Deja vu - physical or spiritual

I watched two movies recently that deal with a similar theme - if you knew something bad was going to happen before it happened, what would you do or could you do to stop it:

• Premonition with Sandra Bullock
• Deja vu with Denzel Washington

Both movies prompt the question, is everything preordained that even if you knew something was going to happen, could you do anything to stop it or in trying to stop it would your actions actually be what causes the bad thing to happen?

In one the movies precognition is spiritual or supernatural whereas the other the foresight is technical or physical, as in scientific and laws of physics.

Deja Vu was more of an action/drama whereas Premonition was more of a suspense/thriller. Both had twists at the end and if you rent the Premonition DVD, there's an alternate ending that may or may not provide more closure or just add more to the mystery and suspense.

Both were good movies, but I preferred Deja Vu to Premonition.

I won't say which is which, but when questioning whether fate or destiny exists, in one movie the actions to prevent the disaster were successful and in the other were the cause of it.