Thriller

Science Fiction

Mystery

Source Code

The Mark Gordon Company

Summit Entertainment

Vendôme Production

United States of America

France

English

Jake Gyllenhaal

Michelle Monaghan

Vera Farmiga

Jeffrey Wright

Michael Arden

Cas Anvar

Russell Peters

Brent Skagford

Craig Thomas

Gordon Masten

Susan Bain

Paula Jean Hixson

Lincoln Ward

Kyle Gatehouse

Albert Kwan

Anne Day-Jones

Clarice Byrne

James A. Woods

Joe Cobden

Tom Tammi

Matt Holland

Jasson Finney

Kyle Allatt

Frédérick de Grandpré

Pierre Leblanc

Raynald Lapierre

Scott Bakula

Duncan Jones

Ben Ripley

Paul Hirsch

Jeb Brody

Fabrice Gianfermi

Hawk Koch

Philippe Rousselet

Jordan Wynn

Chris Bacon

Don Burgess

Mark Gordon

Suzanne Cloutier

Tom Bellfort

John Papsidera

Renée April

Barry Chusid

Blanche Boileau

Anthony Di Ninno

Hélèna Laliberté

Patrick Kerton

Stéphane Lefebvre

Alison Cote

Mike Chute

Thomas Liccioni

Rick LeFevour

Michael Scherer

John MacDonald

Josée Arsenault

Sylvie Desmarais

Michelle Côté

Nathalie Garon

Martin Lapointe

Magali Métivier

Adriana Verbert

Christine Carrière

Johanne Paiement

Dominic Mango

Lyne Calvert

Kathy Kelso

Aimee Lippert

Diane Simard

Suzi Ostos

Morag Ross

Bruno Gatien

Kathy Tse

Mark Unterberger

Annette Bélanger

Réal Capuano

Jamie Knutson

David Laramy

Catherine Leboeuf

Alec Anderson

Sophie Grenier

Yan-Frédéric D'Amour

Marc C. De Léry

Merje Veski

Martin Gagné

Simon Guilbault

Raymond Larose

Jean-Pierre Lavoie

Jocelyn Charbonneau

Jean-Pierre Gosselin

Sylvain Lebeau

Martin Lussier

Jonathan Miron-Fyfe

Benoit Robert

Eric Senecal

Martine Gagnon

Lizzie Cook

Sophie Béasse

Eileen McCahill

Fabienne April

Valerie Bordeleau

L. Kalo Gow

Michael Franck

Kimi Webber

Sarah Schooley

Marjorie Hamel

Paul Barette

Eric Ladd

Lucie Robitaille

Caitlin McKenna

Jonathan Kinnas

Johanne Titley

Guy Ferland

Hans Bjerno

Dave Williamson

Sylvaine Dufaux

Jody Williams

Francois Archambault

Sylvain Bernier

Darin Wong

Brad MacLean

Mark Purkart

Scott Thiele

Jean-François Abran

Michael Boulonne

Eric Lefèbvre

Pierre Malo

Source Code is a “repeating loop” Science Fiction film directed by Duncan Jones whose prior film was Moon. Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, and Vera Farmiga play the lead characters. It even has Russell Peters in a guest role. Unlike Moon, Source Code is a fast-paced thriller. The film follows a man who is made to go through an 8-minute window repeatedly to locate the person responsible for a train bombing. As the loop repeats, the plot thickens. It's a pretty good film which keeps you at the edge of the seat and reveals to you in stages as to what is going on. The cast has done a good job portraying their roles. It's a Sci-Fi that deserves one watch at least (but you might do two to get it)

Brilliant concept. Great execution. A sci-fi classic.

Another in a longish line of high-concept mainstream movies. In many of those movies it's fashionable to have a confusing story which people will interpret as being brilliant/genius and which has an in-built "repeat" viewing factor due to the baffling nature of the story which has just been told. Think movies like "Inception".

"Source code" is a far superior film to "Inception" but will probably lack the kudos of the latter. Briefly, the story concerns a commuter ("Colter Stevens", played by Jake Gyllenhaal) on a train who has an identity crisis. Before he can resolve it, he dies with all the other passengers in a massive explosion. Afterwards (!), the man awakes in a weird chamber where he is questioned by military (or some such) personnel about who caused the explosion. Don't worry, this is not a 'spoiler'...it's established very early on in the movie that this is what has happened.

Of course, you get questions along the lines of "Which reality is real?". Going with the sci-fi explanation (involving secret military experiments) you have a plausibility to the scenario which is very nicely unambitious and may in fact have some science (perhaps speculative) to it...involving information retained in the brain post-death...some 8 minutes...which gives rise to another gimmick of the movie...the character reliving those 8 minutes in order to solve the mystery of the train explosion. The latter part of the scenario may be hard to rationalise as remotely plausible, but I just ran with the premise...perhaps it might have been a more plausible story if the movie didn't go down that path...a more 'realistic' science fiction, perhaps.

This is a great story which seems to have no loose ends to it, at least on one level...the film makers provide you with clues as to what is happening and you aren't left high and dry like similarly themed movies can do.

P.S. on reflection, the part of the movie dealing with 'reliving' the 8 minutes of memory in the way that they did, did strike me as being a loose-end/plot-hole...but you just enjoy the ride at the time.

A lovely, dark, morbid fantasy.

If you like this film, some others and a video game with similar themes include:

12 Monkeys

The matrix

Dark city

Groundhog day

Assassin's Creed (video game...personally I don't find the first game in the series to be fun to play...the sequel is much more playable).

[Originally posted on another site on 17 May 2011 according to their dating.]

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