welcome back to movie recaps today i
will show you an action
drama mystery film from 2011 titled
source code
spoilers ahead watch out and take care a
train is moving toward chicago
captain colter stevens an army pilot
wakes up on the train confused as to
where he is
christina begins to talk to him and
calls him sean he looks through the
train
distracted by every movement so he
doesn't even respond to the conductor
when he asks for his ticket
coulter is jumpy with christina as well
when she tries to help him find his
ticket
she asks him why he's acting so strange
but coulter tells her that he doesn't
know who she is
he gets up and goes outside for a second
trying to figure out where he is
but he comes back to his seat next to
christina suddenly
he sees his reflection in the window
showing a different face
colder goes to the toilet and looks at
himself in the mirror seeing someone
completely different
he opens the wallet and sees the same
guy there christina is waiting for him
in front of the toilet
he tells her that he neither knows shawn
nor her suddenly the train explodes
colder wakes up in a different place
hearing a female voice telling him that
he's with beleaguered castle and asking
if he's functional
he's still confused and can't answer any
of the questions the disembodied voice
is asking him
the voice only wants to know what
happened on the train and where the
explosion came from
colder asks her who she is and she shows
up on a monitor in front of him
telling coulter that he already knows
that she tells him that they will
rebuild his memory pattern and begins a
mnemonic procedure
the woman reads him a passage while
accompanying visuals appear on the
screen
coulter isn't paying attention and is
trying to get himself out of the seat as
the woman continues with the exercises
suddenly he remembers parts of the
exercise and repeats back what he had
heard before
she asks for her name and coulter calls
her goodwin dr rutledge shows up briefly
on the monitor checking something
then coulter asks to talk to his father
goodwin interrupts him and continues to
ask him about the bomb on the train
she tells him that christina calling him
another name is incidental
he doesn't know who bombed the train so
goodwin tells him that he will go back
inside for eight minutes again
coulter thinks that he's in a simulation
but goodwin will not give him any
information about his status she just
insists that he find out more
information about the train
find the bomb and you find the bomber
coulter is back on the train
christina is telling him that she gave
her notice at work and will be taking
the lsat
he hears a soda can open and a woman
spills coffee on his shoe
colder says that it's the same train but
somehow different which christina
understands as some deep statement
he activates a timer on his watch and
says that everything looks so realistic
still convinced he's in a simulation
coulter looks around for the possible
bomber and jumps over to a guy asking
how long the delay would be
the guy jokes around and christina tells
him that he's a comedian
he looks around the train searching for
something out of the ordinary and he
sees a student give back someone their
wallet
colder steps back on the train and
remembers that the explosion came from
behind him
he goes into the toilet and looks
through it colder notices that the vent
has been tampered with and opens it
finally finding the bomb he begins
talking to goodwin
thinking she can hear him and instruct
him on the next steps with the bomb
coulter leaves the bomb how he found it
and gets another idea on how to find the
bomber
he goes back into the cart lies to the
people that he's transit security and
that there has been some kind of
security breach so they have to stop
using all of their electronic devices
no one really believes him and when he
sees a man still on his laptop he closes
it for him and breaks his jaw
christina runs over to the man to help
him and coulter says not to worry
because neither he nor she or real
the train explodes and he's back goodwin
tells him to stabilize and lower his
pulse
she asks if he found the bomb and he
tells her that he did but coulter asked
to speak to dr rutledge since he figured
out that he's her commanding officer
coulter thinks that he was in
afghanistan just two days before but
goodwin says that it was two months
he's still confused but he replies to
her questions about the train
she tells him that he's not in a
simulation but that real lives are at
stake
colter wants to know more before he can
continue with the mission
goodwin asks routledge if she can tell
him anything and when he confirms that
she can
goodwin tells him that the train he was
on had already exploded that morning
and that more attacks like that one are
underway sean fentress was on that train
and coulter is him now he doesn't
understand yet but she keeps pushing for
information
colder tells her where he found the bomb
and what kind of detonator it operated
with
goodwill explains that the detonation
was planned to occur at the same time
when a freight train was passing by
engulfing both vehicles the bomber must
have been close enough to see when that
would happen to detonate the bomb
she tells him to concentrate on the
passengers on his train and concentrate
on performing only the tasks
that she has given him they send him
back colder wakes on the train in the
middle of the same conversation
the woman spills coffee on christina's
shoes and she's very kind about it
which colter comments on he believes
she's real now
coulter asked the conductor about the
behavior of the passengers on the train
and the man replies that he's the one
looking strange then
he asks christina if someone looks
suspicious to her tells her to sit next
to him
and says to think of it as a game she
jokes around about all of the people in
the car
naturally not taking him seriously
commenting that he knows the people more
than her because he talks to them all
the time
suddenly coulter notices a guy coming
out of the bathroom and christina
