At first glance the trailer to Source Code looks like a rehashing of different films with similar themes. But if I told you that the film was directed by Duncan Jones, who helmed one of the best science-fiction films of recent memory (Moon), would you react differently?
Full of intrigue and promises, it looks to be a good cerebral thriller (yes, even with the likes of Jake “I can play a Persian” Gyllenhaal). I watched it once and was instantly hooked. Besides Gyllenhaal, other actors in the film include Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, and Jeffrey Wright.
Source Code centers on Gyllenhaal’s character, a solider who is part of an experimental government program investigating a terrorist incident that occurs on a train. The program involves him inhabiting the body a commuter in the train and reliving the bombing again and again until he can find who is responsible for the attack.
Watch the trailer below and let us know if this is a thriller that you would watch all the way through or just hit the reset button.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKtr9ZAooc8
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the “Source Code,” a program that enables him to cross over into another man’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack. Filled with mind-boggling twists and heart-pounding suspense, Source Code is a smart action-thriller directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) also starring Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, and Jeffrey Wright.
Summit Entertainment will release Source Code in theaters on April 15, 2011.
