tonight i saw source code

source code starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan is a trippy little pg-13 rated sci-fi, love story, who done it head trip, lasting all of just over 90 minutes.  even @ that length it was a little overcooked.  the premise is unique enough in that it's a story of an army grunt helicopter pilot who wakes up suddenly to find himself on a train in the chicago area with a woman who is talking to him but he has no idea who she is.  so he tries to find some answers and then she is a little freaked out by his freakish behaviour and just as she tries to calm him down the train blows em all to bits.  cut to jakes character waking in some sort of space pod as far as we know, where he is even more confused and is now being talked to by some voice (GOD) or other.  turns out to be a female captain played by Vera Farmiga (in a thankless role) who is @ some research facility and is monitoring Jakes' plight into the "source code."  this code is a program that takes the last 8 minutes of a human life and due to some memory imprints that "linger"  after we die allows another compatible being to enter this time overlap from when we die to the 8 minutes we leave imprints for. i guess.  anyway he is consistently sent back to the events that lead up to the explosion on the train in an effort to figure out who the bomber is, and where the bomb is. he must do this and stop him/her before they are able to carry out what has been uncovered as a planned dirty bomb exposition in downtown chicago after the train incident... same day mind you.  so back and forth he goes.  each time figuring more clues and making more mistakes along the way.  fitting this puzzle together must have been tricky, though Gyllenhaal does a convincing job in this role, i liked him., it was simple and to the point as far as performances go.  i also, really liked the morally ambiguous Geoffrey Wright, who is usually brilliant and understated,  and under used in Hollywood if i may say.  his character is the supervisor @ this research facility.  he is too smart for his own good, crippled in more than one way in his awkward delivery, and unfeeling personality, which presents a nice counterbalance to Vera Farmigas role.  back to the movie.  Jake makes the right connections, we learn that his predicament is not as cut and dry as we first think, and the bomb threat is thwarted.  i liked it overall.... once we learn a few twisty details about Jakes character the movie could have ended for me, on what i felt was a real happy note.  and you know us americans, gotta have a happy ending to an otherwise average movie.