Source Code
Source Code
Do NOT read if you have any intention of watching it!!!!
I went with some friends to watch Source Code and I enjoyed it …….. up until the end!
The scenario is, a Source Code (someone who is more dead than alive …. Well dead, except for some residual brain activity) can be sent back to a ‘shadow’ (I’d call it an echo) of what has gone before. So we’re talking parallel universes here, a subject I love.
However, we’re talking Hollywood here, so thrown in a love interest …… OMG love interest, we’d better make it have a happy ending …….. and leave it open in case the film is so popular, we can do a sequel!!!
The love interest, I don’t have the problem with, even the story was great.…….. It’s the ending I wish had been done different, like ending it 5 minutes earlier.
In order to go back, a captain (Jake Gyllenhall) finds himself in the body of a teacher who is travelling on the train and has to find out who bombed it. Now, once he had completes his mission it’s agreed that he go back to the train, one last time to save the people on it and the machine keeping him ‘alive’ is turned off. This happens and everything freezes, but does the film end there? Which to me would have been the perfect place, therefore allowing you to make your own ending. Nope, the time line resets itself, therefore allowing the Captain to carry on living in the body of the teacher (Sean) and you assume, going off to India with his new lady love.
Cutesy ending, no thought to the fact that the Captain now has to live his life as someone else. What about the teacher’s family? Will he ignore them? Won’t they find it strange when suddenly he forgets things, he should know, like his families birthdays? How can you live yourself as someone else and what happened to Sean, the body he inhabits?
All the loose threads are tied up, and everything is too neat. So instead of coming out with thoughts and ideas zooming through your head, imagination flaring and knowing it had a great ending, you come out feeling,’ that was good, now where did I leave the car?’
A fun film, just a shame about the sour after taste.