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Source Code's high-concept storyline leads to fast-paced action sequences set during an eight-minute time loop aboard a doomed train, but the scenario's countless repetitions come with additional meaning thanks to the movie's biggest twist. Despite leaning heavily into one specific sci-fi trope, Source Code's ending reveals Jake Gyllenhaal's Captain Colter Stevens is up against something entirely different, retroactively transforming the gravitas of all the movie's previous events. In short, Source Code doesn't fall into the category of traditionally cool time loop movies - it's something else entirely.

Alongside his mission to identify the train bomber, Captain Stevens is also given a list of things that aren't believed to be possible within the scenario. Regardless, Colter finds new ways to seemingly bend the rules and achieves things that seriously bring into question the nature of the train. The gradual unveiling of what's really going on is a big...

Duncan Jones' "Source Code" holds the bragging rights for beating the recent slate of multiverse films by more than a decade. The 2011 movie, for those who are not familiar, centers on Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal), a U.S. Army pilot who is tasked with uncovering the identity of the terrorist behind the bombing of a Chicago commuter train. In order to do that, Colter accesses the Source Code, a newfangled invention that recreates the events on the train eight minutes prior to the bomb's detonation using the memories of the dead passengers.

If you think that's a lot to digest, you'd best get strapped in.

Upon entering the Source Code, Colter wakes up in the body of Sean Fentress (Frédérick De Grandpré), a modest school teacher who's traveling — and flirting — with a friend named Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan). Does Sean's mind cease to exist when Colton shows up? Is the...