When I see Jake Gyllenhaal with a beard, I curse the lack of progress in the biological technologies. Don’t give me “oh we have amazing advances every day!” nonsense. I don’t want to fucking hear it. Until I can vat-grow ovaries and have Bearded Gyllenhaal’s children it is all for fucking nothing. Nothing! Seriously though — here is a trailer for Enemy. It is the second flick that Gyllenhaal has cut with Denis Villeneuve; the two of them teamed up last year for the exceptional Prisoners. After watching this trailer, I’m not entirely certain what this movie is about. And I fucking love that.

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I dug Source Code. I love Duncan Jones. I’m totally not interested in a Source Code television show.

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There’s an early episode of Quantum Leap, it might even be the pilot, where Sam Beckett leaps into the past and, despite being warned not to by Al, calls his dad. In Source Code, director Duncan Jones delivers an obvious nod to this heavy Leap moment – even having Scott Bakula voice the dad of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Colter character. That great little moment in the film is just one of the reasons to give up an hour and half of your life and go see Source Code – despite it’s flawed final minutes.

Jones’ sophomore scifi effort (his first being 2009’s bitchin’ Moon) also features a male protagonist who should stop trusting “the man.” Colter is an army helicopter pilot who awakens to find himself on the Chicago commuter rail, sitting across from a woman he’s never met who keeps calling him Steve. Manic and confused, Colter tries to make of sense of his Twilight Zone plight…and that’s when the train blows up.

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The second trailer for Duncan Jones’ upcoming flick Source Code dropped today. He’s only directed one movie, but I’m already a frothing Jones fanboy. If you use your powers of intellect, you’ll figure out that means I’m pretty excited for anything regarding this movie. The premise is gimmicky sci-fi, and that’s cool by me. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a character who is inserted into the last eight minutes of a man’s life on a train that was victim of a bombing. He has to try over and over again to figure out who the culprit is, while he falls in love with an obviously doomed passenger.

Cue meditations on fate, destiny, the ability to change the future, et cetera.

It also reminds me a lot of Assassin’s Creed and the animus, but that’s another story.

Hit the jump for the trailer.

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