{"id":1264,"date":"2011-03-31T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2011-03-31T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:59:15","slug":"review-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Review: SOURCE CODE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\u201cSource Code\u201d is a unique time travel movie that posits the question: if you only had less than 8 minutes to live, what would you do with those minutes? Coulter Stevens aims to do a lot with that time\u2014fall in love and even save a city from a terrorist.<\/p>\n

The ambitious and sharp \u201cSource Code\u201d isn\u2019t the movie you think it is. Sure, there\u2019s action and there\u2019s romantic chemistry as Jake Gyllenhaal bats his eyes at Michelle Monaghan. But it\u2019s a movie that plays with reality intelligently with \u201cInception\u201d like skill. And while it doesn\u2019t have the same epic gravitas that marked \u201cInception\u201d as one of 2010\u2019s best films, \u201cSource Code\u201d is arguably a tighter and more efficient movie that could play better to a mass audience.<\/p>\n

In \u201cCode,\u201d a soldier, Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal), wakes up finding himself literally implanted into the body of someone else while riding on a doomed train. The train is doomed to explode in less than 8 minutes. His job isn\u2019t necessarily to disarm the bomb and save the passengers but, rather, to find clues leading to the identity of the bomber. Because, you see, the train Colter\u2019s on has already exploded\u2014it happened in the past and Colter is reliving those events in what feels like a very concrete reality.<\/p>\n

While he\u2019s on the train, Colter meets Christina (Michelle Monaghan). Apparently, the body Colter is inhabiting knows this attractive woman but the two are not romantically involved. Of course, Colter finds himself drawn to her. Could she hold the key to this unraveling mystery? He fails to get the necessary answers in the first 8 minutes. No matter, something called the \u201csource code\u201d can be re-explored with the punch of a computer button back at headquarters. Colter better buckle his seatbelt, he\u2019s in for a rough ride through multiple virtual realities.<\/p>\n

\u201cSource Code\u201d comes to us from director Duncan Jones, who last delivered the intellectual science fiction film \u201cMoon.\u201d That carefully constructed movie took place on the title floating orb and had Sam Rockwell battling multiple versions of himself. Like \u201cSource Code,\u201d \u201cMoon\u201d raised questions in a different way about the nature of reality. It left us in a quandary spurring dense discussions thereafter. While \u201cSource Code\u201d is much more action driven and will please a wider audience, both films share a clever intellect that is refreshing. Honestly, when I watched the trailer for \u201cCode,\u201d I feared that Hollywood had gotten to Jones and he had made yet another action driven summer popcorn flick. But thankfully, that\u2019s not so, and \u201cSource Code\u201d is a slick, exciting, efficient film worthy of praise.<\/p>\n

But what to do with those fleeting 8 minutes? In our reality it is but 480 seconds. And not many of us could do much during that time. But as Colter Stevens learns, in the \u201cSource Code\u201d 8 minutes can be a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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