Last night I had the joy and privilege of accompanying my dear Krysta out for dinner and a movie. Sadly, it is currently that gaping black hole of movie releases in between the last season Oscar contenders and the real beginning of the Summer blockbusters. The pickings at the local cineplex were slim, but I checked out rottentomatoes.com to see what might be passable, and to my great suprise I found that Source Code with Jake Gyllenhaal (yes I had to google that spelling.... get a decent stage name before you start acting, yeesh.) was sitting at a tomato rating of 90%. I was shocked at this, because while the concept was cool, I assumed the movie itself would be total crap.
So we went, and it was not bad. Imagine taking Groundhog Day and tossing in some 24 and you'd get a pretty good idea of the movie. It was fairly predictable but still enjoyable for what it was. I'd give you a rating for it, but we still haven't come up with a catchy proprietary rating system.