This story is told with the eyes of Cpt. Colter Stevens, and it’s also a bizarre story, indeed. He wakes up systems of the different man, on the Chicago-bound commuter train, and eight minutes later experiences a bomb blast which blows him as well as the train to bits. When the rope repeats this experience, repeatedly. He discovers his mission is always to determine who set the bomb, and why the Sam Hill he’s within this different body! Before this weirdness began he’d been a helicopter pilot flying a combat mission in Afghanistan.
His condition is steadily revealed while he keeps moving back into this scenario to try to solve the mystery. Finally he solves both mysteries, falls crazy about the attractive woman for the train, plus there is a contented twist towards the end.
The director, Duncan Jones, also did “Moon” a film I quite enjoyed at the same time. I’m happy to see he’s staying in touch the nice work.
Which is the very good news. Listed here are the technofiction flaws I saw:
o The first problem I noticed was that the bomber were tote a 50-70 pound bomb comprised of a large number of separate parts to the train restroom and smoosh this the ventilator panel and in to a stable place on the websites for above the ceiling without anybody about the train taking notice. He’s a robust, agile boy, indeed!
o The 2nd problem was that as the story unfolds it will become an increasing number of plot deviceish. We have a bomber who’s going to besides explode this train, but inflate Chicago at the same time, and somehow the authorities uncover that train bomb is just a prelude….Wow! That’s asking lots.
Asking more: This can be being done by just an individual! Text messaging isn’t build, deposit, and off both devices. MacGyver on steroids!
All of the above appears to be unfolded to give some urgency to the story.
o Somehow… out of this devastating carnage of your train wreck. The top-secret military people locate a passenger brain that is still alive enough that they’ll transfer full sensory images to Cpt. Stevens’ mind. And so they do this in a few minutes on the wreck happening because the clock is ticking on “the big one” still coming.
There’s never a cop around when you really need one, there is however a super-secret military agency johnny-on-the-spot when you wish a film plot device.
o For reasons uknown having Stevens practice a couple of times, and know what his condition is, will not work. The tale lets us know until this top secret outfit may be waiting patiently for any disaster in this sort so they really could test their new creation, so there is plenty of time to have Stevens acclimated whether they have chosen to do so.
o At one time the military tells Stevens that this blast was deliberately timed to look off when the commuter train was passing a freight train. The military people imply the bomber was watching to do this, which suggests the bomber was pursuing the train in his car and able to see once this happened.
…Well, he’s already strong and agile enough to obtain a 50-70 pound bomb up the restroom ventilator, and engineer enough to make the bomb simply by himself, I guess they can certainly be a NASCAR-class driver too.
o The 2nd bomb, the main one the military is wanting desperately to quit, is termed a dirty bomb. A dirty bomb is often a conventional bomb by radioactive stuff mixed in. It isn’t really a nuclear bomb and it’s quite a bit less powerful as one. It’s a run-of-the-mill car bomb as well as some radioactive contamination. It’s not about to turn Chicago into rubble, the aim the mad bomber says he’s shooting for.
o I won’t go into detail, but the “who” Cpt. Stevens has effects on because he runs through this again and again is one thing that can some serious belief suspension, but I will grant that.
So, in general, it is just a nice thriller to see. It’s well crafted plus the acting, pacing and computer graphics flourish at supporting the story. Nevertheless the story is a technofiction head-scratcher.
