The Ground Hog Day aka time loop premise applied to an action movie, has a very video game-like quality to it.

"Source Code is not time travel. Rather, Source Code is time re-assignment. It gives us access to a parallel reality."

(Fun Fact: It blew my mind to see my wife's maiden name Christina Warren, was the same as the love interest in this story.)

I recalled Source Code being just an ok sci-fi action flick, but I really got pulled into the emotion of this story about a soldier forced to figure out who is responsible for blowing up this train he is repeatedly stuck on, before this terrorists next even bigger attack. I am sure you could poke all kinds of holes through this story, but personally I thought it was fun to just relax and enjoy the ride Source Code takes us on.

(Quick Hits)

- With Jake Gyllenhaal leading the way this cast was pretty stellar with great performances from Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, and it was also fun to see comedian Russell Peters in the mix. But for some reason while Michelle Monaghan was very sweet in the role of the love interest, I also found her to be incredibly bland

- Coming to learn the sequence of events that occur each time the main character begins the time loop again ... check!

- It would be really shitty if you had to try to solve a train explosion mystery with very little understanding of how you got in this position in the first place, in addition to somehow being able to bend the laws of time and space

- It is interesting how hopeless the movie makes the situation feel at one point, only for the solution to end up being fairly obvious

- I wonder if these couple minutes each time in the Source Code, play out in real-time in the main reality? If so I wonder how close they got to not stopping the second attack, since they make it seem like he has all the time in the world to try and figure this out

Spoilers:

- So he just had a feeling that setting everything right in Source Code would somehow override the rest of reality, which would allow him to continue living? Pretty good hunch!

- I suppose it is a little underwhelming that the villain is just some crazy bomber guy, that somehow has this very fancy tech

- I might just be a sap but all the emotion they poured on at the end with him getting to talk to his Dad really got my waterworks going

At a brisk hour and 30 minutes, this sci-fi time loop thriller from Director Duncan Jones delivers an intense and emotional good time. Just don't think about the logic of it all too much if you can help it 😉, because I am sure it is very flawed from that perspective.

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