More Avatar than Groundhog Day, Source Code whips along its brisk runtime with snappy twists and turns. Jake G is tasked through science fiction ways with finding a bomb on a train that exploded earlier on in the day. He’s not in his own body and has 8 minutes each time to solve the terrorist case. 
Duncan Jones directs from a neat spec script with the same confidence he had in Moon, and seems to have lost since. It’s a shame this Deja Vu type film represents one of the last in the high concept-mid budget thrillers that dominated from the 1990s to now. I could grumble all day about how streamers buy mid budget films because they only want to spend marketing budgets on ‘$250 million cinematic’ films that make the big bucks, but instead I will just enjoy that there are still so many fun films like this to discover from the 1990-2012 era. Jake G has kinda gone full Wahlberg at the moment so if he can relax back into his Prisoners / Nightcrawlers / Enemy era that would be appreciated.