Saw this last night in a suburban London cinema where, to the film's credit, it was unusually a full house. Then the opening titles rolled, and that's it for the positives.
Now being a bit knowledgeable about the rail side of things, I'll just leave all the impossible aspects to one side. All I will say is that all the professionals in the industry will cringe on seeing this.
I suppose the overriding impression is that both editor and continuity must have been out to lunch instead of attending to their tasks. Claimed speeds completely different to what the film was showing, and so on. If railroads were run by people with such a lack of ability or attention to detail there would be train wrecks every day. News helicopters shown flying so close to the train, and to each other, and performing aerial stunts as if they were at an air show; they would have immediately crashed.
The way in which vast numbers of emergency, law enforcement and television news crews were all rustled up in minutes all along the tracks just looks beyond belief. The extras bill must have been most of the movie's budget.
Then there's the direction nonsenses. In attempting to deliberately derail the train, being right next to the tracks there would be the last place you would want to be. And yet a whole line of police cruisers were parked feet from the tracks. They were of course all destroyed. Meanwhile our hero in the pickup truck chasing the train is "assisted" by a yet more police cars following over rough ground, one of which spectacularly overturns just through stupid driving. This is meant to be a movie drama, not The Dukes of Hazzard.
Now being a bit knowledgeable about the rail side of things, I'll just leave all the impossible aspects to one side. All I will say is that all the professionals in the industry will cringe on seeing this.
I suppose the overriding impression is that both editor and continuity must have been out to lunch instead of attending to their tasks. Claimed speeds completely different to what the film was showing, and so on. If railroads were run by people with such a lack of ability or attention to detail there would be train wrecks every day. News helicopters shown flying so close to the train, and to each other, and performing aerial stunts as if they were at an air show; they would have immediately crashed.
The way in which vast numbers of emergency, law enforcement and television news crews were all rustled up in minutes all along the tracks just looks beyond belief. The extras bill must have been most of the movie's budget.
Then there's the direction nonsenses. In attempting to deliberately derail the train, being right next to the tracks there would be the last place you would want to be. And yet a whole line of police cruisers were parked feet from the tracks. They were of course all destroyed. Meanwhile our hero in the pickup truck chasing the train is "assisted" by a yet more police cars following over rough ground, one of which spectacularly overturns just through stupid driving. This is meant to be a movie drama, not The Dukes of Hazzard.