Deja Vu
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Movie Reviews of Deja Vu
Movie Review: Dissapointing!
Summary: 2 Stars
I love Stephen Dillane which is why I picked this movie. His performance was very good but the overall movie was weird and jerky. The "no script" thing shows how important a script is. I hope the director bagged that idea after this movie. It is painfully apparent when Stephen Dillanes character runs into Victoria Foyt's character at the house in London, she just keeps saying "what are you doing here?" and Dillane doesn't respond. The bedtime conversations between the old couple that owns the house are just plain weird and completely irrelevant. I agree with the other reviewer that Victoria Foyt's character comes off incredibly whiney! The other story lines - Vanessa Redgraves - would have meaning if they were in turn experiencing some sort of Deja Vu but they don't. I would pass on this movie, this director and certainly Victoria Foyt.Movie Review: the lead actress is a holy terror....a test of endurance...
Summary: 2 Stars
the concept is lovely...some of the dialogue is actually literate and smart...but the lead actress, as mentioned by so many others, is so unrelentingly whiny and irritating you can barely look at the screen when she is on...i'm watching the vhs version right now as i type and find the movie is more palatable if i can type and watch together to dissipate the really annoying stuff. okay, i'm also watching the clock at the same time because i want to see how it ends but wonder if i can bear the whole thing. my god, what a difference a lead actress with acting ability would have made. the lead actor is so subtle and lovely you can't imagine how he ended up playing against her.Movie Review: Less than it could have been.
Summary: 2 Stars
After the terrific reviews, I had expected better. The Idea is indeed a good one, but the lead actress is... awfull (I'm sorry to say it, but there it is.) She is whiny, complaining, selfish, and just generally irritating.
While watching the movie, I just kept wondering why any of these people would want to spent time with her, let alone, seek her out or leave their wife for her.
To say something good about the film, the filming locations (Paris, Cliffs of Dover, etc.) were excellent and beautiful. And the rest of the cast could act and was wonderful!
Movie Review: What was Dillane thinking when he took this role?
Summary: 1 Stars
This viewer came away from this movie with the idea that Victoria Foyt and her husband must have been very generous with the cash to purchase such great actors for such a silly little movie. A check of Victoria Foyt's "acting" credits at IMDb shows that she hasn't been in any "real" movies, only those that she puts on herself. Foyt can't act her way out of a wet paper bag, and repetition and loud lines don't compensate for a lack of talent when supposedly working extemporaneously. I love Dillane's work, and to give him credit, he did his best to stay professional in this odd story. His best scene, though, was the one with the doorway, when he could just act, and not have to (one imagines) suppress winces at how awful it must have been to work with Foyt.
I do like that Vanessa Redgrave and her mother Rachel Kempson together, but they didn't have anything to sink their teeth into. Anna Massey is wonderful wherever she is. But she was wasted here.
Jun 27, 2010: Author's note. A one-star rating on this review is not unexpected or in any way dismaying. This film has been adopted by a lunatic fringe touch-feely group (I can't be bothered to look them up, but a Google search on this film will let you back-track to them) that gives away free DVDs of the film to members who join. It's just the silliest thing you won't waste your time on, and again, I'm sorry they managed to fool so many really good actors into joining this enterprise.
Movie Review: Deja Vu
Summary: 1 Stars
Waited a year for this great movie to come out in DVD letterbox (widescreen)...what happened? Normal aspect ratio cuts off people at the edges! When a conservation is going on with facial expressions you miss alot. I'm disappointed! I'm sure the director/producer knows what I'm talking about.