"It got away from you? It's a train, Dewey, not a Chipmunk!"
-Connie
Tony Scott's last film is a train thriller that engrosses you with amazingness. I'm not exactly sure what about it is about this film, but every time I watch it I'm almost instantly sucked into the film. Tony makes trains beautiful, terrifying, thrilling, and above all else monstrous.
My favorite part of the film is the sound. This was the first film that really made me aware of all the sound being put into the film. I swear that it has transcended into it's own character in this film. The runaway train sounds like a wild beast whenever on screen making your skin pop with goosebumps. The music and revving of engines are loud and clear and feel like their own orchestra in this action extravaganza.
This film doesn't have too much on the character side, they tend to brush it off sort of throughout the breaks of the action. What this film excels at is making stopping a rampaging train so fascinating. The editing is fast and the people working at the train stations are really fascinating while they dodge minimal politics and fight their egos.
When you break it down there isn't much to this film, some stuff I'd like to go deeper in (like railroad politics), but this movie is an action thriller from beginning to end that will suck you in and is really gripping. Unfortunately it seems that this film was a failure at the box office and Tony Scott died a few years after this released.
B+
-Connie
Tony Scott's last film is a train thriller that engrosses you with amazingness. I'm not exactly sure what about it is about this film, but every time I watch it I'm almost instantly sucked into the film. Tony makes trains beautiful, terrifying, thrilling, and above all else monstrous.
My favorite part of the film is the sound. This was the first film that really made me aware of all the sound being put into the film. I swear that it has transcended into it's own character in this film. The runaway train sounds like a wild beast whenever on screen making your skin pop with goosebumps. The music and revving of engines are loud and clear and feel like their own orchestra in this action extravaganza.
This film doesn't have too much on the character side, they tend to brush it off sort of throughout the breaks of the action. What this film excels at is making stopping a rampaging train so fascinating. The editing is fast and the people working at the train stations are really fascinating while they dodge minimal politics and fight their egos.
When you break it down there isn't much to this film, some stuff I'd like to go deeper in (like railroad politics), but this movie is an action thriller from beginning to end that will suck you in and is really gripping. Unfortunately it seems that this film was a failure at the box office and Tony Scott died a few years after this released.
B+
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