Night Train (2009)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Brian King

Writer:

Brian King (writer)

Release Date:

2009 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Greed has its price.

Plot:

Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person...

Plot Keywords:

Train | Trunk | Conductor | Corpse | Black Bra

Cast

Danny Glover	...	Miles
Leelee Sobieski	...	Chloe White
Steve Zahn	...	Peter Dobbs
Matthias Schweighöfer	...	Frankie (as Matthias Schweighoefer)
Takatsuna Mukai	...	Hiro
Togo Igawa	...	Yamashita
Richard O'Brien	...	Mrs. Froy
Jo Marr	...	Mr. Cairo
Constantine Gregory	...	Mr. Gutman
Harry Anichkin	...	Walter
Geoff Bell	...	Detective Melville
Luca Bercovici	...	Man
Marianne Stanicheva	...	Woman (as Mariana Stanisheva)
Dessi Morales	...	Nurse (as Desislava Nikolova-Morales)
Yana Atanasova Popova	...	Little Girl

MPAA:

Rated R for violent content and some language.

Runtime:

Netherlands:83 min

Country:

USA | Germany | Romania

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Bulgaria

Company:

A-Mark Entertainment

Trivia:

The character names of Gutman (Constantine Gregory) and Cairo (Jo Marr) are direct homages to those played by Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Goofs:

Continuity: The Christmas package holding the box moves between scenes. When Steve Zahn first removes the box the package is on the floor, the camera switches to a long shot, we see the package back on the man's lap and so forth throughout the scene of everyone picking up and looking into the box.

Movie Connections:

References The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Simply.... Awful

I wish I could get back those 2 hours I lost watching this movie. From the beginning you can tell that it was low budget. All the snow falling is CGA, and not good CGA. Same for all the shots of the train flying into the night, looks like a bad cartoon. The acting was also awful, except maybe for Danny Glover. But he can't save the movie. The surroundings and atmosphere make it seen like you're watching a theater piece, not a movie.

The plot which at first sounds interesting, will by the end of the movie look like a really bad joke played on us, the viewers.

Complete waste of time ! You have been warned.