WEIRDLAND: "Source Code" more poignant than "Inception", Jake Gyllenhaal sells risky conceptual elements

Thursday, May 05, 2011

"Source Code" more poignant than "Inception", Jake Gyllenhaal sells risky conceptual elements

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Steven in "Source Code" (2011)

"So begins Source Code, a stunning work of modern science fiction from hyper-talented British filmmaker Duncan Jones.
While the science underpinning Source Code is wonky at best, the fiction in play is grippingly solid throughout.

Better still, courtesy of a cracking screenplay by Ben Ripley, the sparse and uncluttered direction of Duncan Jones teases a soulfulness from Colter's tale that is genuinely moving.

In its best stretches, Source Code achieves both the power and the poignancy that ever so slightly eluded last year's brain-addling hit Inception.
As Colter, Gyllenhaal deploys a commanding, yet believable presence that sells the riskier conceptual elements of the tale with no questions asked". Source: www.heraldsun.com.au

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