A STILL FROM THE MOVIE  | Critic's Rating: Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga Direction: Duncan Jones Genre: Sci-Fi Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes Readers Rating: |
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Taut, intelligent thriller
Story: Jake Gyllenhaal knows himself as Colter Stevens, an American Army officer who last flew helicopters in Afghanistan. But when he wakes up on a commuter train in Chicago, the lovely lady (Michelle Monaghan) sitting before him tells him he is Stevens. Eight minutes later the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in a pod in a military establishment, taking orders from officer Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) who tells him he has to go back and find who the bomber is. Can Stevens travel back in time and solve the riddle? More importantly, can he find his true identity and actually end up saving the world with a bit of time realignment?
Movie Review: Hollywood is increasingly entering interesting territory, exploring the frontiers to which the human mind can actually grow.... The quest for man's metamorphosis into superman has always been the stuff of comic book fantasy. But now, there is a whole new genre of cinema which is serenading man as superman, albeit with a scientific edge. No cape and costume fantasy needed here; just some tantalizing hypothesis about the limitless expanse of the human mind, and bingo! You and I can be invincible, immortal world saviours. Terrific thesis, isn't it?
Source Code is an extremely smart and saucy follow-up to the multiple identity maverick heroes of films like Inception and Avatar. Is Jake Gyllenhaal a US pilot in Afghanistan, a pawn in a military pod, a commoner playing vigilante, a commuter falling in love? The film explores the mind-altering realities that Jake inhabits, even as he tries to race against time, again and again, to stop a demented bomber from turning the world into rubble. And its all due to Source Code, a process where time can be tampered with, by using the images stored in man's short term memory.
Plausible? It is. The beauty of Source Code lies in its science-meets-superhero tenor and in the fact that the film hurtles across like a relentless thriller, leaving you no room to sit back or even blink. Gyllenhaal is mesmerizing. Michelle Monaghan is ravishing. Vera Farmiga is memorable. And Source Code is hard to forget.
Story: Jake Gyllenhaal knows himself as Colter Stevens, an American Army officer who last flew helicopters in Afghanistan. But when he wakes up on a commuter train in Chicago, the lovely lady (Michelle Monaghan) sitting before him tells him he is Stevens. Eight minutes later the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in a pod in a military establishment, taking orders from officer Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) who tells him he has to go back and find who the bomber is. Can Stevens travel back in time and solve the riddle? More importantly, can he find his true identity and actually end up saving the world with a bit of time realignment?
Movie Review: Hollywood is increasingly entering interesting territory, exploring the frontiers to which the human mind can actually grow.... The quest for man's metamorphosis into superman has always been the stuff of comic book fantasy. But now, there is a whole new genre of cinema which is serenading man as superman, albeit with a scientific edge. No cape and costume fantasy needed here; just some tantalizing hypothesis about the limitless expanse of the human mind, and bingo! You and I can be invincible, immortal world saviours. Terrific thesis, isn't it?
Source Code is an extremely smart and saucy follow-up to the multiple identity maverick heroes of films like Inception and Avatar. Is Jake Gyllenhaal a US pilot in Afghanistan, a pawn in a military pod, a commoner playing vigilante, a commuter falling in love? The film explores the mind-altering realities that Jake inhabits, even as he tries to race against time, again and again, to stop a demented bomber from turning the world into rubble. And its all due to Source Code, a process where time can be tampered with, by using the images stored in man's short term memory.
Plausible? It is. The beauty of Source Code lies in its science-meets-superhero tenor and in the fact that the film hurtles across like a relentless thriller, leaving you no room to sit back or even blink. Gyllenhaal is mesmerizing. Michelle Monaghan is ravishing. Vera Farmiga is memorable. And Source Code is hard to forget.
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