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.
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