Source Code Review

Source Code is one of those movies that's actually more original than it seems. It goes in a direction you wouldn't expect it to go. I was excited about this movie when I saw the trailer because it had an interesting plot, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Duncan Jones as the director who made the 2009 critically acclaimed Sci-Fi, "Moon". The thing is that you see more than what you believe you're gonna see. Did this movie meet my expectations? Here's my review:


Jake Gyllenhaal plays a guy who at first wakes up in the body of an unknown man on a train. When he tries to remember how he ended up in the situation, the train all the sudden blows up then he wakes up again in his own body strapped to a machine. A female captain in the military (played by Vera Farmiga) tells him that he's strapped to this machine called Source Code. She explains briefly that it's a device which can send someone back to an event of the past only its a simulation, not the REAL past. It is a past that Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) already visited once of the bombing of a train. She says his mission is to keep going back to that same event every 8 minutes to try and find the bomber on that train. He has to do it before 6 hours hits or else another bombing would happen from that same bomber who bombed the train. 


Now as confusing as that sounds in words, it's better if you watch the trailer. I could tell you a bit more of the plot knowing it seems unfinished, but that would just be giving away the movie almost entirely. So instead I have nothing else to mention except if I like it and why I do or don't.


I will start off by saying this is a very good movie. I really liked how well it has you hooked in like the first 5 minutes. There's not a single boring part of the movie that makes you wish it could go by faster. There's not a scene that should've been cut out because every one is completely relevant to the story. Great direction from Duncan Jones who knows what shots to use when it comes to great suspense. Hitchcock would've loved it. All the cast  gave good performances. Glad to see Gyllenhaal recover from that Prince of Persia letdown of a movie. Ben Ripley's script is incredibly original and puts so much detail into replaying time over and over without any issues or flaws. From what I've heard, a lot of people have a problem with the ending, but I don't. I really liked how everything played out to the very end. I say it's worth checking out.


***1/2