Nail bitingly bloody entertaining

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2011)

If I use one line to explain Source Code that would be "Practically impossible yet nail bitingly bloody entertaining"
Captain Colter Stevens suddenly realizes that he is not where he is supposed to be. He is inside another man's body and travelling in a train to Chicago. What he can remember last was flying a helicopter in Afghanistan. Soon he realizes that he is on a mission that none has taken before and his objective is to get in to roots of a bomb explosion which will take place in 8 mts. Not knowing how he ended up there at the first place and getting little help from the people at the commanding center, Capt Stevens has no option but to complete his mission. And he discovers that he is a part of a top government experiment where he is transferred to a dead man's final 8 minutes of consciousness. He painfully relives the 8 mts over and over again to gather evidence of the bomb blast and to prevent a different catastrophe that is yet to unfold by the same bomber.
The flick is a bucket of confusion from the start. And that's where the entertainment is. You get to know very little of the characters in the movie at the first and expect a lot from them right throughout. You feel like there is a big mystery hidden somewhere but the movie gives you just small hints only. Just like Capt Stevens the viewer would struggle to unfold the dilemma and connect the dots each time a new 8 mts cycle starts. But when the truth is revealed it will blow you away and somewhat breaks your heart in the process.
This movie is well structured. As I mentioned at the start it's doubtful how much the plot is close to real science but the mere interesting execution of what's suppose to be a big 'lie' will make you forget all the glitches.
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