Source Code – English Movie Review

Uh! Ah! Oops! My God! Wow! etc, etc… You’ll go through such unceasing acclamations as we have loads of surprises, twists and turns in the tale. And at last by the end of show, it’s a grand round of applause. Filmmaker Duncan Jones and Ben Ripley – the masters of new experiment will leave you awestricken. The film faintly reminiscence of Hollywood masterpieces ‘Matrix’, ‘Avatar’ and ‘Inception’, but that has a percentage level of 0.00000009% and there’s nothing to be bothered about it.

Straight off to the synopsis, the film opens with Colter Stevens (Jake), an American army pilot while flying across Afghanistan has a blackout. He finds himself over a moving train in USA and a gorgeous girl Christina (Michelle Monaghan) sitting right before him says, ‘I accept your advise Shaan’ and everything becomes discombobulated for him. Within next 8 minutes, it’s a terrible bomb blast. Within fraction of seconds, he is found inside a box like cabin, where he comes to interact on a video conferencing with a National security Officer (Vera Farminga).

It is revealed that he is processed through ‘Source Code’ program that is about getting into another man’s identity during last 8 minutes of his life. He has to discover, who plotted the bomb in train so that rest of the attacks can be prevented.

He is commuted back and forth between ‘Source Code’ Box and ‘Train’ so as to find out the bomber. The process becomes toilsome as the Colter Steven becomes emotionally bounded with characters and is forced to accept certain harsh truth about him.

Films based on mind games and permutation-combination concepts have been the most favorite flick for the western audiences. What’s so appealing about the film is that you’ll move to edge of seats from the very first minute of the film. Perhaps, you’ll go standing on your toes for most of the sequences involve ‘Goosebumps’ and ‘adrenaline rush’. It’s not an easy job for any of the film crew for their involvement in such projects. The continuities maintained in editing and a brilliant cinematography by Don Burgess are the biggest pluses. Chris Bacon’s symphonic orchestration in background leaves us spellbound.

Revealing much about the film’s narration may become a blatant spoiler. But then, there are few scenes that we cannot stop ourselves from mentioning. Steven’s phone conversation with his dad through a different identity, Vera Farminga’s involvement with the protagonist, the final line of interaction between Jake and Michelle – ‘What would you do if you have less than a minute to live?’ ‘I would make those second count’.

The process of finding the culprit over the train is outstanding as he keeps changing his pattern of style and starts moving faster and smarter than in previous chapter.

Go watch ‘Source Code’, if you were yearning to watch a film of different style that never existed before.

Yes, the Hollywood Kingpins have proved that they are Kings of  New Inventions.

Cast & Crew:

Production: Mark Gordon

Direction: Duncan Jones

Star-Cast: Jake Gyllenhall, Michelle Monoghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright

Music: Chris Bacon

Cinematography: Don Burgess

Editing: Paul Hirsch

Verdict: Mind-boggling edge-seated thriller. Faster than a roller coaster