Deja Vu (2006)

12 quotes

★★★★☆

(12 votes)

Directed by: Tony Scott

Starring: Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel, Paula Patton

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-fi, Thriller

Add something

Movie Quote Quiz

Doug Carlin: I'll speak slow, so those of you with Ph.D.'s in the room can understand.

Doug Carlin: For all of my career, I've been trying to catch people after they do something horrible. For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody before they do something horrible, all right? Can you understand that?

Denny: I knew I picked a bad week to quit snorting hash.

Agent Pryzwarra: It's not your fault she dies.
Doug Carlin: Well, that's one theory.

Denny: Awww... That was tender. I wish I had someone.

Doug Carlin: He's gonna kill her. In twelve hours, he's gonna kill her.
Jack McCready: He killed her four days ago! You were at the funeral, what's wrong with you?

Denny: I need more cowbell.

Denny: You know you don't have to do this.
Doug Carlin: What if I already have?

Harbor Cop: Put your hands in the air and step out of the vehicle now.
Doug Carlin: We get out now, everybody dies.
Harbor Cop: You have until the count of three.
Doug Carlin: Hit it.

Agent Pryzwarra: We've got some unique time constraints.

Doug Carlin: Is she alive or is she dead?

Doug Carlin: This is not surveillance. This is the actual past.
Agent Pryzwarra: Yes.

More for Deja Vu

Mistakes

Factual error: When the Bronco is underwater at the end of the movie, Claire's hands are tied to the steering wheel. Doug rips the steering wheel off. Anyone who has worked on cars knows you need a puller to get a steering wheel off, you can't just rip it by hand.

More mistakes in Deja Vu

Trivia

Trivia: At the time of the filming, the St. Charles Streetcars were not running 100%. When they show the Canal St Car, one sense that shows the car running on the right side tracks toward the camera, it's actually on the wrong side. Later when he's going to her apartment, one shot shows the streetcar running on the right side tracks (as the norm), and the trolley poles are up. Later when he gets off the car, it's on the opposite side, wrong direction, rear pole is down, and he gets out through the rear door as if it was main door.

norbertdx

More trivia for Deja Vu

Questions

Question: In the initial (or present) timeline, Claire dies; the ferry blows up; Doug is recruited by the FBI and subsequently find himself at the terrorists' camp where an ambulance is sitting in the destroyed building. The presence of the ambulance suggests a future Doug had to come back in time, but then Claire would have been saved. What's up with that?

Foot2cranium

Answer: Another version of Doug tried to save her but he failed. He realised this and it was shown by his last second decision on the ferry.

Answer: Flawed theory. Doug would have to be recruited previously for that to happen. The time frame for look back most likely would not line up.

Doug from previous timeline failed to rescue Claire. We know what happened to Claire. But the question is where is that "previous" Doug? My guess: a human that was being eaten by croc that current Doug sees was the previous Doug.

That doesn't work. The hand in the alligator pit was white.

Previous Doug died while trying to disarm the bomb. He failed to disarm it in time and was killed when the bomb exploded. Remember at the beginning of the film when Doug arrives at the site, and he's looking at the bodies of the victims in the body bags? He hears a phone ringing and assumes it's his because it has the same ring tone as his. It's not his phone that's ringing but past Doug's phone. The one that went back, failed and died. Previous Doug is now in one of the body bags on the shore.

The other version of Doug died on the ferry in the beginning of the movie. He hears his own cell phone ringtone coming from one of the body bags and looks at his own phone because he thinks it's his.

Doug's phone didn't go back in time. There may be multiple copies of Doug, but there's only one phone.

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.