Groundhog day?

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2011)

I have loved the movie Donnie Darko, it was great. But somehow this Jake Gillenhaal cannot catch my attention. So I heard about this movie, it would be great, but it had Jake G. in it. Even though I had to see this movie.
Jake wakes up in a train, after eight minutes everyone dies in the train due to a bomb explosion. Jake wakes up in a capsule. He's connected to an experiment called source code. The government can get him back into the train into the body of someone else, just for eight minutes, over and over again, to find out where the bomb is hidden and who the person is behind this act of cruelty.
Now, that is a formula of a good movie isn't it? Besides of getting the feeling that you're watching groundhog day, you also want to learn more of what the situation is where Jake is captured in. Jake talks to the man who has created this source code and with a lot of science-alike blablabla you have to believe of what this man is saying, that is the reality. Well, there this movie lost me because I only heard a lot of crap that did not make any sense, ave the movie a second chance and watched the movie further. You get to see the situation where Jake really is in and that is not pretty. You know that it does not matter in which direction the story goes, you will never be satisfied as a viewer. And that really is the feeling I was left when the movie was over.
Some people say it gives you stuff tot think about, but this ain't Inception. The concept really had a lot of plot holes like the movie maker only had a concept and a little time to work it out. That's a shame. It could have been so much better.