I stayed late at work one day and caught up with the new sci-fi thriller Source Code. The movie is about a soldier who wakes up inside the body of an unknown man and discovers he is part of a mission to find the terrorist who blows up a Chicago commuter train and plans a second attack, a dirty bomb, on Chicago itself.
Jake Gyllenhaal is the soldier who experiences this new top secret technique of "time re-assignment" not time travel. He trips he has eight minutes to try to learn who the bomber is and stop him before the train blows up. In between he is trying to determine his own status inside the operation known as Source Code.
I was prepared for a inept thriller along the lines of the film Vantage Point, where we are forced to witness the same event over and over, but director Duncan Jones handles the material well and the cleverly constructed plot moves along fast enough to skip over the logic gaps that might occur to you.
One of the best sci-fi action movies to come along in the past few years. Don't wait for the DVD see this one in the movies.
At The Movie House rating *** stars
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