Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up on a commuter train heading for Chicago but the woman sitting across from him calls him Sean.
In an interesting twist on the time travel theme, Source Code is a kind of PG thriller where Stevens must relive eight minutes as Sean in order to find the bomber of the train.
At the end of his eight minutes the train will explode and Stevens returns to his own body inside the Source Code, a piece of technology being trialled for use in preventing major disasters.
It also messes with his head quite a lot - being blown up repeatedly - and trying to make sense of who he is and how he came to be inside the Code.
Everything isn't as it seems.
As he repeats his eight minutes trying to find the bomber he becomes attached to Christina (Michelle Monaghan), so much that he eventually wants to try and save her, even though he is told that he can't change the past.
We'd all love to change the past and Stevens, torn between his military training and his growing affection for Christina, is no different. He has a past that is slowly revealed and a big reason for wanting to influence it.
I loved director Duncan Jones' first film - Moon - and Source Code is a worthy follow up. A bit Groundhog Day (though not as funny!) and with clear influence from recent films like Inception, this is an entertaining film, just on 90 minutes so not overly long, and definitely worth a watch.
A 7.5 out of 10.
In an interesting twist on the time travel theme, Source Code is a kind of PG thriller where Stevens must relive eight minutes as Sean in order to find the bomber of the train.
At the end of his eight minutes the train will explode and Stevens returns to his own body inside the Source Code, a piece of technology being trialled for use in preventing major disasters.
It also messes with his head quite a lot - being blown up repeatedly - and trying to make sense of who he is and how he came to be inside the Code.
Everything isn't as it seems.
As he repeats his eight minutes trying to find the bomber he becomes attached to Christina (Michelle Monaghan), so much that he eventually wants to try and save her, even though he is told that he can't change the past.
We'd all love to change the past and Stevens, torn between his military training and his growing affection for Christina, is no different. He has a past that is slowly revealed and a big reason for wanting to influence it.
I loved director Duncan Jones' first film - Moon - and Source Code is a worthy follow up. A bit Groundhog Day (though not as funny!) and with clear influence from recent films like Inception, this is an entertaining film, just on 90 minutes so not overly long, and definitely worth a watch.
A 7.5 out of 10.
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