Last Passenger (2013) User Reviews

Tense and Effective Low Budget Thriller

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 20 October 2015]

The widow Dr. Lewis Shaler (Dougray Scott) and his son Max (Joshua Kaynama) are traveling late night by train to London. Lewis will leave Max with his grandparents to attend victims of a great accident at the hospital where he works. When Max accidentally spills coffee on the coat of the promoter Sarah Barwell (Kara Tointon), Lewis is embarrassed and offers to pay for the cleaning of her coat. Soon they start a conversation and feel attracted for each other. When the train stops, Lewis sees a man on the track apparently fixing the brakes. When the trains moves, he sees another man crawling on the tracks. Lewis seeks out the train guard (Samuel Geker-Kawle) and finds that he is missing. Further, the train does not stop at the stations. He tries to contact the driver that asks how many passengers are still on board and nothing else. Lewis contacts the passengers Jan Klimowski (Iddo Goldberg), Peter Carmichael (David Schofield) and Elaine Middleton (Lindsay Duncan) and they team-up expecting to stop the train. Soon they conclude that the train has no brake and the driver is a suicidal. What will happen to them?

"Last Passenger" is a tense and effective low budget thriller. The story takes place in a train along 97 minutes running time and is never boring. The chemistry between Dougray Scott and the gorgeous Kara Tointon is amazing and their romance is pleasant to see. The conclusion is a little confused but this film is surprisingly good. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "O Último Passageiro" ("The Last Passenger")

Something Fresh

[andrewtilling-586-256157 · 7/10 · 8 May 2013]

From the start Last Passenger feels like the kind of suspense film you don't see any more. There is character development. And relationships I care about between the people on the train. I was really interested in how these strangers are getting along when along comes the threat. I still had The Birds on my mind and have always loved how the you get on the edge of your seat simply on the love interest alone, well before the birds start to attack. Versus something like Hostel where they rush to the danger, don't set up the characters, you don't care what happens to them, and you'd just like them to hurry up and live or die so you can go home. Last Passenger gets back to the Hitchcockian "build". I really liked Dougray Scott. I had only seen him in smaller roles but he totally owns this film. I also really like Kara Tointon who I hadn't seen before and I not sure why. She's great. Even the little boy is fantastic. He actually reminded me of the kid that played Danny in The Shining. Just a little less creepy. Anyway... good acting, cool story and a fun idea.

Reasonably good single-location thriller

[Leofwine_draca · 7/10 · 30 September 2014]

LAST PASSENGER is a British movie and a low-budget addition to the string of "single location" thrillers. In this one, a handful of passengers are stranded on an abandoned train at night, a train that's being driven by a man who may or may not be out of his mind. What ensues is reasonably good given the set-up, with plenty of suspense and low-rent heroics as those trapped try to work out a way to improve their situation.

One of the real strengths of LAST PASSENGER lies in the calibre of the cast members. Dougray Scott is a particularly dependable face when it comes to genre fare (such as the lacklustre DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS miniseries) and he acquits himself well with the family-man-turned-group-leader role here. Kara Tointon is little more than a pretty face, but there also decent turns from the reliable David Schofield and Lindsay Duncan. Newcomer Iddo Goldberg is a hoot as the volatile Pole who plays his own part in the proceedings.

A few elements of LAST PASSENGER are a little cheesy, such as some of the CGI effects, and there's a nod to UNDER SIEGE 2 at one point which destroys the carefully-maintained realism seen elsewhere. But for the most part this is gripping, tension-filled stuff and a film whose restraint works in its favour.

Better than expected.

[paulclaassen · 6/10 · 18 June 2018]

The characters were very sweet and likable. The film was suspenseful and mysterious, and slowly but surely built to an exciting action climax. The film is essentially about a man on a suicide mission and the people along the way for the ride, although not by choice. We never really see the suicidal driver or learn anything about him, but the film really is more about the victims and how they react and act in desperate times. Dougray Scott made a credible hero. The film features some really great visual effects.

I really enjoyed this.

