Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Source Code

When I went to this, I thought Hollywood keeps spitting out these Sci-Fi movies without substance and why can't they think of anything new? Anyway, I was surprised at how good this movie was based on concept, filming and acting. Its a winner.

So the basic premise of this movie is: a guy is trying to save a girl by changing what's happening in the time continuum or in parallel universes. (As though, that's possible.) Jake Gyllenhaal plays a soldier sent back in time over and over again to figure out who is bombing a commuter train headed to Chicago. Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) is also in this film playing his contact to the military world. Every time he is sent back, he finds more clues to who the bomber is and how to stop the incident from happening. He also isn't himself, he's in another guys body and he falls for the girl who sits on the commuter train with the guy's body he's inhabiting. Well, it makes sense when you watch it. Not sure how there's always time to fall in love and all that stuff during a mission but apparently men make time? Hmmm. Mystery unsolved.

What I'm trying to say is that there are some idiotic things to movies like this but 3/4 of it was so good that I over looked it. And if you have a friend who talks through movies all the time, you'll be happily surprised how captivating this film is. No one in the whole theatre spoke, made a joke or took a phone call, text, tweet.

Worth the money: $$$$

Limitless

Hmmm. I love Bradley Cooper. He's a hottie. Well, not at the beginning of this movie for sure. Picture an uninspired writer, who looks like crap, feels like crap and doesn't write worth a crap who on a crappy day walks outside and runs into an old friend. This friend gives him a magical pill that gives him all the possibilities in life his brain has to offer catapulting him from down-on-his-luck-guy to on-top-of-the-world-super-bad-ass financial, genius. Too good to be true? True. Fun to watch, definitely. Except the violence just wasn't needed. The dark side should be represented because who really gets a free ride in life? Then again, it's just a movie so I think it should have been left on the cutting room floor. And I'm still pondering how a loser guy can have such a great girlfriend. But that's for another blog.

Worth the money: $$$