Source Code

Source Code (2011)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, and Vera Farmiga
Directed by: Duncan Jones
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Grade: A-

I love Jake Gyllenhaal. I think he's an underrated actor and, yes, he's good looking. I mean, have you seen him?! Anyway, he's pretty good in this movie, though he wasn't as good as he was in Love and Other Drugs and I didn't enjoy this movie as much as I enjoyed Prince of Persia (which was a lot...I saw it twice in theaters...) Jake stars as Colter Stevens, who flys a helicopter for the Army. The last thing he remembers is flying one in Afghanistan. But, when he wakes up, he is on a train and he has assumed the indentity of another man. As Colter runs around the train, trying to figure out what's going on, the train explodes and he wakes up in some kind of pod. He talks to a soldier named Goodwin (Farmiga), who tells him that he has to go back on the train and find who the bomber is. After being sent back several times, and failing, he finally gets to talk to Rutledge, who is the scientist in charge. Rutledge tells him that he is part of a project that can project another person into the last 8 minutes of someone else's life. To add to the already not-ideal conditions, Colter also has to try to ignore Christina, who is across from him every time he wakes up on the train. But soon he realizes that he doesn't want to ignore her anymore and that, if he can stop the bomb from going off, maybe he can save her life. Goodwin tells him that he can't save the lives of the people on the train, but he can figure out who did this to make their sacrifice worth something. When Colter finds out what happened to him in Afghanistan, will he even want to stay in this reality? Or is another one more promising?