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Source Code

2011

Duncan Jones

Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright ...

6.5

49,624

Sci-Fi. Thriller. Action A sci-fi story centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of a commuter who witnesses a train explosion. 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Think of Groundhog Day morphing from comedy to thriller and you'll get an idea of the mischief afoot in Source Code (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"Solid execution and some provocative ideas can't save Source Code from a fatal hubris, as it thinks itself far more clever than it actually is"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"A high-octane mind game best enjoyed by following a key character's advice: "The Source Code is a gift. Don't squander it by thinking (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"A fun ride of a sci-fi thriller with terrific romantic chemistry between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"I'm still not sure what "source code'' means here. I suspect the actors, the director, and the screenwriter haven't a clue either. But the thing keeps you watching"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"An ingenious thriller (...) here's a movie where you forgive the preposterous because it takes you to the perplexing. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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