Amazed how many miss what happened

Rating: 8/10 (31 May 2019)

Source Code is a fun and interesting take on what at first seems to be high tech memory analysis where an Air Force Captain has his consciousness placed into the last 8 minutes of a man who died in a terrorist attack.
The actual procedure is far beyond that we learn in the end as the tech was actually placing the Captain's consciousness into that dead person in an alternate reality that was identical to reality up to that point.
The problem is less with the story or tech since this is a Sci-Fi movie and accepting that future tech and alternate realities are par for course, but with the fact that the scientists involved don't realize that changing what happened makes it not a memory. Although they may just be making assumptions that the tech allows the simulation of sorts since that is as believable as alternate realities I suppose.
The reviews I have read that feel the later scenes and the final run through the source code somehow don't make sense led me to post a review. Simply put, the last scenes at Nellis are in the alternate reality. Therefore the train didn't blow up. The Captain is still alive in the device.
Of course I feel a little bad for the teacher in that alternate reality as he ceases to exist when the Captain's consciousness from the first reality takes over - although since he would have died otherwise maybe not as tragic as it seems at first.