Source Code Review

Quick Descriptions:

Source Code is a science fiction/action thing movie, Featuring Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier participating in a mysterious science experiment and Michelle Monaghan as his love interest. It’s filled with questions, and the audience get’s to learn the answers as the main character does. If you want to watch this movie, expect it to be a little bit like inception, in that it’s dense with extreme plot twists, and keeps you guessing the whole time.

Quick Review:

8/8(minutes)

Jake Gyllenhaal (Colter Stevens) wakes up in a little pod and has to figure out what he’s doing there. It turns out that he’s been put there by a secret government/military operation, and his mission involves foiling a plot to bomb a train In Chicago, and Chicago itself. At first the main character seems disoriented and confused. Eventually the plot begins to reveal itself as he gets more and more information.

Analysis:

**Spoiler alert**

Source code is written in such a way so that you never really get bored by more informative scenes, because they’re balanced really well with action oriented scenes, and cool plot twists. Even the simplest scenes keep you guessing and excited. Though the writers worked with a really simple idea, they did a really good job of making it exciting, serious, suspenseful. Even though they show similar scenes over and over, (Repeating the same 8 minute window on a commuter train in Chicago) each one introduces a new idea, and makes you wonder what the next one will be like. Each one introduces a new idea, and makes you question what the next one will be like. Just as the novelty of this set of scenes on the train wares off, they start introducing new elements to the plot, and answering questions.

  

So, just because Jake Gyllenhaal, and some girl are on the cover doesn’t mean this is a romantic comedy or something (as you might have guessed from the title.) If you don’t like movies where you have to do a lot of thinking, or you get confused easily, you might not want to watch this movie. Although this doesn’t bother me, I have friends who were confused by Star Trek, who probably should not watch this movie. As far as something that’s legitimately bad about the movie itself, I don’t have much to say. Although it had a bit of an abrupt ending, it fit the tone of the movie. I don’t usually like quick endings (Contagion,) but this time it worked well, and made me wonder about the possibility of a sequel.

And this is my quick ending. Bye.