Sort of like it for the action, almost thriller, sci-fi blend. More importantly I was left with hope. Not the kind of hope that gives a depressed person reason to live. Come on, that's too far-fetched for any movie. If it were possible for a film to break my dismal outlook, at least one of the thousands of movies I've seen including, It's A Wonderful Life, (Already discussed see Since 1972.) would've done it for me long ago. Let's pause, celebrate, and thank, my dismal outlook for the many hours I've spent staring at the movie screens for escape instead a noose.
The hope that Source Code delivered for me is one of an alternate reality in or with death. Nothing new in any form of fiction . But the way it was done, in my opinion was cool. Just a pause and your're already there. No lights out, no light at the end of a tunnel, no judgement day, heaven or hell, or what have you. You're just there. In this movie you enter into the reality of a tragic event that happened just recently. A dying air force pilot is kept alive on life support. His brain is plugged in to a computer that is reconstructing the recent tragic event. His mission is to fine and stop cause. He's sent back several times finally gets the job done. For his reward he is aloud to die by the hand of a sympathetic fellow officer. Of course this being a Hollywood flick he gets the girl that's already dead..
This movie has sequel written all over it, and/or probably a TV series. I'll never watch it.
Back to what got to me about the movie. It was the style of getting to life after death which blew me away. (No pun intended.) Wired to a computer where a world is being created and running, (Spinning if you like.) Dying mans psyche hook up and downloaded just let go of the physical body in this world. Pause and there. No, this nothing for a reasonable suicide to hang his/her hat on, but with this being Science fiction we can hope. Props to the writer Ben Ripley.
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