Sim1Everything's gonna be alright
January 18th 2012 23:04
Ah, it’s been a while since I finished watching a movie and went: ‘I LIKED that!’. But today, I did. So happy new film year to me and an even better film year to you! May your linen always feel like it’s never been slept in, may no-one ever steal fizzy lifting drink from you and, come what may, I hope you’ll never forget that it’s just a jump to the left and then a step to the right- not in 2012 or all those many years to come.
But back to tonight’s fabulous feature: a mixture between ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’. With maybe just a hint of Fringe-style alternate universes... Can you guess what it is yet?
As much as I enjoyed the weirdness of ‘Donnie Darko’ and the doomsday special effects of ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, I, Miss Fish on Film, hereby confess: I am no fan of Jake Gyllenhaal (if that is indeed how his name is spelt). He always appears to me as if he’d had a personality bypass. Although I know that many critics say exactly that about my hero Keanu. There’s no accounting for taste, I guess. But tonight, Jake was just charming. Yes, that is the word. Not brilliant. Not charismatic. Charming. Of course, it helped that the film had just the right amount of Hollywood schmaltz in it, to appeal to FoF HQ. In fact, it was a spot-on mix of unbelievable (literally), yet, fascinating secret agent plot; heart-rendering human emotions (and I’m not even talking about the ‘romance’ here) and happy ending. In fact, the film blurb I have read has been very confusing- it was going on about falling in love and wanting to save the main lady when in actual fact that was merely a sub-plot. For me, it was all about the human strength and the crazy sci-fi. It was awesome!
I’m sorry for not pointing out particular scenes of importance or passages of brilliant acting, because there were none. In fact, Jake Gyllenhaal (just double-checked the spelling on IMDB.com), Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright made it marvellously clear that they can’t act. But the mixture is what made this film. Bit like a decent Cosmopolitan, you know?
‘Source Code’ has a love story nowhere near as drippy as ‘The Notebook’, a plot nowhere near as complicated as ‘Mission: Impossible’ and sci-fi/ parallel universes/ quantum physics without resorting to monsters, like ‘LOST’. So in case any one of you dear readers is still unclear: Fish on Film hearts ‘Source Code’.
But back to tonight’s fabulous feature: a mixture between ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’. With maybe just a hint of Fringe-style alternate universes... Can you guess what it is yet?
I’m sorry for not pointing out particular scenes of importance or passages of brilliant acting, because there were none. In fact, Jake Gyllenhaal (just double-checked the spelling on IMDB.com), Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright made it marvellously clear that they can’t act. But the mixture is what made this film. Bit like a decent Cosmopolitan, you know?
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