Folksy take on quantum physics and reality

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2011)

I dug Source Code. For one thing, it was a sort of funky take on the question of Free Will; that there's a discernible "afterimage" to events, of which the crux can be derived as a kind of source code; and that the compiling and running of that source code can produce multiple possible specific outcomes. As with Groundhog Day, Colter is very much the Random Factor in that program. The one truly free man! I enjoyed it very much. The surprising thing was that, "gimmicky" though it might be, it develops the storyline around the gimmick with aplomb and even a kind of verve; the writing is excellent.
The backstory; of an ultra high-tech anti-terrorist program; at first sort of put me off. But I came to realize this movie was not a peon to rarefied, big-ticket technologies designed to save America from a comeuppance. It seems to transcend that, and so redeems itself on this point.
Anyway, watch and enjoy!