Worth seeing.

Rating: 8/10 (19 November 2011)

Right from the start, the intense music and mind racing scene catches your attention...and also leaves you squirming with questions (e.g. "What just happened?!"). This movie is about a guy named Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) who is on a mission to find the bomber of a train that exploded killing everyone on board. The twist? Well, it's complicated. Stevens has to constantly "go back" in eight minute intervals to the event to find out who the mysterious bomber is. He "goes back" through a program called Source Code which is a program that lets a selected being so-to-speak "relive" an event but not change the outcome or anything of the sort because Source Code acts similar to a parallel world. The movie follows Stevens' journey through the use of this innovative program that could perhaps save a future, bigger scale, bombing from happening. The only con I have in the storyline is the end. I felt it was too "Hollywood". It felt as if it went on a little longer than it should have.
Acting-wise, Jake Gyllenhaal is not to be underestimated; he has come a long way from "Donnie Darko". Vera Farmiga (who played Goodwin, the lady running Source Code), was a star like always. Jeffrey Wright, who played the mastermind behind Sorce Code had a nice performance as a particularly mysterious guy. Michelle Monaghan was the love-interest of the movie, her parts were simple yet sweet. Russell Peters even had a small part in the movie. In my opinion, his acting was decent, but I would have liked to see him play himself (though his character is similar). Overall, in three words, this movie was: innovative (the concept was something fresh that I hadn't seen in a movie recently), suspenseful (you'll be guessing throughout the movie who the bomber is), and (incredibly) mind-blowing. This is one of the best new movies out this year and defiantly one of the best thrillers out recently.