So i went a saw Source Code today with a couple of friends and thought i might as well make my blogpost for today about the movie, as it was pretty good and i need to review it on here at some point.
Source Code is the story of US Air Force Captain Colter Stevens ( Jake Gyllenhaal) who wakes up on a train with no idea of how he got there, gets talked to by a women he's never met but seems to "know" him and when he goes into the train's bathroom to collect himself, see's a face in the mirror that is definatly not his own. Its an interesting start to the movie and the setup itself seems a bit wierd at the beginning, but by the time the movie reaches its conclusion you come to realise why this has happened. This is pretty much the feeling that runs for the entirety of the film, but it helps to maintain the thrillerish aspect of the film, which has an Inception feel to it without the same convoluted storyline (or at least not to the same degree anyway)
Overall I thought Source Code was a brilliant movie, with some intriging twists and turns throughtout, as well as the progression of Gyllenhaal's character being very well done, in a way that meant you wern't entirely sure what was going to happen next. He starts off in a very confused state, not being entirely sure about what is happening to him and why he is being involved in this mission, which involves identifying the person responsible for bombing a passanger train on its way to Chicago within an 8 minute time frame, in which he can travel back to just before the bomb was detonated and attempt to identify the bomber, to coming to a realisation that isn't immediatly apparent and is quite suprising. The best way i can describe the film is a dumb man's Inception, because essentially thats what it is on a base level, its a thriller which messes with your mind like Inception, but the plot is nowhere near as complicated and multi-faceted and actually makes sense in the end (or not depending on your point of the view :P)
In conclusion, I would recommend this movie, its a smart, sophisticated thriller as well a fairly decent action film on its own, there are moments of weakness in the characters and plot, but they are quickly forgotten about when compared to the rest of the film. Gyllenhaal and the other actors portray their characters well, though i thought in places that Jeffery Wrights character was a little bit weak and flawed, when you compared to his other roles such as Felix in the Craig Bond movies, but he doesn't have a massive amount of screen time so its not a major fault to the film as a whole. If you liked Inception, or simply like thriller films with a sci-fi touch, then watch this film.
Score: 9/10
Question: what films do you plan to see in the holidays?
DFTBA
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