A source code is computer language, deep computer language, far beyond anything I've ever learned. After seeing "Source Code," which opens today, I know that it has to do with Jake Gyllenhaal and a bomb plot on a commuter train, and the chance to go back in time, sometimes as yourself, sometimes as someone else, but in eight-minute segments.
Any questions?
Good.
Duncan Jones, who directed the outstanding "Moon" a couple of years ago, repeats with a fascinating tale. Gyllenhall, as Army Capt. Colter Stevens, is on a train entering Chicago. People talk to him, and seem to know him, but when he looks in a bathroom mirror, it's not his face. Suddenly, a train on the adjacent track, traveling in the opposite direction, blows up.
Stevens is next in his flight suit, talking to a mission control operator (Vera Farmiga) and he knows the answers to all her questions.
And then he's back on the train, chatting with Christina (Michelle Monaghan) and realizing that he has to figure out who is trying to kill him and his fellow-passengers. He also realizes that he has only eight minutes in whch to figure things out.
Ben Ripley's original screenplay makes an exciting movie. The idea of repetitiveness in a science fiction is not new, but Ripley and Jones handle it extremely well. It flattens out a little at the end, but that's not enough to detract from a first-rate tale, well acted by all hands.
Source Code opens today at several theaters
—Joe
Comments
One response
You know, among all the reviews I’ve read about Source Code, the common positive thing was that director Duncan Jones did a great job in telling the story. Actually, I made the same remark in my own Source Code movie review. Will you please check it out? Thanks!
http://lifefromheadtofoot.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-source-code.html