Director: Duncan Jones
Year Released: 2011
Rating: 2.0
A former soldier (Jake Gyllenhaal) 'finds' himself in the body of another man on a train heading to Chicago ... only to discover that the train is rigged with a bomb and that he's actually a part of a Top Secret government virtual reality program in which 'he' has to keep 'dying' in the train (over and over and over) until he takes the correct steps to defuse the bomb and notify his superiors (Jeffrey Wright and Vera Farmiga) as to the identity of the bomber. While some of the same techno-dweebs who found Christopher Nolan's Inception to be the second coming of 'mind warp' movies appear to be frothing over this, I find it to be an ambitious concept (for Hollywood) killed by repetition and a damn-near absence of common sense and logical reasoning. It wants you to believe it's incredibly well thought out, when it's about as deep as the droplet of coffee on Gyllenhaal's shoe. It's a little like playing a video game with an unlimited lives code ... after a while, it just stops being fun.
