A domestic terrorist blows up a ferry boat filled with 500 passengers. Denzel Washington plays Doug Carlin, the ATF agent assigned to investigate, and before long strange things begin to happen. For one thing, a woman's body washes ashore and is found before the explosion, though she's got traces of the explosive on her. Carlin is added to a team of scientists and FBI agents who have a big view screen that they tell him is filled with images from various satellites arranged into streaming video. All the images are a bit over four days old, and they can't be reversed or paused (they can be recorded, though). Carlin is bothered by the fact that there's also audio, and before long he learns the truth of what's going on.That's about all that can be revealed without telling you more than you need to know if you plan to see the movie. Let me just add that things blow up real good, there's romance, there's gunplay, and there are car chases that threaten to kill more people than the explosion. Jerry Bruckheimer is the producer, and Tony Scott is the director, so you'd expect those things, but it's got a lot of quiet moments, and the cast is uniformly good. Check it out.
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