Source Code Review Thread (Spoilers)

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Blu-Generation

I like the movie and all, but one thing after the ending makes me feel funny.

[Show spoiler]So the main character starts life as new in the other universe. By stealing the body of some other dude and also stealing his girlfriend.

While the message was romantic, it still felt weird a bit. Oh well. lol

Overall, I wouldn't mind seeing the movie again.

[Show spoiler]Well the other dude is dead, either way he isn't going to get any action with her

[Blu-Generation]

Originally Posted by Foggy

[Show spoiler]Well the other dude is dead, either way he isn't going to get any action with her

[Show spoiler]Well, technically he's not dead now. He's been saved. Only to get robbed of his body. lol

But I get your point.

[GunRanger]

He's still dead. That body in that universe doesn't exist until Jake enters it.

[Blu-Generation]

Yea, I guess if you put it that way. It's all good.

[benzgrl]

Originally Posted by Idioteque...

Actually the end really reminded me of Inception a lot with "Time" but I found this much more touching than Inception, not to start a Inception hate/love war but I preferred it over Inception but I still liked Inception, I just cared more for the characters here.
I really enjoyed seeing Adjustment Bureau and this back to back, similar in themes. Also I wonder if Jones would have casted Rockwell had this not been intended to be Jones' mainstream flick, but Gyllenhaal was great in his role but it's a truly shame Mansell not being able to score since the score he was a bit lacking not to say it was bad but it could have been better, especially compared to Moon's soundtrack.

Wow! I totally agree with you! Maybe "hate" is too strong of a word for my dislike of Inception, but I did not like it at all and precisely for the reason you mentioned that none of the characters I was drawn to or cared for. I really wanted to care for Leo's character, honestly, I did (I know he was doing something important for the love of his life and family which came a little too late, but thru the maze of it all, it left me feeling empty); but maybe it was just all too cerebral for me! On the other hand, I just loved Source Code - the trailer did not do it justice! Yes, it did remind me of Inception in some ways, but I was invested in this one! I cared for all the characters without overloading me, loved all the subtle details and Jake was just awesome, nice to see Michelle Monyihan again too (she was great in MI:III). The end left me thinking and thinking. Vera Farmiga was great as well.

As far as Adjustment Bureau, it was just a little above average for me, maybe a 3 out of 5. I give Souce Code 4.5 out of 5. Adj. Bureau would not nearly be as good as it was w/out Matt & Emily Blunt, they were excellently casted.

[Elandyll]

Originally Posted by GunRanger

He's still dead. That body in that universe doesn't exist until Jake enters it.

[Show spoiler]Well, that's how I see it as well. The Source Code has created an entire alternate universe. So, going that road, he didn't hijack a body and kill a consciousness. It's him in a different body that never had a consciousness before he appeared in it, and everyone remembering him as someone else.
Well ... that's my take on it.

Now, another brain teaser: Does Source Code create an alternate universe -every- single time it's fired, or only when a different outcome is achieved?

The other kicker is that everything -had- to conform to a certain outcome in order to align with the visions that Colter was having each time the "simulation" was ending... Visions of the future? Of an already existing parallel universe that he had already been into but in the future? ... so many questions.


Dun Dun Dun

[toddly6666]

The movie is also pro-religion and pro-military by the way...

[Show spoiler]For example, die for your country and you'll go to heaven...the mirror sculpture is called Cloud Gate (which is basically another way of saying "heaven").

[YouMeAtJordan]

Caught this movie last night as my local cinema hadn't been showing it until recently! After seeing 'Moon' a few weeks ago I had very high hopes for this and it didn't disappoint! Thought it was amazing!

[ZooTv]

Finally got out to a screening of this film this afternoon. I have to say that I really enjoyed it and will most definitely be picking up the blu on day 1.

[Jarfa]

Movie rating: 7.6383

https://www.blu-ray.com/Source-Code/29474/

[Sylentwolf]

Originally Posted by ivanb06

movie looks really good!

reminded me of quantum leap a little.

Exactly what I was thinking, only...

[Show spoiler]he leaps into the same body, over, and over again.

