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I've been looking forward to the Source Code but it's been a big disappointment, there's no other way to say it.
I loved the opening: Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Stevens, an Air Force captain that wakes up in a train without knowing how he got there. On the train there's a girl talking like they were friends and calling him "Sean". He tries to explain her he's not Sean but she seems not to understand why he's saying so. Stevens decides to go to the toilet and then looks at the mirror...
I thought it was great, enough to catch my attention. But as the movie went on, the mistery got releaved and I found out what really the Source Code is, I found myself in front of the most absurd theory I ever heard. Every sci-fi story is invented and incredible, it's fiction after all, but basically uses a pseudo-scientific theory that could look plausible. This movie uses the old story of time paradoxes rules, immutable vs. alternate timelines, and puts on them The Source Code, that is something really absurd.
Anyway, I decided to enjoy the human drama side of the movie. In fact, Stevens does his best to rescue the girl and maybe everyone else, even when he finds the truth. And I tried to enjoy the action movie, made of good scenes but with some little flaws, for example I could tell about twenty minutes before the protagonist who the attentator was, and those twenty minutes has been really annoying. Moreover there's no point in leaving your wallet in a train that was going to burn out and make ashes of everything, hoping someone will find it and think you were in there.
It's not I'm too hard to please, but from a big production like this I was asking a little more. Like another ending, not so predictable like that.
I liked Vera Farmiga instead. She's not doing that much in the story, but she's been able to look like a light guiding Stevens from where he is, while Jake Gyllenhaal performance has been good but not great.
