The Denzel dimension

(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-03-20 09:23

Movie lovers in Beijing can enjoy a visual feast this month. Hollywood action film Chaos, horror flick Dark Waters, and old-fashioned film A Good Woman, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic play Lady Windermere's Fan are expected to draw big crowds to the city's silver screens. Another Hollywood blockbuster action-thriller Dj vu, starring Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer and Jim Caviezel, is also hotly anticipated.

As the title of the film suggests, everyone has experienced the unsettling mystery of deja vu that flash of memory when you meet someone new you feel you've known all your life or recognize a place even though you've never been there before.

The film begins with the horrific bombing of a New Orleans ferry. Investigating officer Doug Carlin uses new technology being developed by the FBI to see into the past and enter the ferry to try to divert disaster, falling in love with one of the future victims, in the process.

This action-thriller is the third film that director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington have made together. There is no doubting Scott's ability to deliver action with style, and he almost surpasses himself with Dj vu. He thrusts the audience into a very visceral reality of this unreal world of the past. Washington brings an impressive gravitas to the film, and Paula Patton brings grit to her role of damsel in distress.

Deja vu opens on March 20 at cinemas citywide. In English.