What happens when you combine thomas the tank engine with terrorist plans and a touch of some very bizarre time travel? You get Source Code, the high tech train ride that has you on the edge of your seat from when you get your ticket to when you get off at your station. I found this movie to be a mind bending adventure from start to finish and was not disappointed when I walked out while the credits rolled.
A decorated army pilot who served in Afghanistan awakens to find himself on a train heading for Chicago that is going to blow. After the blow Captain Colter Stevens wakes up inside a bitter cold chamber to find himself under there service of Source Code; a project that allows him to enter the last eight minuets of someone else's mind to prevent the accident. As he keeps going back to the 8 min he keeps learning more and that prepares him for the final confrontation. It defiantly is an action and science fiction fusion that is in a class by itself. When these two genres meet, the action almost always overtakes the science causing the smart people in the audience to walk out expecting a movie with brains when what they got was explosions going off for two hours without a good enough explanation. Source Code, is actually a much better blend of the two because it is able to balance itself out without becoming overproduced or turning into a dull lifeless science documentary starring my old science teacher from high school.
The theme of Source Code is repetition. Most of the time whenever repetition happens in fiction and sometimes non-fiction it wears itself out and people loose attention/interest very quickly. With a movie like this they do repeat themselves bu they do it in a way that it doesnt become boring or cheesy. Whenever they do it in this movie they showcase it so that the main character played by Jake Gyllenhaal is given a new motivation in the mystery ever time he makes a mistake and has to go back.
Speaking Jake Gyllenhaal, I really like him as an action star. He is very smart, young and full of energy. His intelligence makes him very gifted in crafting together something smart and suspenseful for the audience to see without turning it into a boring two hour Tom Cruise movie.
My only complaint about source code was that I found it to go a bit under the line for an action/science fiction film when it came to the length. An action movie usually runs for at least two hours (more or less) and I thought they could have added a bit more to the story but I still thought it was a good enough movie.
Source Code is a great movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. I enjoyed it, my fellow critics enjoyed it, my friends enjoyed it, my dad enjoyed. So see it its a really good action film.
My Rating: 3.5/4 Shamrocks
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