All time-travel movies unravel into nonsense at some point and I don't care. If time travel is possible, it's impossible to know what's going to happen next, and it gives the characters something interesting to talk about: the method, physics and ethics of time travel. As a person with wide-ranging movie taste, I highly recommend Deja Vu. I love watching a good, fast-paced thriller and being distracted from the details that could drive me crazy about it. Every character had something interesting to contribute to the story, and they made me feel like the things on screen might really be happening, right now. After all, if there is a team of time-travelling cops who go back into the past and change things, it could be happening right now and we would never know; we would never meet them, assuming thier efforts always brought us back to a time before we needed their intervention (and they would then only exist in some sort of parallel universe able to intersect with ours).
This might sound silly, but it's exactly why I like every sci-fi/fantasy movie I do. The Nevending Story, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Labyrinth, Stargate, The Fifth Element, Total Recall: they all explore either the power of human imagination or the possibilities that could be in store through sheer effort or advances in technology, and they all center around a single character who takes a chance in realizing those possibilities. Sometimes, when I feel like nothing ever changes and people will never change, watching a movie that's beyond possibility gives a tiny little hope of something better in store.
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