Source Code

Source Code

Rating 7 out of 10

When I saw the trailer for this movie it didn't look like anything I'd want to see.  Looked to me like a guy on a train that falls in love with a stranger in eight minutes while trying to figure out who the bomber is.  Turned out that's not what it is about and it was better than I thought it would be.

Never been a big Jake Gyllenhaal fan either. Loved him in October Sky (great movie to rent!), but to me it seems like I watching someone who is acting.  In Source Code he does an okay job.  The cast is not the big deal. It's the story.

There is a secret government group that has figured out how to somehow put a military pilot into the body of a man that died when a terrorist puts a bomb in a moving train.  It's something about when you die your brain still holds the last eight minutes of your life and they figured out how to replay it.  Don't get too hung up on that.  The goal is to find out who the terrorist is as they can't stop this explosion but they know he is going to set off a dirty bomb in downtown Chicago later that day.  Time is short.

If Groundhog Day drove you crazy with them replaying the same day over and over you might want to skip this one (that would be you Gilbert Gonzales).  They put in on the train with him trying to figure out who the bad guy is.  After eight minutes they reload and put him back in to look somewhere else.  He can only go back a few times.

You have to applaud the effort even if not all of it makes sense.  The very ending had me scratching my head.  Overall it was an entertaining couple hours for a guy that is king of picking a movie apart.   Not great but good one to see on an early show of a rainy day as I did.