Deja Vu

Rating: 8/10 (14 June 2016)

Director Duncan Jones follows up his film Moon with a time reassigned action thriller Source Code.
Taking inspiration from the television series Quantum Leap as well as films such as Narrow Margin, Groundhog Day and 12 Monkeys.
The movie opens with Jake Gyllenhaal playing a decorated soldier, Captain Colter Stevens, a helicopter pilot whose last mission was in Afghanistan who comes to consciousness on a Chicago commuter train. He feels disorientated and confused as a pretty passenger opposite called Christina (Michelle Monaghan) acts like she is his girlfriend and refers to him as Sean. When he goes to the bathroom and looks in the mirror he sees another man's face.
Colter has no idea of what is going on around him and suddenly after the train takes off after brief stop a bomb goes off killing everyone.
Colter finds himself back in some kind of capsule and learns the is taking part in some kind of experimental computer simulation called the source code where he can go back to the last few minutes in that train as he linked to the brainwaves of one of the victims. His mission is to identify the bomber who was on that train as he plans to set off a second larger bomb.
The simulation repeats itself and each time he gets to know more about the people on the train and possible suspects.
There is something Hitchcock like about this film as Colter finds himself in a position he does not largely understand and something more dangerous elsewhere is going on and people are relying on him to come through. His controllers back at command reluctantly give him small nuggets of information as Colter tries to figure what is happening.
The film might not be entirely original but it has enough sci-fi and thriller elements to be entertaining because Gyllenhaal sells it well helped by Monagahan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright.