Source Code
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan and Jeffrey Wright
Release Date: 2011-04-29 00:00:00
Quick Take: Twisted sci-fi that is thoroughly entertaining
If you thought Inception was intelligent, The Matrix path-breaking, Pi intellectually stimulating or Groundhog Day thoroughly entertaining, chances are you'll end up liking Source Code. The film is as unique in its concept as any of the above mentioned films and, most importantly, it affects you enough to make you think, discuss and talk about the possibilities of its premise long after you walk out of the screening.
The plot of the film is classic sci-fi mumbo jumbo, the kind that gives average students attending a physics class a serious sense of disbelief. Soldier Colter Stevens wakes up inside the body of an unknown man, he's on a train, his companion is attractive and there's a bomb on the train too. Before you think this is Fritz Lang meets Alfred Hitchcock, think again. It becomes a Run Lola Run. As the plot thickens, several new layers are added to the story, several new doubts are added to the explanations and it all complicates into one messy test of the average moviegoer's perception and intellect.
The film uses complex physics theorems like alternate time lines, alternate realities, parallel universes and dimensions and gives you a new world where all these theories blend together to give you blow-your-mind kind o [...]
Thanks, Lookyp.com@gmail.com
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan and Jeffrey Wright
Release Date: 2011-04-29 00:00:00
Quick Take: Twisted sci-fi that is thoroughly entertaining
If you thought Inception was intelligent, The Matrix path-breaking, Pi intellectually stimulating or Groundhog Day thoroughly entertaining, chances are you'll end up liking Source Code. The film is as unique in its concept as any of the above mentioned films and, most importantly, it affects you enough to make you think, discuss and talk about the possibilities of its premise long after you walk out of the screening.
The plot of the film is classic sci-fi mumbo jumbo, the kind that gives average students attending a physics class a serious sense of disbelief. Soldier Colter Stevens wakes up inside the body of an unknown man, he's on a train, his companion is attractive and there's a bomb on the train too. Before you think this is Fritz Lang meets Alfred Hitchcock, think again. It becomes a Run Lola Run. As the plot thickens, several new layers are added to the story, several new doubts are added to the explanations and it all complicates into one messy test of the average moviegoer's perception and intellect.
The film uses complex physics theorems like alternate time lines, alternate realities, parallel universes and dimensions and gives you a new world where all these theories blend together to give you blow-your-mind kind o [...]
Thanks, Lookyp.com@gmail.com
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