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Final Run (1999)
This movie has a crisis of genre identity
The real interesting disaster of this movie has nothing to do with the scenario advertised on the box, but should rather be read between the lines -or seen between the frames as might be more appropriate to the medium- as it is one that happens to the movie in stead of in it. The breaking of trees and rock that occurs in the in-scenario disaster pales by comparison to the breaking of laws of physics (not to mention engineering safety codes in how that crazy train is designed). From the 'good disaster movie' point of view, this is the greatest of all mistakes, because a disaster movie should present the audience with something that they can imagine to really happen, in the real world. When the storyline can only be held up by overruling normal reality with the kind of alternate physics usually reserved for action movies, then a decent producer should admit failure at producing a disaster movie, increase the special effects and relabel it as an action movie or, if lacking budget for that, a spoof or persiflage.