A perfectly good movie, ignore some idiots on here

[barry-steers · 6/10 · 25 October 2014]

I have just watched this movie and although it's never going to be a classic I considered it a perfectly good watch for its 1hr 36 minutes. The premise of the movie is not original nor is the progression right through to the end but as a complete movie it delivers most respectfully. Naturally you will get the anorak geeks on here slating the movie for technical inaccuracies but if I wanted to know the exact workings of a train I'd not have any friends and sit on a train platform with a Thermos of tea and a note pad like these 'Billy-No-Mates' do. For normal people I want to just be immersed in a film for 1.5 hours. I thought the acting was OK and contrary to one reviewer from Bermuda, Dougray Scott's voice is clear and not a mumble, nor is is it a strange accent. Typical of someone not from the UK thinking all Scots should sound like either Billy Connolly or Mrs Doubtfire! Yes I sound like Dick Van Dyke from Mary Poppins because I come from London! All in all a good film to pass an afternoon with.

I liked it!

[daggersineyes · 5/10 · 22 October 2014]

There is nothing wrong with this movie and it's a darned sight better than many others out there. Good acting, excellent FX (for it's low budget), good suspense, explosions, interesting characters - a love story & a cute kid. What more do people want?

I really don't understand the angry hate being thrown at that poor child actor - guys, he's a 7 year old CHILD! ROFL Are you expecting an Oscar- worthy performance? I actually think he did an outstanding job and was very believable unlike many of the Hollywood child-faves who so often come across as way too adult and precocious to convince me.

As for all the high-horse comments about the accuracy of certain details - come on... really? Personally I couldn't give a hoot about what trains run where or how railway couplings really work and know nothing about London's train service or how far things are from other things in jolly old England. If you do then congratulations, you know stuff I don't. But it doesn't really matter in the slightest for this movie and viewers like me don't know or care. It's fiction, roll with it, I don't know of any movie that's 100% believable or factual, not even documentaries.

Anyway - if you're looking for a light thriller that's well produced and a little different rent it and enjoy. It's not the greatest thriller ever made but it's not a bad little flick.

Very exciting train trip

[akir-53426 · 7/10 · 3 April 2016]

Yeah, I've hunted these "one filming location/only few actors" kind of movies lately and this ABSOLUTELY fits in nicely in this category.

I actually doesn't care about plots in this kind of movies, but I must say that, there still COULD be something else in the movie. Maybe something more at the beginning and in the end. Little subplot would be nice. And to be honest, I don't like the idea of driver and his thoughts being unrevealed.

I think those are the reason why this got 7/10 from me. The rest of the film was fantastic! The nice and calm atmosphere before the panic starts fade in and you really start to get thrilled. Even though this is quite "boring" movie. The atmosphere build up nicely and doesn't actually fall flat at any point, which is understandable of course.

I liked it. No plots or anything behind this but still movie is nicely executed. I recommend if you're liking real thrillers (and solid plot is not relevant).

Simple and well done

[planktonrules · 1 July 2013]

"Last Passenger" begins with a doctor (Dougray Scott) and his son (Joshua Kaynama) getting on a train in England. They soon strike up a conversation with a very lovely young lady (Kara Tointon) and it really looks like it's going to be a romance film. You like the people and hope that they'll hook up by the end of the movie. But in a great case of misdirection, the film has other plans! Soon the doctor gets a call from the hospital—they need him as soon as possible and he'll have to drop off the boy at his grandparents. But it's still a while until they get to his stop and he's obviously tired, so the nice lady tells him to take a nap—she'll watch the boy. Again, here is a nice case of misdirection—the lady is NOT a serial killer or kidnapper. Instead, the surprise comes later, after the doctor awakens. His stop is nearing but he notices that almost all the passengers are gone and the train is NOT stopping at the stations! Soon it becomes apparent that the train is either unmanned or some crazy person is hurtling the train towards oblivion. And, the few passengers aboard and the people outside the train seem unable to do anything—as the train is a diesel and is racing towards the end of the line. What's next? See this film for yourself.

As I mentioned above, although the story is simple, there are some nice cases of misdirection—which I really appreciated. Additionally, although I didn't recognize any of these actors, for relative unknowns they sure did great. I particularly liked Scott—he was nice looking but no pretty boy and did a very nice job in the lead. In fact, all the actors (including Iddo Goldberg, David Schofield and Lindsay Duncan) were excellent and having 'normal' faces in these parts instead of big-name stars was a plus, as it made the film seem a lot more realistic. As for the direction and cinematography, these were big pluses—and you wonder HOW they managed to make the film in such a confined set, as ALL but the final seconds of the film are aboard a train. Finally, the music was great—and really helped create a tense mood throughout. Overall, an exciting film that I hope gets wide distribution, as it really deserves to be seen.

