A Dead American Soldier Strives to Rescue Chicago

Rating: 2/10 (30 July 2011)

Today's pointedly unpatriotic Hollywood has no love for -- or interest in --- real American soldiers fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere; and screenwriters aren't well informed enough to know that the War on Terror is about radical Islamists, not lefty college nut-jobs. But they WILL make a movie about a DEAD soldier in a race against time to rescue the city of Chicago (as well as a train) from a terrorist's bomb.
Why not? This gives them an opportunity to blow up a train on camera. Actually, the train is blown up eleven times, so the filmmaker can re-cycle the explosion 11 times. Neat! Actually, most of the guy's mission time is used up playing kiss-face with a very willing female passenger; but there are also slug fests and shoot-outs.
None of this makes a shred of sense, any more than Inception made sense; but at least the train stays on the track and doesn't go slamming down State Street. Nine year old's on crack might be pleased with Source Code; but grown-ups????