The Source Code is an intelligent Sci-fi adventure from sophomore director Duncan Jones. In Source Code Jake Gyllenhall stars as Captain Colter Stevens, whose last memory was being shot down in his helicopter over Afghanistan. He wakes up in a Chicago bound train and in the body of someone who is not him. The train, filled with commuters, is eight minutes away from being blown up by terrorists and he has to try and stop the plot by finding the identity of the bomber.
The eight minute train ride is relived over and over again while he tries to figure out how to change the outcome. Of course, over the course of his “Ground Hog Day” re-dos, he meets a woman on the train and the exercise in quantum physics suddenly becomes very personal to the time traveler.
Gyllenhall does a great job playing the good soldier, who is a victim of circumstances, with compassion. Jeffery Wright also stars as the inventor of the Source Code time travel program for the U.S. military. He does a good job of portraying a nerdy mad scientist who cares more about probability and outcome than the feelings of his time traveling subject. Michelle Monagham plays the “girl on the train” who inspires the captain to sacrifice himself to save the people on the train. Scott Backula, who starred in the TV cult classic Quantum Leap, has a small part as the voice on the phone of Captain Stevens’ father
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