 | Studios: | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release: | November 22, 2006 | |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller | |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images and some sensuality. |
Truth: I went to see this movie because Denzel Washington is in it. The trailer I saw before gave me little to work on apart from knowing it's an action/thriller movie.
Surprise, surprise. They threw in a bit of science fiction to the story.
Terrorists have detonated a bomb, killing hundreds. No one knows the whereabouts of the people who did the act. The only lead is the dead body of a woman found at the scene but who had died hours earlier than the bomb explosion.
There is an existing technology that opens a window in time - allowing the government scientists to watch - live - the events that led to explosion. ATF agent Doug Carlin has been invited to join the investigation, believing that the scenes he is watching are from film recorded from satellite cameras. Later, he finds out that he is watching the last 24 hours all over again... as they happen.
Carlin deduces correctly that the same machine can propel him back in time... allowing him to stop the bomb and save the woman with whom he has fallen in love with while watching her live her last few hours on earth. Worse, he realizes that he had actually attempted to do that before and tried to leave clues to his present self ... and had he done some things differently and heeded the clues, he could have stopped the bomb from exploding.
Overriding protests from the team, Carlin gets into the machine and jumps back in time to once again try to be the hero. He succeeds this time, saving hudreds including the woman he has fallen in love with. The price however is his life.
As the woman is fished out of the water, this time alive, she meets the present Carlin who does not know her but feels as if he has seen her before.
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