Something of a blend of GROUNDHOG DAY and DEJA VU, this is an intelligent science fiction movie that, one character claims, is not about time travel. Oh, yes it is.
A man (Jake Gyllenhaal) suddenly finds himself in another man's body eight minutes before that man and everyone on the train he's riding are killed in an explosion. He learns that his mind is being sent back to the same point, over and over, so he can learn who planted the bomb--because the bomber is apparently setting off another bomb in downtown Chicago--the same day. As he revisits the same time line again and again, the protagonist becomes interested in a fellow passenger who already knows "him" (i.e. the guy whose body he inhabits for those 8 minutes), and becomes determined to try to save her, despite being told by his handlers (whom he sees only on a TV monitor) that this isn't possible.
Doug Jones directed; the movie is quite good, mostly engrossing (with a few slow spots); it's successful enough that I think it's a shame he was taken off the new Superman project.
A man (Jake Gyllenhaal) suddenly finds himself in another man's body eight minutes before that man and everyone on the train he's riding are killed in an explosion. He learns that his mind is being sent back to the same point, over and over, so he can learn who planted the bomb--because the bomber is apparently setting off another bomb in downtown Chicago--the same day. As he revisits the same time line again and again, the protagonist becomes interested in a fellow passenger who already knows "him" (i.e. the guy whose body he inhabits for those 8 minutes), and becomes determined to try to save her, despite being told by his handlers (whom he sees only on a TV monitor) that this isn't possible.
Doug Jones directed; the movie is quite good, mostly engrossing (with a few slow spots); it's successful enough that I think it's a shame he was taken off the new Superman project.