Nobody's this daft

[johan-77905 · 2/10 · 6 February 2019]

It stops and nobody gets off at the back of the train? They uncouple the wagon and the moron doctor is on the wrong side? Seriously?

Idiotic script.

...and it rides and it rides

[bowmanblue · 6/10 · 19 May 2014]

As amazing as it seems, Britain has managed to churn out a B-movies that doesn't include a single zombie, no (middle-class actors playing) cockney gangsters and not a reel of found footage in sight. Instead, what we have here is a kind of 'Speed' film.

Dougray Scott plays a single father, who's taking his young son on the train just before Christmas. Unfortunately for him and the handful of passengers left on board (including the single female of appropriate age who just so happens to find single fathers REALLY attractive), the train refuses to stop and they must work out a way of getting off before it smashes into whatever there is at the end of train tracks in Britain (a wall of spikes, perhaps? I don't actually know).

So, what you have is a reasonably passable British thriller, which, at some points, manages to hit the right notes. The train is a familiar setting (at least for us Brits, anyway) and so makes a relatable place (plus I'm guessing it was a pretty cheap set for the film-makers). However, unlike Keanu Reeves' classic action movie, where the bus couldn't slow down and was in perilous danger at every turn, the train just stays on the tracks. Effectively, the few passengers left on board could just sit around in relative comfort for most of the movie, only really needing to figure out a way of getting off five minutes before the end. Therefore, you have a fair amount of time where they're doing just that.

The other downside is the kid. Yes, I know kids in films get a bad name, but this one really isn't that good. Luckily, he's not in it that much, but when he is you'll wish he wasn't.

Overall, not bad for a film on the cheap. If you're bored of zombies, gangsters and found footage B-movies you may enjoy this one (just don't dwell on the slightly dodgy computer special effects when the train catches fire).

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popcorn-friendly fayre nothing more (nothing less)

[marclandsberg · 5/10 · 24 August 2015]

Dougray Scott is a fantastic actor and I always look out for him in films (check out new town killers in which he is mesmeric). So this film stayed above average - just - due to his presence. aside from that it is an average thriller, not edge of your seat stuff (train or otherwise) but definitely worth a view if there's nothing else doing. i think it is unfair to mark this down anymore and anyone who totally disses this film does not realise how many truly poor movies there are out there and this is definitely not one of them. Think "Speed" without the gorgeousness of keanu or sandra nor the mental insanity of denis hopper at his best. So if you can get over that, you should be fairly entertained. The direction and pacing is good, the characterisation is also above average.

Great thriller that took me by surprise!

[Crossinski · 8/10 · 8 May 2013]

Saw this as a preview at Pinewood Studios recently and was caught by surprise at how accomplished it is as a first movie. Director and co- screenwriter, Omid Nooshin has crafted an intelligent and genuinely suspenseful take on a (to be fair) not-so-original idea – the runaway train.

Populated by believable characters, the train journey gets underway and a clever introduction of the various relationships ensues. The number of passengers on board dwindles to an eclectic few, seemingly in real time, before this familiar and very British late train to Kent is invaded by the plot of a Hollywood Blockbuster. And this merger is the heart and soul of the piece – a 'what if?' scenario that sneaks out of nowhere, pulling the rug on what you thought you were watching.

If I had to level any major criticism it would be that the films ultimate ambitions are occasionally betrayed by its lack of budget, but don't let that put you off – a number of creative decisions were probably based around what couldn't be afforded and, in my opinion, are improved by the inability to throw lavish visual effects at the screen. What we are left with is a taut, claustrophobic thriller that's hard to second guess.

The film makers influences are easy to spot, the 'Dual' like scenario and the rattling interplay between a collection of disparate ('Jaws'- like) characters screams early Spielberg, whilst the slow build of simmering tension, as the reality of the situation takes hold, evokes the sensibilities of Hitchcock, as does the Herrmann-esque score. The setting doesn't stray from the confines of the train, which in a way becomes a character itself, although thankfully it never feels too static, nor becomes stale. This is a thriller that takes its time to present a credible realism – all the better so that when the brief flashes of chaos and action do erupt we are invested in the characters lives and the predicament they face becomes a life threatening battle for survival with, only too real, motive and consequence.

To reveal the details of some of the emotionally charged scenes would be remiss, save to say that Dougray Scott turns in a performance of restrained gravitas that recalls the promise of his earlier work. In fact the cast seem uniformly intent on selling the danger and urgency of the piece.

