A trailer for Jake Gyllenhaal’s Source Code is online, and it looks like a really neat concept.
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the “Source Code,” a program that enables him to cross over into another man’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack.
This looks pretty crazy. But it seems odd that he is sent into the mind of a passenger on that train IN THE PAST and thinks that he can change the future because of it? Sounds to me like he is just there to observe and get information that will catch the terrorists. The events already happened. I don’t know how that’s supposed to work, but it should be interesting to see how they explain it.
