Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
AutCuddly
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Monkeywess
This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind
StuOz
Two trains are about to collide and Lloyd Bridges is in the control room trying to sort things out.I am a 1970s disaster movie lover, and I finally saw this long lost film on YouTube in 2012 or 2013. I think it has been taken down now. I remember being thrilled by the screening.The thing that lingers in the mind is the amusing Airplane-type character played by Lloyd Bridges. Shatner is funny as well.Being a TV movie, don't expect any lavish special effects, just enjoy the ride and the funny quirks of the people in the film.
InzyWimzy
Ah, you have to love the 70s. Time of the made for TV movies.This train tale of terror includes a lot of separate scenes cut together to appear like some semblance of an actual movie. Scenes range from railroad track construction, several train car interiors, and my favorite: the people gathering to protest. Why or what they are protesting is not really explained but you have to love the shoddy signs and workmanship.The acting does its best to keep the movie bustling along the tracks. Lloyd Bridges is angry, annoyed and tries to take control pretty much in every scene he is in. I knew I recognized E.G. Marshall from somewhere but didn't recognize him without cockroaches crawling all over as from his performance in the classic Creepshow. E.G. and Lloyd butting heads trying to find a solution provide some highlights.Bill Shatner saves this from being a true disaster. I can never get enough seeing Bill smoke cigarettes, do his mack daddy Kirk routine, and eluding the authorities all at once. He pretty much stands out whenever on screen and the epic finale makes this worth the ride.Take the ticket for this 70s version of Speed on trains..except it's better.
zillabob
Fun stuff for it's time. An ABC Sunday Night Movie, made by Shatner largely after he completed principal photography on STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE, in 1978. I happened to be on an Amtrak train in 1979,going to a "Star Trek" Convention. The conductor explained to me that that very route-Rhode Island/Connecticut to NYC, was actually the very route and train(Amtrak) on which much of the film was shot, including several stunt sequences involving a small bridge. Many "out the window" reaction shots and some of the interaction was filmed with Connecticut whizzing by the windows. The crew apparently rented out three of the cars to do some quick filming on, however the conductor had access to all of them, so he got to meet the cast used in the sequences.Of course it was an "all star film" like many of the time. And miniatures were used in the film as well. An interesting anecdote.
tedg
Spoilers herein.This is surely one of the worst films I have seen of any type, made worse in my mind because of the wasted use of the FX budget.But it has Yvette Mimieux. She's truly lovely and was talented, but lost her commitment years before. By this time, she was casually wading through TeeVee pap. Contrast her to Shatner who never, ever showed talent.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 4: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
