Saturday, April 16, 2011

Source Code

Colter Stevens wakes up on a train across from a woman he doesn't recognise, heading to an unknown location with no memory of how he got there. Last thing he remembers he was flying a helicopter in Afghanistan.

...man, how much did he drink last night...?

Unfortunately he doesn't get much time to figure stuff out as 8 minutes later the train explodes and he dies a horrible death.

... which isn't good for a hangover.

The End. Short film.

No, of cause not. Colter wakes up again, in some kind of pod, still no memory of how he got there. A woman called Goodwin appears on a TV screen and tells him he's reliving the last 8 minutes of some other guy's life and he needs to keep reliving it until he can find the bomber to prevent any further explosions.

And with that he wakes up on the train again...

OK, lets get the obvious out of the way. The science in this film is shakey at best. It doesn't really apply any real kind of logic and the ending in particular doesn't even follow the shakey non-science that the movie has set up. If your easily bugged by this kind of thing...

...get a life?

That out of the way, Source Code is a very entertaining film with likable main characters and plenty of explosions...

...or at least one explosion that it shows plenty of times...

In fact, Source Code is so good that one legendary film critic recently said of it:

"‎'Source Code' is probably the best film I've seen so far this year, I think."
-H. Wilks

Admitedly he probably hasn't seen King's Speech.

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