Code source

« Ce croisement entre GROUNDHOG DAY et JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, porté par un Jake Gyllenhaal qui passe sans mal de l'action à l'émotion, fonctionne avant tout grâce à son intrigue intense, avec accélération graduelle du rythme et escalade du suspense par paliers de difficulté. »

« Variation fantastique sur un thriller à la Hitchcock, Source Code nous garde en haleine du début à la fin (ou presque; l'épilogue est superflu), grâce à son intrigue bien ficelée mais aussi à l'exécution très maîtrisée de Jones qui, notamment en utilisant une caméra subjective, fait plonger le spectateur dans le "code source", lui aussi. »

« Cadrages serrés, ultra-dynamiques, montage nerveux, sens du spectaculaire et de l'intime, intelligence du regard : tout, dans Source Code, respire l'inventivité, l'énergie, le savoir-faire. »

« Mr. Jones did lose me at the messy finish, if only on the level of logic (rarely a deal-breaker for me in science fiction), but he makes it easy to follow Stevens as he toggles between realities. »

« Jones's previous film had definitely taught us to expect better, and especially since Moon's script was also fairly flawed, it's a shame to see him make so little of what he was given here. »

« On its own merits, Source code is a solid little thriller, although it can't help but feel a little too much like a particularly good episode of The Outher Limits stretched out to feature length. »

« Sous des dehors attrayants, Code source n'est qu'un divertissement grand public qui, une fois l'excitation du visionnement passée, ne laisse rien de mémorable. »

« Source Code is a mind-bending minor classic of its type, a sort of Groundhog Day with terrorism. It's as if The Matrix hopped aboard a rapid-transit line and got derailed into U.S. military bureaucracy. »

« Like the commuter train that much of the film takes place on, SOURCE CODE zips along ably before slowing down and eventually running completely off the tracks. »

« Holes in logic get swept aside by the brisk pace and stimulating tale. And the premise — a man who has to relive the same eight minutes to avert disaster — is more engaging than it sounds. »

« With a twisty, mind-bending plot that frequently changes direction and occasionally overreaches, "Source Code" wouldn't work at all without a cast with the determination and ability to really sell its story. »