★★★
This is a fun movie for a Friday night. Carlos and I checked it out, and I was involved in it almost from the beginning. I liked the acting (except Joe Wright, whose bad scientist was too over-the-top in the context), and I really enjoyed the story. I just didn’t see most of the narrative turns coming.
I had some expections for the movie since Jones directed Moon, a sort of intellectual sci-fi movie from last summer which I appreciated. And I could see the Jones imprint on Source Code, too: a series of shifting frames of reference which kept giving me new ways to interpret what was happening. Like in Moon, where we keep learning new things about Sam Bell, we keep adjusting our understanding of Colter Stevens and his mission as this movie progresses.
Moon is about identity and what life means, and Source Code approaches the same issues. But this film is mostly an action romance, great stuff for Fridays.
