Film review: Source Code

14 Apr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMdBJ_W4wYE

If you loved Groundhog Day and you enjoy a bit of sci-fi, Source Code, directed by Duncan Jones, may be the perfect movie for you.

Captain Colter Stevens played by Jake Gyllenhaal is forced to go back in time numerous times with the help of source code, the language computer programs are written in, on the mission to find out who blew up a commuter train. He relives the same anxious eight minutes before the crash but in slightly different ways over and over again, getting closer to the truth while starting to fall for his fellow passenger Christina (Michelle Monaghan). Every time he takes the journey, you grow more affectionate to his character and his desperate attempts to save the people on the train.

The perfect companion for a film also featuring quantum physics is of course a physicist friend. However my friend and I plundered our physical sciences knowledge and came away baffled as to whether the explanations were plausible. However we enjoyed watching and found some pleasure in the sometimes clunky old-fashioned feel that this special effects movie had especially in the research laboratory.

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