Jack the reaper seems that we can have a lot of potential, a reaper of souls of railroad accidents eyes to kill a bus load of teenagers. The reaper character could have been very interesting, but the reaper fails in every aspect. Very little background and no character development make the character irrelevant and unwatchable.
As a teenage slasher film, this film is unwatchable and in alarmingly poor taste. About half the teenage cast are "jocks" who are lazy and bullies, a ditzy blonde, several background female characters who add nothing, but the rest of the teenage cast are persons who have developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, or emotional disabilities. The movie stereotypes teenagers with disabilities in the worst way, making them all victims of bullies, unable to fend or think for themselves, and simply easy targets for railroad jack, the psycho killer. The movie's treatment of characters with disabilities is offensive, stereotypical, and demeaning. Jack the reaper, lacking any substance character, simply kills for no reason. The movies ending wraps nothing up, and was an easy way to let the movies innumerable loose ends hang in the wind.
As a teenage slasher film, this film is unwatchable and in alarmingly poor taste. About half the teenage cast are "jocks" who are lazy and bullies, a ditzy blonde, several background female characters who add nothing, but the rest of the teenage cast are persons who have developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, or emotional disabilities. The movie stereotypes teenagers with disabilities in the worst way, making them all victims of bullies, unable to fend or think for themselves, and simply easy targets for railroad jack, the psycho killer. The movie's treatment of characters with disabilities is offensive, stereotypical, and demeaning. Jack the reaper, lacking any substance character, simply kills for no reason. The movies ending wraps nothing up, and was an easy way to let the movies innumerable loose ends hang in the wind.