Having the DVD of Source Code in hand, I sat down for a late night action film. The movie is written by Ben Ripley, directed by Duncan Jones, and stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an Army helicopter pilot, Colter Stevens, who wakes up disoriented on a train. Within the first several minutes of the movie, as Colter tries to figure out how he got on the train and the people around him, a bomb goes off destroying the train.
The story really begins there as we quickly learn that Colter is part of a government project that allows them to place a person’s consciousness into another person who recently died and experience the last 8 minutes of their life. What follows is a gripping action film with Colter bouncing between the train and current time trying to determine what happened on the train.
What I liked about the film were the nods to time travel and alternate realities. I am a big time travel fan and thought that the premise of going back and viewing/experiencing events of someone else’s life to be intriguing. The movie has several twists and turns and doesn’t hold off on giving you answers along the way. No holding off to the end for everything to be revealed all at once, there are twists and turns all throughout the film. In some cases, the trips back to the train had a Groundhog Day feel to me. As I don’t want to spoil the movie, I will stop there.
I liked Source Code and found that it was engaging and didn’t seem to have huge, gaping plot holes. Though that could be a result of watching it at Midnight. Overall, I give the film 4 Mick Happies. Definitely worth renting or getting from Netflix to watch at home.
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