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Spoilers Ahoy...maybe
The first thing i noticed about this film that it was in a small Cinema. It was packed too. The guy sitting in our seats moved without too much prompting, which was good, because I wasn't in a particularly good mood. I'd gotten an email from the Production Manager at 7pm that night, saying she needed to have an urgent meeting with me and my Boss on Monday. Not the best way to start your weekend; with a possible dressing down waiting on route back to work. Add to that some complete dick-wad had parked in my underground car space, and I'd spent the previous half an hour writing evil notes to leave on his windscreen.
I left a pretty tame one, and when he was still there this morning i let one of his tyres down. Still up the air about doing that. If he's there when I get back later, It's another tyre. If he's still there Sunday, he ain't driving out of there in a hurry, and I'm charging the fecker rent on it. I just wanted to waste his time as much as he had mine. Better than Keying him i suppose. I think he's still there, anyway, the second thing that I noticed was that the sound wasn't very loud. Used to sitting in a theater and being immersed in glorious digital 7.1 or whatever it is now, it sounded at best 2 channel stereo, and for this little black movie duck, this just doesn't cut it. What followed though, was quite an interesting film. Friends of the great series Quantum Leap might feel slightly cheated that it wasn't called Quantum Leap, but it was good homage to the show. The opening starts with the obligatory chopper shots over Chicago, and you'll recognise some of the location from Batman Begins, maybe? I think they moved Dark Knight to Philly if memory serves.
We follow Captain Colter Stevens as he wakes up aboard a train, with no memory of ever having gotten on the Train. There's a beautiful girl opposite him, mid conversation and like you would, he can't really understand whats going on around him. Then, he gets blown up, as you would, and catapulted back into the second of his realities. He is stuck in some kind of cockpit, with Goodwin, a Military woman on the monitor infront of him, asking him if he found the Bomb, and that he must find the Bomber. I won't go any further with the plot, as to talk too much about it, would obviously give it away.
Directed by Duncan Jones, the man who's first feature was the stylish, Moon. Once again Jones pieces together an Onion of a film. No, it won't make you cry or smells bad, it's got layers. And to watch the film is to peel back the layers. This isn't the spoon fed plot that usually happens in these kinds of films. It's clever, and it demands the audience have some degree of intelligence without ever abusing that respect. The Characters are well thought out, and Gyllenhall does a pretty solid turn as the Captain, who believes he was flying a sortie in Afghanistan only yesterday and is determined to get to the truth. Vera Farmiga is solid as Goodwin, cold yet heartfelt, but Jeffrey Wright doesn't quite deliver as the 'boss' type figure. He's more a characature of this character, and doesn't bring any of his familiar weight to the screen. He tries, but it just doesn't quite work.
I'll let you figure it out from here, but I'd really recommend it. Don't question the science behind 'Source Code'. It may very well turn your head inside out.
3.5 out of 5 from me.
McB
The first thing i noticed about this film that it was in a small Cinema. It was packed too. The guy sitting in our seats moved without too much prompting, which was good, because I wasn't in a particularly good mood. I'd gotten an email from the Production Manager at 7pm that night, saying she needed to have an urgent meeting with me and my Boss on Monday. Not the best way to start your weekend; with a possible dressing down waiting on route back to work. Add to that some complete dick-wad had parked in my underground car space, and I'd spent the previous half an hour writing evil notes to leave on his windscreen.
I left a pretty tame one, and when he was still there this morning i let one of his tyres down. Still up the air about doing that. If he's there when I get back later, It's another tyre. If he's still there Sunday, he ain't driving out of there in a hurry, and I'm charging the fecker rent on it. I just wanted to waste his time as much as he had mine. Better than Keying him i suppose. I think he's still there, anyway, the second thing that I noticed was that the sound wasn't very loud. Used to sitting in a theater and being immersed in glorious digital 7.1 or whatever it is now, it sounded at best 2 channel stereo, and for this little black movie duck, this just doesn't cut it. What followed though, was quite an interesting film. Friends of the great series Quantum Leap might feel slightly cheated that it wasn't called Quantum Leap, but it was good homage to the show. The opening starts with the obligatory chopper shots over Chicago, and you'll recognise some of the location from Batman Begins, maybe? I think they moved Dark Knight to Philly if memory serves.
We follow Captain Colter Stevens as he wakes up aboard a train, with no memory of ever having gotten on the Train. There's a beautiful girl opposite him, mid conversation and like you would, he can't really understand whats going on around him. Then, he gets blown up, as you would, and catapulted back into the second of his realities. He is stuck in some kind of cockpit, with Goodwin, a Military woman on the monitor infront of him, asking him if he found the Bomb, and that he must find the Bomber. I won't go any further with the plot, as to talk too much about it, would obviously give it away.
Directed by Duncan Jones, the man who's first feature was the stylish, Moon. Once again Jones pieces together an Onion of a film. No, it won't make you cry or smells bad, it's got layers. And to watch the film is to peel back the layers. This isn't the spoon fed plot that usually happens in these kinds of films. It's clever, and it demands the audience have some degree of intelligence without ever abusing that respect. The Characters are well thought out, and Gyllenhall does a pretty solid turn as the Captain, who believes he was flying a sortie in Afghanistan only yesterday and is determined to get to the truth. Vera Farmiga is solid as Goodwin, cold yet heartfelt, but Jeffrey Wright doesn't quite deliver as the 'boss' type figure. He's more a characature of this character, and doesn't bring any of his familiar weight to the screen. He tries, but it just doesn't quite work.
I'll let you figure it out from here, but I'd really recommend it. Don't question the science behind 'Source Code'. It may very well turn your head inside out.
3.5 out of 5 from me.
McB
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