Inception creator, Christopher Nolan’s gift for combining puzzling narratives with pulse-racing action and insane visual effects has rightly crowned him the king of all puzzling films. Yet if Source Code is anything to go by, he could have a challenge on his hands.
His competition? One Duncan Jones, whose gripping follow-up to lunar puzzler Moon mirrors the seismic jump Nolan made between his monochrome 1998 indie Following and 2000’s brilliant Memento and should likewise propel Jones into the Hollywood big-leagues. Which t be honest, is well deserved from a man who was forced to live with the name Zowie Bowie... deary me. If nothing else, it should speedily free him from the ‘son of David Bowie’ tag that dogged him when Moon surfaced two years ago, even if its hero – Colter Stevens, a US helicopter pilot in Afghanistan mysteriously separated from the rest of his unit – does bear uncanny similarities with a certain Major Tom. Ground control to Major Tom (:
I am a massive fan of his film 2009 film, Moon and even decided to write my coursework on it; it is by far my favourite science fiction film EVER. And I did not think he that he would be able to out do it. How wrong I was. It was fast paced, brilliantly filmed and kept me on my toes. I suppose that it does kind of help that it stars the ever beautiful Jake Gyllenhaal.
My Star Rating:
8/10 *
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