I felt like I'd seen this before

Déjà Vu brings Denzel "Get your f$@#in' hands off me" Washington, determined ATF agent and crime scene analyzer savant, face to face with Jim "Jesus" Caviezel, a really, really bad guy here...possibly as far as one can get from his portrayal of Jesus.

The movie opens with a ferry boat in Mississippi exploding, killing hundreds. Denzel's on the scene and on the case in short order, piecing together the many parts of this puzzle. His expert abilities are identified early on by Val Kilmer who just happens to be a guy working on a top secret project involving the manipulation of time. We are of course told may "rules" about such experiments. We can look backward, but cannot alter anything, our actions are not detected by people in the past...that sort of business. Are these rules actually true, or just guesses??? But wait, far worse than hundreds dying on the ferry is the death of a rather attractive woman. This gets Denzel extra motivated, and the hunt is on for the bad ferry boat blower-upper-guy and also for some way to save the fair maiden.

I seem to have made the plot sound pretty hokey, but don't be fooled by my literary ineptitude. This was a pretty good movie. The way they bring the mystery together is pretty interesting to watch and the acting's pretty good to boot.