Déjà Vu - a race against time

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Movie
German title Déjà Vu - a race against time
Original title Déjà-vu
Deja Vu Logo.svg
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Tony Scott
script Bill Marsilii
Terry Rossio
production Jerry Bruckheimer
music Jared Lee Gosselin
Harry Gregson-Williams
camera Paul Cameron
cut Jason Hellmann
Chris Lebenzon
occupation
synchronization

Déjà Vu - race against time is an American action thriller from Tony Scott from the year 2006 . The joint production by Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films had its world premiere on November 20, 2006 in New York . Germany started on December 27, 2006.

action

After a devastating explosion on a ferry in New Orleans as a result of an attack, the experienced ATF agent Doug Carlin is summoned to the scene of the accident to secure evidence. As part of the investigation, a female corpse is fished out of the water, which is initially believed to be a victim of the attack because of her burns. However, Carlin quickly realizes that the victim Claire was apparently murdered before the attack. He comes to the conclusion that Claire's killer must have known about the attack, as he tried to make his victim Claire look like a victim of the attack. Therefore, the agent focuses on finding Claire's killer and thus the assassin.

In the further course of the investigation, an FBI special unit approaches Carlin, which works with a modern surveillance system. With this machine it is possible to create a wormhole in a limited observation area, with which one can look into the past around four days and six hours. The perspective can be changed and what is seen can be recorded, but it is impossible to fast forward or rewind in time. Only later does Carlin realize that the machine can change the past and even objects such as a sheet of paper with a note or even people can be sent back to the past.

The special unit, led by Agent Pryzwarra, finds the assassin with the support of Carlin and the machine, but leaves it at an arrest. After the perpetrator confesses, the case is closed for the FBI. But that is not enough for Carlin, because he also wants to save the victims of the attack and above all Claire. The only way he sees it is to throw yourself back in time with the invention and prevent the attack. The scientists advise against it, as it could die in the transmission. Although he immediately put on his rubber gloves as soon as he entered Claire's apartment, his forensics colleagues found his fingerprints in the apartment, from which he concludes that he must have been in her apartment before the murder of Claire and the transfer of his body in the past will work. Since by the electromagnetic pulse , all brain and muscle activities are set the machine will be programmed as destination in the "past" a hospital emergency room and on his chest of the lettering "revive me" ( eng. "Revive me again") is written. The clinical staff successfully perform the resuscitation measures.

Immediately after waking, Carlin escapes in an ambulance that he has confiscated with an equally confiscated pistol . He drives to the hideaway of the assassin, whom he had previously seen in his original “present” from which he comes. He manages to free Claire shortly before her murder, while the assassin is convinced that the two were killed in a gas explosion he caused.

So that Carlin can bandage the gunshot wound he suffered during the rescue operation, the two drive to Claire's apartment.

Carlin realizes in the apartment that everything looks exactly as it did when he was examined immediately after the attack. He realizes that he has not changed the past so far, so Claire is still in danger, and therefore takes her to the ferry to defuse the bomb. He tells Claire to alert the guards as soon as the ferry leaves. However, this plan does not work because the assassin notices his own car, which Carlin has stolen, and therefore returns to the ferry. Claire sees the assassin on the ferry and jumps on board at the last second before casting off.

Claire is taken by surprise by the assassin and comes under his control again. Shortly afterwards, Carlin finds the two, with a wild shooting erupts in which various police officers and security guards on the ferry are killed. Carlin tries a trick: he removes the magazine from his pistol, the slide of which is locked in the open position, but manually pushes a cartridge into the chamber . He surrenders to the assassin with the supposedly unloaded weapon and engages him in a conversation. Because the assassin is ready to die, he prompts Claire with a sign to drive towards the car. Distracted by this, he ignores Carlin for a moment, who shoots him. Carlin and Claire are both in the car now and have only two minutes to defuse the bomb.

Since nobody from the police knows that Carlin is with the ATF, both are now mistaken for criminals themselves and cannot defuse the bomb. You therefore decide to drive off the ship by car. You then plunge into the Mississippi . Claire escapes from the car and escapes the explosion. However, Carlin is unable to get out of the vehicle and he is killed in the explosion.

When Claire sits on land wrapped in a blanket, Carlin, who is responsible for the investigation, appears. In the explosion, the Carlin from the future died, but not the one from the past, so there was a brief coexistence of two Carlins. Since Carlin has no idea who Claire is at this point, he does not understand that she greets and seems to know him by his first name.

At the end of the film, the two of them drive away in his car and she repeats the words the future Carlin had said to her in her apartment: “What if you had to explain the most important thing in the world to someone, but he believes you not? ” and the answer of the other person is exactly the same: “ I would try ” .

background

The film was shot with digital cinema cameras on HDCAM .

With a budget of about 75 million US dollars he played worldwide over 180 million US dollars.

Thematically related films, which are about time travel to solve or prevent crimes, are

synchronization

The German synchronous processing produced the Film & TV sync after the dialogue book by Klaus Bickert on.

actor speaker role
Denzel Washington Leon Boden ATF agent Doug Carlin
Paula Patton Tanja Geke Claire Kuchever
Val Kilmer David Nathan FBI agent Andrew Pryzwarra
James Caviezel Nicolas Boell Carroll Oerstadt
Bruce Greenwood Oliver Stritzel chief FBI agent Jack McCready
Mark Phinney Lutz Schnell Agent Donnelly
Rich Hutchman Olaf Reichmann Agent Stalhuth
Ted Manson Peter Gröger old man
Adam Goldberg Dietmar miracle Alexander Denny
Brian Howe Frank-Otto Schenk Coroner
Elden Henson Dennis Schmidt-Foss Gunnars
Matt Craven Till Hagen ATF agent Larry Minuti
Enrique Castillo Detlef Bierstedt Mr. Kuchever
John McConnell Roland Hemmo Sheriff Bob Reed
Scott Alan Smith Frank Muth Traumatologist
Nadia Shazana Ulrike Huebschmann Nurse in Traumatology

Reviews

“Exciting and effective, but quite naively staged fantasy adventure. The desire to turn back time vaguely points to trauma in US society. "

- Lexicon of international film

“The reference to the World Trade Center attacks is as clear as it is empty. The film then enumerates the other national traumas of the past few years in quick succession, but beckons with lots of fence posts behind which nothing can be seen. [...] Director Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, both known for an opulent smack cinema of spectacular surfaces, are not the men from whom one would expect to come to terms with these events. 'Déjà Vu' does not even attempt to contradict this impression, but it also cannot decide on the popcorn event. "

- Dietmar Kammerer : the daily newspaper

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Déjà Vu - Race against Time . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2006 (PDF; test number: 108 154 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Déjà Vu - a race against time . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Filming & Production. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 11, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Déjà Vu - a race against time. In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved February 11, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b Déjà Vu - Race against time. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on August 15, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Déjà Vu - a race against time. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 11, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ^ Dieter Kammerer: Snow White in New Orleans. In: the daily newspaper . December 28, 2006, accessed February 11, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Déjà Vu - a race against time. In: German film and media evaluation . Retrieved February 11, 2015 .