I know this one has been so celebrated by a very vocal group of fans who've found their way to it over the years, I'm not saying here I dislike it because that's just not true, I am however saying I see that 90%+ RT average, I see the 4/5+ ratings on Letterboxd as well and I have to say, I can't quite get there myself.

In of performance work I do love what Gyllenhaal and Farmiga are doing in this, by virtue of the Groundhog Day style storytelling theirs are the only character that really truly develop through the film for me, I like what everyone is doing well enough, but most are just repeating scenes in slightly different ways each time and as brilliantly efficient as Duncan Jones' film is with it's well paced 90 minutes or so runtime, that does mean we don't get the kind of exploration a film like Groundhog Day gives you, there's a reason as to why Murray's time trapped protagonist in that film keeps doing new things, engaging with new character's etc and that's because it allows for a constantly refreshing change of environments and faces, which in stories where the same day, or in Source Code's case the same eight minutes, play out on a loop it's important to keep things fresh at all times.

I like the ending we get in this film as well, I'm maybe not as sold on the logic of it but then, do I really need to be? I don't think so, going back to Groundhog Day it's never truly explained as to why what is happening to Murray in that film is happening, most of these time loop film's miss a trick there by trying to explain they're own spin on it to varying degrees of success, I think why I'm more inclined to bring it up in regards to Source Code is that this is a film with a more sci-fi stab at the time loop concept, and I'm a Star Trek fan and they do this a lot in that franchise and there's always a sense of there being a bigger onus on explaining it in sci-fi, Source Code follows that mantra and yeah, I'm generally more happy going along with the concept from a mystical or magical perspective.

It's a solid film across the board though, it's imaginative conceptually and Duncan Jones is a filmmaker whose work I enjoy, I know Warcraft didn't work out so well for him and I've heard nothing but bad things about his film Mute, but between this film and Moon before it, I enjoy what Jones has to offer as a filmmaker and I hope we see more of him to come. (I may be very biased because he's the son of David Bowie and that scores him more brownie points with me).