Source Code: Curzon
Dir Duncan Jones, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan; Screenplay Ben Ripley; Music Chris Bacon
Dir Duncan Jones, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan; Screenplay Ben Ripley; Music Chris Bacon
Cracking. Source Code entertains on all fronts: pacey sci-fi thriller, with tense, taut music score and fast, confident direction. Colter Stevens is a helicopter pilot shot down in Afghanistan. He is part of a secret, controversial government programme, the source code, which allows him to re-live the last eight minutes of his life in another’s body. A train is blown apart and it’s Colter’s mission to uncover the bomber’s identity. Groundhog Day meets Hitchcock as Stevens returns each time for eight minutes and uncovers further clues. This narrative structure is neat as it ratchets up the tension whilst allowing Colter to fall for Christina. Yet we are never quite sure how much is real or not. With daring, overhead shots of compartmentalised Chicago, the doomed fast-moving train and the recurrent montage of split coffee, punched tickets and snatched dialogue, Source Code is intelligent, entertaining and stylish
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