Source Code - Parents Movie Review

movie review rating guide for parents and families

MPAA Rating
PG-13

for some violence including disturbing images, and for language

Genre
Action - Thriller

Director
Duncan Jones

Starring
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright

Studio
Summit Entertainment

Release Date/In Theaters
4/1/2011

Movie Summary

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Captain Colter Stevens in this thriller, where he is assigned to stop a train with a hidden bomb, heading into downtown Chicago. As part of an experiment, Stevens can cross over into another person, but only for the last 8 minutes of their life. Stevens jumps back and forth into people on the train to learn where the bomb is and who is responsible.

Movie Review for Parents

-by Ginger

This action packed thriller is about a soldier who wakes up in the body of someone else. He discovers that in his new body, he is on a mission to find the bomber of a commuter train. This parental guide to the movies agrees with the MPAA that this movie is rated PG-13 for violence and language. Colter, played by Jake Gyllehaal, can go back in time up to 8 minutes before a tragic event. He has 8 minutes to find the bomber and prevent the disaster.

I would give this plot an A+ for an original plot. Every time the soldier goes back, he is in a body of someone who was really in the scene before the tragic event. He meets a woman, who was the female acquaintance of the man whose body Colter jumps into. Colter falls in love with the girl and wants to go back and save her, but this is not permitted, He must go back and save her at any cost.

The source code is a program that allows people to go back in time and occupy another person’s body. They are then able to prevent a disaster from occurring. This is a new type of soldier. Colter is cast back into the same train scene again and again until he gets it right. However, the movie is engaging, as every time the main character jumps back in time, a little more is revealed about the plot. There is enough variety to keep the audience engaged. This thriller would be appropriate for pre-teens and teens. It is suspenseful and deals with violence and scenes of mass disasters. This movie is a mystery that slowly reveals itself, until the main character finally figures out what he is supposed to do and why he keeps coming back to the same place in time and space. This family movie reviews considers Source Code to be an excellent and engaging movie especially for the sci-fi fan in the family.