I like time travel stories. I like when there is a mystery than can only be solved by time travel. The Source Code is a form of time travel movie that really isn’t a time travel movie, and yet there is still the mystery of who the heck is blowing up the train.
Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes with a jolt to find himself on a commuter train heading into Chicago. Although the other passengers all seem to know him, he has absolutely no idea where—or even who—he is. The last thing Colter remembers is flying a helicopter mission in Iraq, but here he is in someone else’s life going through someone else’s morning commute. Before he can do anything an express train zooms by on the opposite track and a bomb explodes, seemingly killing Colter and all the other passengers.
Colter comes to in an isolation chamber, strapped to a seat, and wearing his military flight suit. He still has no idea what’s happening, except that he’s being spoken to by mission controller Carol Goodwin (Vera Farmiga), who calmly recites a series of memory questions to which Colter is shocked to realize he knows the answers. He learns he’s part of an operation called “Beleaguered Castle,” but before he can progress any further, Goodwin starts up the machinery and suddenly…Colter is back on the train, at exactly the same time he first appeared there, once again speeding through Chicago with the same group of commuters. Colter figures he’s in some kind of simulation exercise, with his task being to find the bomber onboard the train before it goes off again. Living the explosion over and over, Colter must uncover the identity of the bomber, while also figuring out what the alternative universe of “Beleaguered Castle” is. Adding to the puzzle, Colter uses the second chance opportunities to make peace with his father, and to find romance with a fellow passenger on the train.
Source Code is directed by Duncan Jones, who did that Moon movie some of you are all fanatical about. The movie also stars Jake Gyllenhaal…
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Yay! A Quantum Leap movie!!
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Wait… oh… I see what you’re doing there…
Am I the only one who thinks that it’s kinda like “Deja vu”?
So it’s like Groundhog Day on an exploding train?
Let me guess, she is the one who really planted the bomb?
Nope
get off my plane
I wonder who those “some of us” are
Looks good, but I’d rather have the follow up to MOON.
True Dat!!
I agree that it’s the girl who put the bomb, it’ll end with him saving her and come the realisation that she’s the bomber and die then a new soldier will relive his last 8 minutes trying to stop her…
Looks like a good original movie. But it’s obvious see bombed the train
Is it though… I think they may throw us a curve ball here.
:O he’s actually the reason why she planted the bomb?! lol
Or was it him?
He is the bomber. That is why he has to go back so many times. Its Gyllenhall. He’s done 2 other “time travel movies” he is the Prince of Time Travel Flicks.