who sniffs the air, sifts the earth and all but walks on water to determine who did what, where, when and why. Washington rolls up as Doug Carlin, an agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The dead have just started to be stacked up on the pier when Mr. At once awesome and absurd, the explosion doesnвЂ™t just rip bodies discreetly apart but also shreds the film, because nothing else in вЂњDГ©jГ VuвЂќ has been created with such loving attention to detail. One minute a grandfatherly type in a veteranвЂ™s cap is sitting with a small child in his lap the next, a sailor is soaring through the air, his snowy white uniform cutting a stark picture against the fiery orange backdrop. In this case, that something is: the 543 men, women and children, including hundreds of sailors who, having gathered aboard an enormous New Orleans ferry, are blown to pieces almost as it pushes off. It doesnвЂ™t take long before the filmmakers uncork their signature move and blow something up. ThatвЂ™s especially true when this influential hitmaker (his small-screen credits include the вЂњCSIвЂќ franchise) teams up with the film director Tony Scott, with whom he has made six blockbusters, including the 1980s pop sensation вЂњTop Gun.вЂќ Now comes вЂњDГ©jГ Vu,вЂќ an action flick with Denzel Washington in which the gaudy pyrotechnics are nowhere near as jaw-dropping as the screenplay that name-checks not one, not two, but three national tragedies against a backdrop of red blood, white uniforms and blue-sky improbability.

In the cinema of big bangs, few bangs are bigger than those generated by the producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

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