Source Code (Jones, 2011)
I’ll be quick as I’ve just got out of a screening of Rachel House’s The Mountain – which New Zealand subscribers to F&S should definitely go and see this long Easter weekend – and the 3.15 deadline is looming.
Source Code was Duncan Jones’ high concept follow-up to Moon (which I was not hot on). I reviewed it for Capital Times back in May 2011:
Jake Gyllenhaal is a military helicopter pilot unwillingly enlisted in a secret technology project: the boffins can recreate the last eight minutes before a terrorist (that word again) event in software, inject him into it and ask him to find out who did it. And they can do it over and over again until he finds out what they need to know.
It’s a clever set up and Jones (who will one day direct a Bond film, I feel it in my bones) works it extremely well.
Also reviewed in that CT column: the important local documentary Operation 8, Wellington indie Hook, Line & Sinker, Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison in a not-very-good historical local drama The Tracker, the desperately unfunny Your Highness (“I feel I too went on a quest – to the summit of Mt Dismal. Where’s my prize?”) and a documentary called Babies.
Where to watch Source Code
Aotearoa: Streaming on TVNZ+ (freee with ads)
Australia: Digital rental from the usual outlets (except Apple)
Canada: Streaming on Hollywood Suite On Demand
USA: Streaming on Showtime
UK: Streaming on Netflix or Studiocanal Presents
Editor’s note
I’d love to take credit for how clever I was choosing the last two featured images but it was entirely accidental:
Also, a reminder that there’ll be no Friday reviews newsletter tomorrow as it is a public holiday. I’ll be back on Tuesday with another recommendation.
