Death Train (2003) (V)

User Rating:

2.8/10   

Director:

Yossi Wein

Writer:

Michael D. Weiss (writer)

Release Date:

25 February 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Action

Plot Keywords:

Die Hard Scenario | Train

Cast

Bryan Genesse	...	Ryan
Bentley Mitchum	...	Weaver
Michael Anthony Rosas	...	Salazar
Jaime Anstead	...	Marina
George Stanchev	...	Wizard
Tarri Markell	...	Crystal (as Tarri Markel)
Nikolai Sotirov	...	Carlos (as Nikolay Sotirov)
Ivaylo Geraskov	...	Sikorski (as Ivailo Geraskov)
Bashar Rahal	...	Lopez
Ventzislav Kisyov	...	Rodriguez (as Ventzislav Kisiov)
Atanas Srebrev	...	Jeff
Shelly Varod	...	Jodi
Ivo Tonchev	...	Arthur
Elena Markova	...	Gloria
Jordan Rollins	...	Javier

MPAA:

Rated R for language and non-stop violence.

Runtime:

Brazil:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Germany:18 | USA:R | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (video rating)

Filming Locations:

Bolshevik, Bulgaria

Company:

Martien Holdings A.V.V.

Quotes:

Weaver: [grabbing diamonds] Ohhh...if I were a bitch, I'd cry...!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Soundtrack:

Justified

A Disaster Movie In More Ways Than One

Many of the characters in DEATH TRAIN are just like the ones you`d see in a disaster movie : The young pretty attendant , the young couple in love , the young crippled boy and the man of god . There`s a couple in nuns in there too and I was expecting them to pull out a guitar and give a singalong but fortunately this doesn`t happen . Unfortunately this doesn`t stop DEATH TRAIN from being a bad movie .

As everyone else has noticed ( And unless you`re blind , deaf and dumb it`s impossible not to notice ) DEATH TRAIN is more or less a DIE HARD clone set on a train except it doesn`t have any brain or intentional humour to it . There are laughs of course but I don`t think they were actually in the script . Remember that NAKED GUN film where Frank and the bad guy are shooting at one another behind the bin - the same bin ? well there`s a couple of sequences like that where the hero is in a gun battle with the bad guys and no matter how close they are no one gets shot , at least not untill the script requires someone to die . Plus the film is full of entirely dumb bits like hostages trying to jump the baddies only for them to be shot , this happens several times in fact which led me to ask what on earth made the hostages want to be dead heroes for ? Without doubt the dumbest bit of the film is when the hostages are left unguarded and none of them think about jumping off the train , a train that`s only going 20 mph , this isn`t a continuity error as someone commented , the action switches to the train cab and you can clearly see the speedometer that reads 20 mph

Despite not liking this film I guess it could have been worse - It could have used scenes from UNDER SIEGE 2