I really like this movie.
Does any one else?
shareGood action film, to be sure. Those helicopter sequences are excellent. There are a number of holes that should have been patched, though...
Thanks,
Ryan
Such as?
shareI remember it. Spring of 1991, and me, then 11 and a half years old. My parents brought a video cassette player. A neighbour sold out his VHS cassettes collection. I brought Return Of The Jedi, some Bond flick (cannot remember which one) and this one. I watched this, I remember, on a Sunday afternoon.
An experience. The music (excellent!!!!), the aerial photography... It shocked me. For a week I was unable to talk about anything else.
I watched this far too many times to count. I remember that at some time, I was watching this at least once a week, making my parents and friends crazy.
Good to know that somebody else really likes this movie.
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this is just a unique classic film and would be hard to believe that only 3 people like this film. Trust me, this is unforgettable film to many of my friends or people i know.
shareI also like this film, I'ts an enjoyable lazy sat afternoon classic!
Hopefully we'll get another dvd re-issue
I just watched this film for the first time ever tonight. Yeah, I quite liked it as well.
shareI loved this movie many years ago as a child, being a train buff at the time(and still a bit now, buying and selling model trains on eBAy), and still love it today, in spite of its cheesiness. Take into account what movies have stolen plot ideas from it, and admittedly, my first novel RESURGENCE(www.lulu.com/resurgence) borrowed a bioweapon on a train plot here but brought it up to date, and consider there was no such thing as cGI FX in 1976, the climax looks hot! TAke a look a the stellar cast which today's budget constraits could not afford now, the awful song(clock the seated guitarist's technique, that's no Maybelle Carter Scratch, ha ha) typical of many a disaster movie then(re Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno songs by Al Kasha/Joel Hirschorn), the irritating child('Catherina! Let the gentleman alone! cough cough), and a genuine sense of urgency that keeps one watching and you have an ahead of its time potboiler.
Clock the music by Jerry Goldsmith as well, a score that fits with the action. And the main theme? James Blunt ripped it off . . .
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One phone call - and a train carrying deadly disease could pass thru the Iron Curtain? In the 70s? Too simple.
Some goofs are there too. I noticed 2 goofs personally.
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I wish you a long life full of suspension of disbelief. That will help you cherish works of fiction for what they are.
If art would simply portray life as it really is, it would not be art.
Michel Couzijn
VERY well said my friend. Your words should be the motto of this site! 8=))
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