"Do you have the internet on your phone?"
"No, it's just connected to the office by a really long piece of string."
This sci-fi Groundhog Day is lean, tautly-constructed, absorbing and thought-provoking, made so effective by skillful and confident direction and genuinely warm and engaging central performances by Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan. The inventively-handled use of a small number of limited spaces keeps the focus firmly on character and story without ever becoming repetitive, leading to some surprisingly affecting scenes towards the end of the film. Source Code is an efficient and very successful straightforward small-scale thriller with an unusually strong human heart beating at its centre.
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