For a while back there it looked liked Duncan Jones' second movie would be a sci-fi tapering close to the Blade Runner-stylings of Ridley Scott. Source Code, though, got in ahead of the Berlin-set Mute and has more of a Scott Jr. feel to it. Tony would be happy with this scene which introduces the prickly chemistry between Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Christina (Michelle Monaghan) without sacrificing the sense that something important is about to explode.
Sure enough, there's a bomb on the train. Thanks to the the experimental 'Source Code', a scientific McGuffin you'd need to be Doc Scott to understand, Colter is able to stand in another man's shoes for the last eight minutes of his life and try to uncover the terrorists behind it.
Of course, if the movies teach us one thing about public transport - apart from never sit behind Tom Cruise on an aeroplane - it's don't talk to strangers on a train. Look at, ahem, Strangers On A Train. Or Unbreakable. Or Murder On The Orient Express. Or St. Trinian's. Carnage of one sort or another always ensues. In this case, as Christina is about to discover, it's a whole different kind of mayhem.
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