comments that they're going into racial
profiling
she tells him that he's the only other
person she'd seen coming out of there
making him think for a second coulter
looks through sean's things but only
finds her name in his notebook
he wants to go after the guy he saw
earlier and makes christina come with
him
coulter tells her to wait outside the
station as he follows the guy inside the
washroom
he can hear him getting sick in a stall
and inspects him making him really
uncomfortable
the guy leaves with coulter after him he
joins him at the bench where he's
sitting on and asks to borrow his phone
the guy asks to be left alone and leaves
when coulter attacks him and keeps
asking to see his phone
suddenly the bomb explodes and he thinks
that the guy may be the bomber
not completely convinced he goes after
him again and the man pushes him on the
tracks
coulter doesn't get up in time and is
hit by an oncoming train
he awakens in the other place but
neither can he hear beleaguered castle
nor they culture
the place feels freezing cold and begins
shutting down the man working with
goodwin tells her that he's in trouble
then they both go to see rutledge who
tells them that no one has ever been in
a situation like him before and that
they should keep sending signals to him
and see if he responds to any of them
meanwhile coulter finds a toolkit and
manages to restart the power in the
place where he's at
he begins hearing distorted voices as
rutledge is sitting down on goodwin's
computer
coulter hears her reading the passage to
him and calls out to her as rutledge is
preparing to leave
the doctor talks to him telling him that
he invented the thing he is inside of
and confirms that he's in charge
as coulter tells him that he saved a
passenger from the train goodwin comes
back and continues the conversation
she tells him that saving the people on
the train is outside of his mission
coulter insists that she survived but
rutledge explains that she survived only
in the source code
when asked by colder what that means he
tries to simplify it for him
source code is not a time travel machine
but something more similar to time
reassignment
he can only go back there and report to
what he has seen in a kind of parallel
reality
through the eyes of sean fentress who is
his link culture insists that he saves
someone so good when asks for her name
and looks for her online
she tells coulter that christina died
that morning on the train
he still doesn't understand but they
need to send him back again because
there is a second suspected attack in
the center of chicago
they think that this time the bombers
will activate a dirty bomb so the city
is being evacuated
the army thinks that if he can find who
bombed the train the second attack might
be prevented
before they send him back goodwin tells
him about a handgun he can find on the
train
she authorizes him to use every force
necessary when coulter wakes up on the
train
he's very disappointed to see christina
there they talk a little and it's
apparent that he's slowly falling in
love with her coulter has a mission
though when he gets up to achieve it
he goes looking for the gun and finds it
exactly where goodwin told him it would
be
unfortunately the conductor catches him
getting into the safe with the gun
he points the gun at him when the second
conductor electrocutes him
colder wakes up on the train again only
to see christina next to him asking what
he was doing
he doesn't know what to tell her and
knows he's running out of time so he
asks her what she would do if she only
had one minute left to live
colder tells her that he would call his
dad and tell him he's sorry
christina tells him that everything is
going to be okay as the bomb explodes on
the train again
before he wakes up in the other place
coulter has some strange visions
involving christina
he tells goodwin that the gun wasn't the
best idea and that he wants to speak to
his dad
she brushes him off saying that she will
try to do that colter asks her how he is
doing because he doesn't understand the
process
she moves aside to show him where he is
being kept and tells him that she hasn't
been on the other side of the source
code because the specifications are
tremendously narrow for a viable
candidate
goodwin doesn't want to waste more time
and after she assures him that he's
doing good
sends him back to check through the
passengers things coulter is back at the
train and gets to it faster
he draws the military patch that goodwin
has shown him when christina approaches
him
colder asks her to look for his friend
that disappeared in afghanistan and
gives her his real name to search for
suddenly he becomes suspicious of a guy
talking on the phone
he goes over to him and searches through
his bag looking for something
colder notices that a woman has a bag
from an army medical center and goes up
to talk to her
he asks her about the letters on the
patch she tells him that it stands for
air force and that the n stands for
nellis
coulter asks her for her phone and calls
nellis air force base
he asks for rutledge and tells the
operator to tell him that captain colter
stevens is calling for him
christina finds him tells him that the
friend he asked her to look for his dead
killed in action two months ago suddenly
coulter has some memories from
afghanistan and he hears goodwin's voice
again
taking him through the mnemonic
exercises when he wakes up in the other
place he immediately asks goodwin if
he's dead
he tells her that he found an article
online saying just that as well as that
his father received a medal for him
she tells him that he needs to focus on
the train and that everything else is
irrelevant
colter insists to know when goodwin
tells him part of the truth
she says that part of his brain is still
active but that his body is a
manifestation
colder asks if he's imagining that he's
in the capsule and the thing begins to
fall apart
she confirms that the capsule is also a
manifestation and doesn't tell him where
his actual body is being kept
