deja-vu

Reunited with director Tony Scott for the third time, Denzel Washington plays a New Orleans ATF agent brought in to investigate the bombing of a car ferry. A shadowy FBI agent  played by Val Kilmer introduces him to the latest surveillance technology, which can look in detail at the events of exactly four and a half days ago (no, don’t ask me). The movie then becomes a combination of romance, police procedural and time/space paradox story, all filmed with Scott’s usual over-cranked style. As with Man On Fire, there’s a terrific score by Harry Gregson-Williams and inventive visuals courtesy...

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Long-time readers will know that I’m a big fan of German director Tom Tykwer, who has previously given us such gems as Run Lola Run and Heaven. I’m less of a fan of Patrick Suskind’s gimmicky scent-based novel, which strikes me as a strange choice for  Tykwer’s first big-budget movie, especially given that previous attempts by more established directors like Scorsese, Kubrick, Ridley Scott and Tim Burton have all floundered. Undeterred by this, and by the lack of smell-o-vision cinemas in which to present this experience, Tykwer goes for  loads of close-ups of nostrils, which isn’t the most enticing...

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Originally titled Turistas, this was retitled Paradise Lost for its UK cinema release. It’s the cautionary tale of a group of young and under-dressed backpackers who end up marooned in the Brazilian jungle. After a bit of wandering around in nice scenery, it all gets nasty  enough to make you cancel that trip to Rio and go to Skegness instead, as it turns into a cross between Wish You Were Here and a ‘70s Philippino mad doctor slasher movie (come on, I know you’ve seen a few). I suspect that some scenes, and one in particular, have been added...

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