excellent!

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2011)

This movie was a top-notch thriller, and I'm glad I saw it. Jake Gyllanhaal opens the movie on a train and doesn't know how he got there, and is puzzled why the lady across the way from him calls him "Sean" when he knows that's not his name and that he's actually a soldier with a different name. He's even more puzzled when he looks in a bathroom mirror and sees a different face. It seems that he's part of a military experiment to investigate the fact that this train is about to blow up as part of a massive terrorist conspiracy, after which he will wake up in a pod-like interior, where he can communicate with other military officials. He can be sent back a bunch of other times to pick up more clues, but the catch is that he can only be sent back for eight minutes at a time due to constraints. I found elements of such movies as "Minority Report," "Back to the Future," and "Groundhog Day" in this film. I loved it and guarantee you will too. It was well acted, directed, and written-overall very well made. Kudos all the way around.
*** out of ****