Source Code (2011)
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Synopsis:
A US helicopter pilot wakes up from manoeuvres in Afghanistan to find himself being repeatedly channelled into someone else's body on board a Chicago commuter train, eight minutes before it is set to explode. His mission? To find the bomber before he sets off another, even bigger device.
Review:
Mind-bending thriller based on the conundrum that a deadly event leaves an afterglow in the mind of the victim, which can be accessed by another consciousness with the right makeup, leading to seven or eight parallel pasts explored by our hero, none of which can change the actual outcome of what has already occurred. The science of how all this is possible has to be taken on trust; the film is far more interested in pursuing the nuances of re-lived experience in the way Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters, or Groundhog Day did, and eliciting our sympathy for what all this does to our hapless soldier, perfectly cast in the post-Jarhead shape of Gyllenhaal. Of course, like other time travel dramas on which too much audience sympathy depends, such as Deja Vu, this one sets forth its rules of play before ultimately merrily breaking them, but it is all so nimbly done and gamely played that it affords classy B movie entertainment.
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Synopsis:
A US helicopter pilot wakes up from manoeuvres in Afghanistan to find himself being repeatedly channelled into someone else's body on board a Chicago commuter train, eight minutes before it is set to explode. His mission? To find the bomber before he sets off another, even bigger device.
Review:
Mind-bending thriller based on the conundrum that a deadly event leaves an afterglow in the mind of the victim, which can be accessed by another consciousness with the right makeup, leading to seven or eight parallel pasts explored by our hero, none of which can change the actual outcome of what has already occurred. The science of how all this is possible has to be taken on trust; the film is far more interested in pursuing the nuances of re-lived experience in the way Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters, or Groundhog Day did, and eliciting our sympathy for what all this does to our hapless soldier, perfectly cast in the post-Jarhead shape of Gyllenhaal. Of course, like other time travel dramas on which too much audience sympathy depends, such as Deja Vu, this one sets forth its rules of play before ultimately merrily breaking them, but it is all so nimbly done and gamely played that it affords classy B movie entertainment.
Country: US
Technical: col 93m
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Synopsis:
A US helicopter pilot wakes up from manoeuvres in Afghanistan to find himself being repeatedly channelled into someone else's body on board a Chicago commuter train, eight minutes before it is set to explode. His mission? To find the bomber before he sets off another, even bigger device.
Review:
Mind-bending thriller based on the conundrum that a deadly event leaves an afterglow in the mind of the victim, which can be accessed by another consciousness with the right makeup, leading to seven or eight parallel pasts explored by our hero, none of which can change the actual outcome of what has already occurred. The science of how all this is possible has to be taken on trust; the film is far more interested in pursuing the nuances of re-lived experience in the way Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters, or Groundhog Day did, and eliciting our sympathy for what all this does to our hapless soldier, perfectly cast in the post-Jarhead shape of Gyllenhaal. Of course, like other time travel dramas on which too much audience sympathy depends, such as Deja Vu, this one sets forth its rules of play before ultimately merrily breaking them, but it is all so nimbly done and gamely played that it affords classy B movie entertainment.