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Christina (Michelle Monaghan) and Colter (Jake Gyllenhaal) share a hot relationship in the thriller “Source Code.” |
I had no idea where I was, who the characters were, and what was supposed to happen.
It was wonderful, blissful confusion. A mystery. An enigma.
I managed to see “Source Code” knowing nothing about it, beyond its cast and director, Duncan Jones, whose first movie was the impressive, low-budget drama “Moon.”
The Chicago-set “Source Code” turns out to be the sort of challenging, irresistible science-fiction thriller that works best if you allow yourself to get swept up in its outrageous premise and not be too concerned about its head-scratching details that beg for explanation, or its never-ending ending.
I instantly empathized with Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal), who feels the same sense of confusion.
The last thing he remembers is being in a helicopter in Afghanistan. Next thing he knows, he wakes up on a Chicago-bound commuter train across from a young woman he’s never met. Her name is Christina (former Columbia College journalism student Michelle Monaghan), and she seems to know him. She calls him Sean.
Stevens doesn’t understand what’s going on or why he’s on a train. He really freaks out when he glimpses himself in the mirror, and he’s some other man he doesn’t know. (Read more…)