"Source Code"

Action/Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller. Rated PG-13. 1 hour, 34 minutes.

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This movie is about a decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who wakes up as an unknown man and discovers that his mission is to find the bomb and bomber on a train headed for downtown Chicago. Stevens wakes up inside a cold, metallic chamber and finds that he is part of a government experiment called the Source Code, which is a program that enables a person to cross over into another person's body in the last eight minutes of their life.

This is a thriller with a little bit of science fiction thrown in. Christina, played by Michelle Monaghan, is his love interest in the film and thus tries to find a way to save her life from the blown up train. Carol Goodwin, played by Vera Farmiga, who by the way played George Clooney's love interest in Up in the Air is Stevens' contact and encourages him to figure this out.

Source Code also stars Michelle Monaghan, Jeffrey Wright and Michael Arden. It is rated PG-13 for some violence including disturbing images, and for language. The film was released by Summit Entertainment, LLC. Scenes were shot in Chicago and in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

It is a hard movie to figure out since there is drama and mystery about it, and it keeps replaying his last eight minutes of his life several times during the movie.

I was disappointed in the movie myself and therefore, do not recommend this one.

OVERALL RATING: D

Photo credit: Summit Entertainment, LLC

Source Code movie poster