rutledge intervenes saying that they
need to send him back to the train so
that he can prevent another attack
calder still doesn't agree with the way
the source code works and tells rutledge
that he called him from the train that
morning
the doctor tells him that he didn't
receive that call and if he did it would
have been a different reality
the rutledge receiving that call would
be a different routledge entirety
coulter needs more convincing so the
doctor tells him that the project was
sanctioned by a military court
furthermore he tells the air force
captain that many other soldiers would
love the opportunity more preferable
than death
having the possibility to continue
serving their country coulter's retort
to that statement is that for many
soldiers one death is service enough
rutledge promises him that he will let
him die if he finishes the mission
before he sends him back on the train
rutledge tells him that two million
americans depend on the success of their
mission and if he doesn't value his own
life
he should value theirs then rutledge
proceeds to take coulter back on the
train over and over again with no rest
period in between
he tells the soldier that they will keep
doing it until he finds the bomber
colder says that he can't do it and
rutledge manipulates him into getting
him where he needs culture to be
he plays a recording of his father
giving an interview after he died
feeling sorry that they never really
understood each other colder tells
rutledge to send him back in
coulter is back on the train and go
straight for the gun the bomb
he takes the detonator phone out from
the bomb and calls the only phone number
in its call log
a man answers as coulter moves through
the train he tells him to turn around
but the man in front of him hears him in
turns colder sits next to him and
threatens him with a gun
saying that he can't kill anyone the man
swears that he was talking to his wife
so he makes him call the phone again
suddenly another phone rings and he
apologizes to him
he hears the phone outside and follows
after the guy he sees him putting his
wallet back on the train and finally
knows his name
derek frost the door is closed so he
opens it with the emergency handle and
jumps off so that he can go after him
culture sees him go into a white van and
goes up to him he shows derek the phone
but he pretends that he doesn't
recognize it colder knows it's him
though so he shows him the second bomb
inside the van
he inspects the bomb and asks him where
his next target is when catherine shows
up
derek shoots them both coulter is still
alive so derek gives him the whole
speech on why he's doing it
his explanation is that the world is
hell and that it needs to be rebuilt
for the world to be rebuilt it needs to
be destroyed derek gets in the van and
leaves them there
the bomb in the train explodes
regardless when coulter transitions back
to the capsule
he sees the images from before more
clearly immediately as he comes back
he tells goodwin and rutledge about the
bomber in the van he went into
he confirms that the second bomb is
radioactive rutledge and goodwin
congratulate him and say that his
mission is over
before they leave him he asks to be sent
back to try to save the people before he
dies
meanwhile the army arrests derek frost
before he can detonate the second bomb
rutledge gets validation from his
superiors about his project and goodwin
returns to talk to coulter
he talks about the possibilities of
parallel realities and what different
versions of people might be like there
goodwin explains that he only saw
shadows or after images of the people
that died on the train
she tells him that he can't alter the
past but coulter insists that there was
a fail-safe on the explosive that he
didn't see before and that she's wrong
coulter pleads with her to send him back
in without approval and then switch him
off
she has some trouble deciding but still
does it telling him that at the end of
his source code she will terminate his
life support
colder tells her that he'll save
christina goodwin says that it was an
honor and wishes him good luck
coulter is back on the train for the
last time he asks christina out for
coffee and she very gladly accepts
colter asks her to give him a few
minutes to save the world he instantly
goes toward the bomb and takes out the
first and second detonators
then he passes by derrick and steals the
conductor's handcuffs
while the source code is active rutledge
gets more good reviews from his
superiors as goodwin walks into his
office
he tells her to wipe coulter's memory
and prepare him for a new source code
rutledge has no intention to let him die
to goodwin's disapproval
back at the train coulter stops derek
from going out of the train and cuffs
him to a bar
he shows him the phone and calls the
police telling them everything about
derrick and the radioactive bomb in the
van
coulter takes his phone and leaves him
there he sends an email to goodwin from
his phone and calls his dad
coulter tells him that he's a friend of
his and that before he died he wanted to
say that he was sorry
meanwhile goodwin goes to the place
where they are keeping his body and
opens the chamber
seeing the state that is in coulter's
dad tells him that he wishes he told him
that he loved him
he says that he knows it colder goes
back to christina
rutledge gets a call that goodwin is
with coulter he asks for mps to join him
at coulter's chamber and tries to unlock
the door
goodwin waits for coulter's eight
minutes to run out on the train
colder asks christina what she would do
if she had less than a minute to live
she says that she would make those
seconds count calder kisses her
goodwin switches his life support off
and the mps run inside only to see
coulter's dead body
back at the train the explosion never
happens colder says that everything is
going to be okay
he and christina take a walk to the
chicago bean and coulter realizes that
the visions he had when transitioning
were of that same moment
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