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Year:	2011
Country of origin:	Canada / France / USA
Director:	Duncan Jones
Genre:	Slick sci-fi thriller
Starring:	Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/
Tagline:	Make every second count
Favourite line:	"What would you do if you knew you only had one minute to live?"

From the director of the well regarded Moon comes a blockbuster with smarts that isn’t Inception.
Is that right?
Yep.
Welcome to The Source Code.

The plot:
A man awakens on a train opposite a beautiful woman. She speaks to him as if she knows him, but he has no clue who she is. Bewildered, he heads to the toilet to calm his nerves and, as he returns, the train explodes.
A man awakens in some form of vessel, small, enclosed, with only a viewscreen for company. A woman appears on screen and tells him he is a soldier and that he must return to the train to find out who planted the bomb. The man demands more information, but none is forthcoming.
A man awakens on a train opposite a beautiful woman. She speaks to him as if she knows him, but he has no clue who she is.....

You get the idea.
Yeah, it's the old time being repeated trick.
An excuse just to eat up screen time, or a clever plot device that challenges the expectations of the audience?
Well, I'd say the latter, obviously. True, we have seen echoes of this before - classic Doctor Who had Meglos, ST:TNG had Cause and Effect - but this still feels pretty fresh, pretty....new, regardless.
Jake Gyllenhaal is as excellent as ever in the lead role, and is well assisted by the charming Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga's mercurial presence on the pod's monitor.
This one will make you think, will challenge you to keep up and, with a rather neat ending that seems to baffle many, has just a dash of controversy about it too.
I rather liked this.