Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Movie: Source Code

Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a decorated army helicopter pilot whose last memory is of his recent mission in Afghanistan, flying with his team while taking on enemy gunfire. He awakens on a train headed for Chicago with no memory of how he arrived there. His reflection is of a different man and his wallet says his name is Sean Fentress. Sitting across from him is a woman named Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan) who seems to know him as Fentress. Before he can understand what is happening, a bomb goes off and destroys the train.
Stevens then awakens inside a chamber, where he is greeted through a computer screen by Capt. Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga), an Air Force officer who tells Stevens that he is inside the Source Code, a program that allows him to take over someone's body in his or her last eight minutes of life. Earlier that day, a bomb exploded and destroyed a train headed into Chicago, the train that Stevens awoke on. Stevens' mission is to locate the bomb, discover who built it, and report back to Goodwin before the bomber can detonate a second larger bomb, a dirty nuclear device, in downtown Chicago, which could cause the deaths of millions of people
That is just a brief description of the amazing movie Source Code.  This is one of the best movies of the year. The movie has two plots, one of Stevens communicating with Goodwin and discovering what is happening. The second is inside the source code on the train. I love movies with multiple plots, like thos one, and Inception.
Another reason this is such a great movie is that the plot unfold quickly, but also slowly. The movie is not slow, it is action packed and suspenseful, but you also learn the background of the characters slowly, making the movie awesome and keeping you guessing. You get a lot of new info quickly, so that the movie doesn't seems slow, but you get that info for a long time, if that makes sense.
This movie is utterly amazing. Watch it now!


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