When the director of this movie, Duncan Jones, was born his father David Bowie named him Zowie. Prior to seeing Source Code I had no idea that he was the great rocker's son.
Jones has a cult following due to his 2009 movie Moon. Source Code will remind you at times of The TV series Lost with it's parallel universes and it will also remind you of the Bill Murray hit comedy Groundhog Day.
The story is centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
This time bending premise has already been done in Denzel Washington's Deja Vu as well as Jean Claude Van Damme's Timecop.
Source Code has you thinking from the very start and that is one of the problems with the movie. There is not enough action to keep the audience from figuring out who the nemesis is.
In the third act the movie tries to save itself with a happy ending but audiences at my screening left the theater perplexed, confused, and not buying the ending.
The great Jeffrey Wright is a supporting character in the movie. Jeffrey should have won an Oscar for his leading role in the film Basquiat, also let's not mention his masterful performance of Peoples Hernandez in the remake of Shaft. In Source Code Jeffrey is not able to display his considerable talents and the movie never explains why his character is handicapped. Vera Farmiga, another solid talent, is also wasted in this movie.
Verdict:
Interesting but not entertaining.
