Movie Review: Source Code

"Source code" is not only good science fiction is also a good movie. It was a good season for movies with the concepts of the kind of science fiction that is based heavily on special effects. "The Bureau of adjustment" was a solid film. "Unlimited" maybe not as bright as its main character, but it was a fun ride everywhere, and even if I wanted to complain about Hollywood Ending, I must admit that sometimes it's good to see good guys win. I will not say who wins in "source code" but it goes without saying, if you've seen the previews and commercials, which started to unravel the layers of this film.

"Source" is the story of a special division of the Air Force Nellis Air Force Base. It is an interesting choice of setting. Nellis is also the basis on which many of our UAVs are operated. Therefore, in real life, you have the Air Force pilots to take control of thousands of robots miles, and the movie that has a driver to take control of a person in the last eight minutes of his life.

A bomb exploded in a commuter train to Chicago, and the army uses a new secret top (and perhaps as great detail) technology to inhabit the body of one victim just before the bomb explodes. The film opens with Captain Stevens (Jake Gyllenhal) first trip in the past. Almost immediately, if we realize that this story not only of the bomb. In fact, the story of Captain Stevens and his adaptation to his new role much more interesting than the ridiculous plot.

After all, the plot takes 8 minutes. Whenever Stevens jumps in time, which is only 8 minutes to understand what can and solve the mystery of who planted the bomb. If he can find the attacker, the army can stop a future attack to occur. But imagine if Stevens had learned the answer right away? We will be watching a movie 8 minutes. Again and again we see the game 8 minutes. They change every time. We learned new details. The plot begins to push the limits of the rules of time travel has been made, but that involves all neatly enough in the final.

Yet the plot is just 8 minutes, repeated again and again. The real interest is Captain Stevens. He began to admire so much in love with the girl in the opposite seat. His coffee date was occupied by a captain in the Air Force, but it is not really aware of that. One of my only complaints about the movie is that we never really experience some time with nature, life in your body before Captain Stevens arrived. The original owner of this body will simply disappear. It has never been a part of the plot, not even a consideration. But that's fine, because the story of Captain Stevens is complicated and much deeper than the ads and previews suggest.

That's what makes "source code" a good movie. There is a real story here. It is not only a presumption of science fiction with lots of special effects and plot idiot thrown in near the end for good measure (cough - "Creation" - cough). It's a real story with real characters. Captain Stevens is the character to come to terms with his work, and somehow her past. His new friend Christina (Michelle Monaghan), slowly, for 8 minutes of life, decides to change his whole way. As much as she may develop feelings, brief Christian character of this new man has literally become his partner.

Film is based on very few special effects. It 's the transition to digital scenes Stevens jumps in and out of the past, but otherwise there is no flash and dazzle. Film based on the story and characters to create interest. It tells a great story, and concludes that it is confusing and filled all at once.

"Source code" seems to have something to say about fate, free will, and also the nature of our relations. Sci-fi element away from the back of the front human drama.

That does not mean "source code" is not science fiction proper. It is a solid film of science fiction. As director Duncan Jones showed his latest film, "The Moon", you do not need a lot of dazzling effects of good science fiction, even if the film is set in space. In "Moon", which was set entirely on a "source code" moon remote base is mainly in one place, a commuter train bound for the city.

There are some interesting surprises. As a spectator, you'll be frustrated that you do not understand exactly what happens, you will not understand some of the things you see, until secrets are revealed to you. But same goes for Captain Stevens, and the mystery of meaning in the context of history. When all is finally revealed, the characters are honest and forthcoming. There is no hitch, and nothing is required to either the audience or the main character unnecessarily. It is a truth that is both shocking and rewarding, the way a good history of science fiction should be.

I will not reveal the bomber was eventually found, but I will say that when the bomb plot reaches its climax, it feels almost incidental. When this situation when a decision one way or another, the public already engulfed by the rest of the film. Signs and they / don 't they drama between Stevens and Christina. The anguish and urgency of the military command at Nellis AFB. Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright are mostly wasted in their stoic, all-business roles, but ultimately it serves a purpose. There is also a pleasure to hinder our hero is not an ignorant and annoying in all, as is often the case in the military or bureaucratic sloth dramas.

In the end, "source code" is a film that I recommend. This is a good science fiction, not bogged down effects. It 's a good drama, does not hold back poorly written characters, without public understanding or foresight servility in their every move. It 'funny, fast-moving plot and also feed some interesting twists and turns. Best of all by the end of the film became something completely different, and maybe even better than it was when it started.