Moon, the low-budget sci-fi starring Sam Rockwell, was one of the most acclaimed films of last year, so all eyes will be on director Duncan Jones’s sophomore work. Source Code now has a trailer, which reveals a higher budget and more mainstream thriller premise, albeit one tinted with pulpy science fiction overtones.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Stevens, an agent sent back in time by some high-tech military gizmo that will allow him to inhabit another man’s body eight minutes before a train is destroyed by a bomb. Stevens must find out who planted it, but is distracted by the presence of the fetching Michelle Moynahan (who previously married Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible III) and decides to try and save the day.
It’s a Twilight Zoneepisode writ large – in fact, the pilot for that show featured a man travelling back in time to mitigate the effects of a disaster – but is backed up with a terrific cast that includes Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey ‘Felix Leiter’ Wright in supporting roles. If Jones’s previous film is anything to go by, expect the story to have a layer of philosophical inquisition on top of the standard thriller trappings….
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Moon, the low-budget sci-fi starring Sam Rockwell, was one of the most acclaimed films of last year, so all eyes will be on director Duncan Jones's sophomore work. Source Code now has a trailer, which reveals a higher budget and more mainstream thriller premise, albeit one tinted with pulpy science fiction overtones.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Stevens, an agent sent back in time by some high-tech military gizmo that will allow him to inhabit another man's body eight minutes before a train is destroyed by a bomb. Stevens must find out who planted it, but is distracted by the presence of the fetching Michelle Moynahan (who previously married Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible III) and decides to try and save the day.
It's a Twilight Zone episode writ large – in fact, the pilot for that show featured a man travelling back in time to mitigate the effects of a disaster – but is backed up with a terrific cast that includes Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey 'Felix Leiter' Wright in supporting roles. If Jones's previous film is anything to go by, expect the story to have a layer of philosophical inquisition on top of the standard thriller trappings. The trailer makes the film appear an entertaining high-concept weekend movie, but whether it can reach its full potential and continue Jones's ascendancy will take more than two and a half minutes of slightly quotidian footage.
[via: Empire Online]
