Source Code

This movie is An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, an ex-soldier in the US military, is locked inside a memory-retrieval program, he has no choice in being the test dummy for. There’s a lot of quantum-physics gobbledygook, but the basic drift is this: Gyllenhaal, in a sporting but thoroughly ordinary performance, wakes up on an inbound Chicago train, which explodes eight minutes later. Repeat.

Accessing the dying memory banks of one of the victims, his job is to identify who’s responsible during one of these Groundhog Day-like revisitations, and thereby stop the supposed terrorist, who appears to have been taking mad-bomber lessons from the Dennis Hopper character in Speed.

Where Source Code has the biggest problem is in its finish. The film comes to a moment which would work as a final scene, and then it bypasses that scene to go for something more complex and uplifting. Jones delivers so much of the film with tremendous confidence that it’s jarring to see him twist the narrative into knots so that the audience can leave feeling upbeat (and chances are they’ll leave confused).

Despite a slightly weak finish, Source Code is another triumph for Jones. He’s shown that he can manage a mid-budget studio film that will appeal to mainstream audiences without sacrificing the thoughtful sci-fi elements that made Moon such a breath of fresh air. Despite all good and bad about the movie the movie itself is a mind boggling one and is a treat to watch with so much dept and clarity in it which makes you think beyond imagination and above your par level. I would recommend every one to watch this movie. :)

RATING 7.5/10