where: EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when: Friday, April 1st, 2011
show: 12:01 a.m.
costs: $11.00 Ticket + $6.00 small Popcorn + $4.75 small Zero Coke = $21.75
auditorium: 6
seat: 5th row, 10th column
synopsis/overview: An army helicopter pilot, Captain Colter Stevens ( Jake Gyllenhaal ), wakes up to find himself in the body of another man riding on a Chicago commuter train. Soon, he learns that he is part of a secret government program called, The Source Code, that allows an agent to enter the body of another person in the last eight minutes of that person's life. Captain Stevens is put in the mission to find the bomb that will blow-up the train, a bomb that serves only as a distraction since the terrorist responsible for it is also planning to kill millions of people in the downtown Chicago area with a homemade nuclear bomb. Capt. Stevens re-experiences the critical eight minutes many times, gathering new clues each time, in order to find the bomb and the terrorist behind it.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Unfamiliar surroundings; 2.) Restroom; 3.) Patterns; 4.) "Find the bomb"; 5.) "It's the same train but different"; 6.) "Goodwin ( Vera Farmiga ), you didn't tell me that I should disarm it"; 7.) "There's not going to be a next time"; 8.) "Two months"; 9.) "He ... is now you"; 10.) "Eight minutes and I blow-up again"; 11.) "You look strange"; 12.) "Think of it as a game"; 13.) "It wasn't you"; 14.) Afterglow; 15.) Letter of intent; 16.) News; 17.) "You're still here"; 18.) "It's the new me"; 19.) "What would you do if you only had eight minutes left to live"; 20.) Military patch; 21.) "Can I borrow a pen"; 22.) "Your friend was killed in action"; 23.) Flashback; 24.) Irrelevant; 25.) "You cannot deviate"; 26.) "Send him back"; 27.) "We have to keep doing this until you find the bomb"; 28.) "Please don't blow me up again"; 29.) Second call; 30.) Emergency lever; 31.) Wallet; 32.) "Very patriotic"; 33.) "Stay with me"; 34.) "I have your bomber"; 35.) "I'm asking you to give me the decency to at least let me try"; 36.) Another newscast; 37.) "Powerful weapon on the war on terrorism"; 38.) "Are you asking me for a date"; 39.) Alternate version; 40.) Fail-safe; 41.) "There will be no coming back"; 42.) "I feel really good"; 43.) Funding; 44.) 'Phone call; 45.) Text message; 46.) The bet; 47.) "Open this door"; 48.) "I'd kiss you again"; 49.) Red button; 50.) "Everything's gonna be okay"; 51.) "Do you believe in Fate"; and 52.) Texted message.
favorite scene: I liked the one in which he jumped out of the train.
audience reaction: N/A. There were only three of us in the auditorium. The majority of the movie goers went to see the midnight show for INSIDIOUS.
recommendation: I didn't particularly like this as much as I had hoped that I would. You may want to wait for this to come out as a rental.
spoiler alert! This movie plays like a "terrorist-themed" GROUNDHOG DAY. It is physically and medically impossible for the helicopter pilot to survive that kind of injury in the first place. 'Think about it: For one thing, all his blood would have drained out. And even if for some miraculous reason he was able to survive it, no medic--no matter how good--would have been able to reach him in time and patch/stabilize him so the doctors could put him on life support. Why didn't the train conductor ask for Christina's ( Michelle Monaghan ) ticket? Duh! This movie confuses time travel with parallel time. If you, as an observer, go back repeatedly in time to observe some subjects and each time noticed a slight difference in your observations or manipulated your subjects to alter your findings, then what you have experienced are parallel times; and it simply means that the future end result will be different because the linear time script was paralleled--and we know from Plane Geometry that parallel lines neither meet nor intersect! No two people on Earth, even counting identical twins, are exactly the same because no two people ( or anything for that matter ) can occupy the same time and space. The repeated stress of the time travel experiment would have easily killed the control subject through sensory overload. The "Afterglow" effect that they were talking about looks good on paper only. After all, the target subject was more than likely killed instantly--if not vaporized by the blast--and they could not have done the necessary analysis to determine compatibility with their control subject within the span of eight minutes after the blast! Okay, so he went back in time more than half a dozen times and in-between times he reported, questioned, argued and/or pleaded to/his/with superiors for I don't know how long; well, then, simple addition says that the whole experiment took more than an hour--and I don't know about you, but that seemed like a long enough time for the terrorist to drive to the heart of downtown Chicago, plant the bomb, get the hell out of there and detonate the bomb! Why couldn't they just have used the services of a darn-good psychic or one of the government's own Remote Viewers/Psychic Soldiers, in the first place? In the end, that poor guy just ended-up with acute Split Personality Disorder. L.O.L!
fyi: I saw this documentary on TV once about emergency responders. A man interviewed talked about when his emergency crew came upon a man who was hit by a train. The man was pinned mid-section under one of the train's wheels. The man was conscious and responsive. There was no way for the man to get out of that situation alive because he was literally cut in half. They broke the news to him as gently as they could. But the man was in denial, saying that he was okay and that he'll be fine. When they moved him, the man's guts spilled out and he died instantly.
word of advice: If at first you don't succeed, die, die again!
tidbits: I guess that I don't necessarily follow my own word of advice since I went to see yet another midnight show! Oh, when will I ever learn ....
Eeyew! If I ever find out that I'm inside the body of another man, THERE AIN'T NO WAY IN THE WORLD THAT I'M GONNA HOLD "IT" WHEN I HAVE TO GO PEE!!!!!!!
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