Kind of reminds me of AVATAR... meets DEJA VU... meets THE MATRIX... meets QUANTUM LEAP (TV Series).

Character, "Voice," Played By Someone You May Know...

[Show spoiler]Speaking of QUANTUM LEAP... for all you QUANTUM LEAP fans (if you're out there and reading this) Scott Bakula, who played Sam in QUANTUM LEAP, was the voice we heard as Colter Stevens' (Jake Gyllenhaal) father, from this movie... I thought that was VERY COOL and a REALLY NICE TOUCH

By Far My Favorite Movie This Year

Your Top Movie of 2001 (So Far)

[charlieray1]

I finally caught this last night at the local $1 theater -- I was very impressed! I think that Duncan Jones is really someone to watch -- Moon was fantastic, and this was really, really good. If it doesn't quite measure up to Moon it's only because the central premise is so far-fetched, but over-all it doesn't matter. This is a smart, exciting, well-made film!

I'll get flamed for saying this, but I much preferred Source Code to Inception. It had a similar central idea, but so much more heart. It was a good human story wrapped in a sci-fi scenario.

I'm late to the party, but I wanted to give this thumb up!

[bluearth]

my 2 cents

[Show spoiler]Knew going in it was a Deja Vu ( denzel washington) ripoff. Figured out the twist well before the movie explained it. I knew almost instantly it borrowed from Martin Short/Dennis Quaid's "Innerspace"

Ending was depressing too.

[MarcelS1]

Really liked it.

[Darkhawk9587]

Originally Posted by MarcelS1

Really liked it.

Same here. I caught it in the $1 theater this past weekend. Cannot wait to pick it up on blu.

[jl2002]

Originally Posted by Darkhawk9587

Same here. I caught it in the $1 theater this past weekend. Cannot wait to pick it up on blu.

Awesome movie with a perfect ending! When i watched it @ a theatre, i felt the sigh of relief from the whole audience in the theatre.

[kristoffer]

Just saw this movie tonight. I really reminded me of Philip K. Dicks Ubik. That's a good thing.

[Aquel]

Overall the movie is good but

[Show spoiler]I found the end a pity. It should have ended with the shot where they are all standing still, that would have made sense and been a great ending. The Source Code "reality" only exists in Jake's mind, which is killed of and as such it didn't make any sense to have him live till his imaginary death in a simulation which has been stopped

[Zivouhr]

Finally watched Source Code.

SPOILER: (spoiler thread)
Interesting film. So they somehow used the last remaining trail of energy from Jake's brain as he was deceased or near death (offscreen and later revealed as being shot down during war and preserved in a life support tank for the last remnants of his brain activity), and were able to implant his similar pattern into someone on a train with a similar personality, and use that to somehow use the last remnants of that similar person's memory to be on the train, and then change the source code of what happens in the final looping disastrous 8 minutes to find the killer and prevent the 2nd theoretical attack from happening, but unable to prevent the attack on the train since it already happened, and they're just having Jake's mind go into the mind of the dead man similar to him to see if he can find the killer using all the available memories surrounding him?

While it would probably take another viewing to get the full understanding of it, it was an interesting film, but as far as tension, there wasn't a whole lot since he had plenty of tries to get it right. Had the film showed more of the killer out there who escaped the train in his white van with the nuclear device inside, heading towards his location after his identity was discovered, maybe that could've created more excitement in the film, as Jake's character waits for the authorities in the real world to track down the enemy seconds before the villain was able to succeed on the 2nd attack separate from the train.

Instead, the story simmers down to resolution, and then in the final 10 to 15 minutes, shows Jake go back one last time to resolve the last remnants of source code from the deceased on the blasted train to cuff the bad guy, and then proceed in his mind with the source code to be with his girlfriend.

That's at least what I was able to understand on a first viewing. An interesting concept film that took me a while to get into, but once I understood he had to keep going back to find the killer, it was more interesting. Then when he found the killer, and disabled him, the movie kind of quickly unraveled and all the interest and tension was lost it seemed, yet the film kept going after that with the side story.

Good but room for improvement. It reminds me a little of Edge of Tomorrow.

3/5