Source Code

"Make every second count."

2011 1h 33m EN

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7.3

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7.5

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★7.3TMDB · 9,471🍅92%Rotten Tomatoes●74Metacritic★7.5IMDB · 577,054

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Synopsis

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When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

“Make every second count.”

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Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal
Colter Stevens
Michelle Monaghan
Christina Warren
Vera Farmiga
Colleen Goodwin
Jeffrey Wright
Dr. Rutledge
Michael Arden
Derek Frost
Cas Anvar
Hazmi
Russell Peters
Max Denoff
Brent Skagford
George Troxel

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Duncan Jones
Writers: Ben Ripley
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America, France

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.6× over at the box office.

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ERA

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Released 15 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United States of America, France.

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4 / 8

CAST

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253+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Duncan Jones, shot by Don Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Chris Bacon. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Paul Hirsch shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Duncan Jones directs. Don Burgess behind the camera. Chris Bacon scores. Paul Hirsch cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America, France. Dialogue in English.

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1Made its money back 4.6× over at the box office.
2Released 15 years ago.
3International production across 2 countries: United States of America, France.
4253+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Duncan Jones, shot by Don Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Chris Bacon. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Paul Hirsch shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Make every second count.".
10IMDB entry: tt0945513 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 15 themes, including "race against time", "bomb", "virtual reality", "identity".
12Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Don Burgess
Original score: Chris Bacon
Editing: Paul Hirsch
Production design: Barry Chusid
Costume design: Renée April
Makeup / hair: Michelle Côté
VFX supervisor: Louis Morin
Sound: Tom Bellfort
Stunt coordinator: Patrick Kerton
Runtime: 93 min · 1h 33m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $32,000,000
Box office: $147,332,697
Return: 460% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Source Code (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 74/100
IMDB rating: 7.5/10 · 577,054 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

1 win & 8 nominations total

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artlawless2019-02-15
★ 8/10
Source Code is a “repeating loop” Science Fiction film directed by Duncan Jones whose prior film was Moon. Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, and Vera Farmiga play the lead characters. It even has Russell Peters in a guest role. Unlike Moon, Source Code is a fast-paced thriller. The film follows a man who is made to go through an 8-minute window repeatedly to locate the person responsible for a train bombing. As the loop repeats, the plot thickens. It's a pretty good film which keeps you at the edge of the seat and reveals to you in stages as to what is going on. The cast has done a good job portraying their roles. It's a Sci-Fi that deserves one watch at least (but you might do two to get it)
dfle32025-03-31
★ 10/10
Brilliant concept. Great execution. A sci-fi classic. Another in a longish line of high-concept mainstream movies. In many of those movies it's fashionable to have a confusing story which people will interpret as being brilliant/genius and which has an in-built "repeat" viewing factor due to the baffling nature of the story which has just been told. Think movies like "Inception". "Source code" is a far superior film to "Inception" but will probably lack the kudos of the latter. Briefly, the story concerns a commuter ("Colter Stevens", played by Jake Gyllenhaal) on a train who has an identity crisis. Before he can resolve it, he dies with all the other passengers in a massive explosion. Afterwards (!), the man awakes in a weird chamber where he is questioned by military (or some such) personnel about who caused the explosion. Don't worry, this is not a 'spoiler'...it's established very early on in the movie that this is what has happened. Of course, you get questions along the lines of "Which reality is real?". Going with the sci-fi explanation (involving secret military experiments) you have a plausibility to the scenario which is very nicely unambitious and may in fact have some science (perhaps speculative) to it...involving information retained in the brain post-death...some 8 minutes...which gives rise to another gimmick of the movie...the character reliving those 8 minutes in order to solve the mystery of the train explosion. The latter part of the scenario may be hard to rationalise as remotely plausible, but I just ran with the premise...perhaps it might have been a more plausible story if the movie didn't go down that path...a more 'realistic' science fiction, perhaps. This is a great story which seems to have no loose ends to it, at least on one level...the film makers provide you with clues as to what is happening and you aren't left high and dry like similarly themed movies can do. P.S. on reflection, the part of the movie dealing with 'reliving' the 8 minutes of memory in the way that they did, did strike me as being a loose-end/plot-hole...but you just enjoy the ride at the time. A lovely, dark, morbid fantasy. If you like this film, some others and a video game with similar themes include: 12 Monkeys The matrix Dark city Groundhog day Assassin's Creed (video game...personally I don't find the first game in the series to be fun to play...the sequel is much more playable). [Originally posted on another site on 17 May 2011 according to their dating.]