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This was recommended by a co worker. It is well made thriller. I am glad I went to the cinema today
The premise is one, that anyone who has been following popular culture in the last generation should be aware of. The hero is sent back in time, to relive the last 8 minutes of an event. A train bombing, and to gain information about the act, and its perpetrator . The protagonist is reporting to a US Airforce captain and a mysterious man with a cane.

See Cause and Effect in Star Trek the Next Generation

The Hero like Sam Beckett in Quantum leap, is sent back into another body.  A US army helicopter pilot is sent back into the body of a teacher. Who commutes into Chicago by rail.
The Army pilot, however has only 8 minutes before he is returned to his own time. Or own universe. The film muses that what . He attempts to save the girl, and is killed by an express train. There is nothing the hero can do, but observe.

The female lead's phone plays. ``I am the one and only, by Chesney Hawkes
There are lots of tourist promo shots of Chicago, I miss that city.
We see the hero relieve each moment. The commuter pouring coffee on his feet
The bomb blasts are quite horrific its one of the few times, I have seen this conceit where the hero really seems to suffer. The explosion seemed forgive the understatement painful,

I would have the left the ending a bit more open ended. I might have started with seeing the person, who Captain leaps into on his journey. That said, I enjoyed the film, a lot. Looks like one of my favorites for 2011

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