A movie with a time machine that is being used to stop a crime [closed]

It's a Hollywood movie.I saw it five or six years ago, and now I don't remember its name or cast.

The plot was something like this: there is a department with a time machine. They use this machine to go back in time and stop a crime before it happens, as they knew where the crime scene was. They send their man (a cop) to the crime scene just before the time of the crime and stop it to from happening. There's a limited time frame, and as soon as the time frame is over, he automatically goes back to the place/time where he started.

I remember one scene in which he had been sent to a kind of forest, and there was a group of bad guys with a female hostage, and the back office team could see what was going on in there.

One more thing: the movie is not Minority Report, Source Code, or Timecop. Please help me with this.

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Best Answer

I was just looking for a movie that has the same details... I was pretty sure it had Denzel Washington so I checked his list of works. Are you thinking of the movie "Deja Vu"?

IMDB Description:

A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families was blown up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit, one that uses spacefolding technology to directly look back a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: could they use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the bombing?