365 Days. 365 Films.

From the director of Moon, his directorial debut, comes Source Code – a film where the plot is difficult to explain without giving away the countless twists! Jake Gyllenhal stars as Colter Stevens, a soldier who, one day, wakes up on a train as someone else. After eight minutes on the train it explodes, and suddenly he is in a capsule as part of a mission. His mission is to find the bomb and the bomber of the train as his consciousness is transferred to a recently deceased passenger of a Chicago train in an ‘afterglow’ simulation of the incident.

It’s confusing to say the least, and just as you think you understand it, there’s another twist in the storyline. The plot and general writing is amazing and it’s a great idea for a compelling story that keeps you guessing throughout. Jake Gyllenhaal demonstrates his superb acting abilities through a variety of complications that his character goes through and he doesn’t falter once.

As for the director, Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie), he is outstanding in capturing every ounce of talent from his actors, as well as an adequate level of action. Despite all this praise I have to give for the film, there was something missing. Although reminiscent of Inception, it’s not quite to it’s standards and the only explanation I can give to that is that this film may have been trying to cover too many bases with the action, science fiction, drama and emotion, and although it worked, the film was far too short for each to set in for the audience. It was almost slightly uncomfortable viewing because of this constant switching of emotions, plot lines and twists, but a great film nonetheless.