Released 4-1-11
PG-13 (1:27)
Wed. 6-8-11 at Crossroads, alone
RT: 91, I'll go with the same
Director: Duncan Jones
JAKE GYLLENHAAL (need I say more?) Michelle Monaghan, Vra Farmiga
Great movie. Air Force Captain Cotter Stevens wakes up on a train heading for Chicago, sitting across from a young woman who keeps calling him Sean. As the train approaches the city, it blows up. Stevens "comes to" in some sort of a dark, cold, weird underground holding room. He can't remember anything that's happened to him, but the woman who he can see and talk to on a screen tells him, slowly, what he needs to know. He has 8 minutes to keep returning to the same situation to discover information about the bombing so he can stop the next one that is going to take place. Most of this is shown in the first fifteen minutes, its the roller coaster ride after that that I won't retell. It's an interesting story, and if you can put aside wondering how being able to go back and forth works, you'll progress right through the movie understanding almost everything that happens.
Gyllenhall is his usual wonderful, handsome, athletic, smart self. Michelle Monaghan as the girl on the train and Vera Farmiga as the person on the other side of the screen are both very good. It's the story that works here, at least for me....it's a good one!