All in all, I found Last Passenger to be a thoroughly entertaining film that I'll be seeking out again when it's released on the big screen in the UK.

More than a train wreck. Just not quite enough more.

[davejones · 6/10 · 30 November 2014]

The people who made Last Passenger are clearly fans of classic thrillers and have studied the form of their art. The direction, casting and acting are excellent. The look of the film and the level of special effects is impressive, considering the budget. And what a great score! I haven't heard a soundtrack for a thriller this good in decades. IMHO, it's the single best thing about this film.

I liked all the characters. I was not bothered, as some other reviewers were, by the absence of any attempt to explain the bad guy's motives. Do we ever understand the motives of these monsters? The writers made the decision to make him simply a malevolent force, and I have no problem with that. It's sufficient that he does what he does. I was with this film and on board for the ride from the start.

Unfortunately, the script has a common earmark of films written and directed by the same person: The plot just isn't good enough. There are several junctures in the story where a director would have told the writer (had they been two separate people), "You've got to do better than this." Instead, I'm guessing he said to himself, "I'll direct this so well that no one will notice."

Well, we did notice. We noticed that the female lead, as appealing as she is, is given nothing to do in the A story except babysit. We noticed that (as one of the other reviewers here put it) the grandmother character's sole function appears to be to die (after some babysitting). The actresses in this film were really given thankless roles (except when they're thanked for babysitting). And yes, we did notice that, in the end, the main character's solution to his problem is simply to jump from the train (moving at about 90 m.p.h). And he lives! Somehow. Because . . he's the protagonist?

Not good enough.

A thriller like this runs on a series of escalating dilemmas and solutions. The dilemmas must be dire (which the filmmakers managed). The solutions have to be a few degrees cleverer than any of us would come up with in the moment. This is especially true in a thriller with a premise we've seen more than a few times. The writers are obligated to come up with at least one solution that is smarter than the solutions presented in all of those other runaway train stories that came before theirs. And they did come up with one such solution--the fire and fire-extinguisher idea of blowing up the deck between train cars so that they can access the coupling. It stretched credulity a little bit, but at least it was clever. And original. Bravo!

Unfortunately, that's followed by the really lame solution of just jumping from the speeding train--which is what was left with the audience as the credits rolled.

It just falls short. Heh. Kind of like a couple of characters at the climax.

Goofs and flaws galore

[jakeonstage · 1/10 · 13 June 2014]

Without giving anything away and me being a stickler for reality even in the most unrealistic of movies this runaway train would have fallen into the English Channel by the time the passengers did their stuff.

Before the film gets going (between London and Tunbridge Wells)a journey that takes less than an hour and they have had a few good kips in between like they are crossing Canada instead of south east England! And where did they get this train??? Never seen any rolling stock like that in the UK.

And not one person from BTP or Network Rail or BR seemed to notice the train was a runaway. Thoroughly daft movie.

Surprisingly good independent cinema!

[filmliebhaber-tom · 10 June 2013]

PLOT

Lewis Shaler (Dougray Scott) is a busy doctor and a single father. On his way home with his toddler son he checks into the last train to London where he meets an cute stranger (Kara Tointon). They start feeling attracted to one another but the fling does not last long. As the train does not reach its destination, the emergency brakes seem not to work and with no travel attendant in sight a few passengers start sensing evil. A suicidal madman has taken control of the train planning to crash into sure death, killing everyone aboard with him. Will the passengers be able to escape their fate?

REVIEW

Revisiting the better horror flicks of decades gone, it's quite obvious many have been made by young directors without large portions of previous directing chops. Especially within the boundaries of the horror genre a trend switching focus from commercial mainstream fare to financially modest independent productions is in effect. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing. LAST PASSENGER, under review here, also is one of those spirited efforts brought to life without millions of Dollars but nevertheless presenting the guts enough to push the audience's needle deep into the red. Director slash co-writer OMID NOOSHIN, last ploughing the fields of the short film, uses his first feature film to prove that minimalist storytelling and a handful of well written and executed ideas suffice to manufacture a nerve wrecking piece of thriller cinema. Presumably British producer UK FILM COUNCIL (THE IRON LADY, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN) had the same impression and took care of the financial side.

LAST PASSENGER has the spectator witness the helpless interactions of a group of panic stricken travellers doing their utmost to regain control of the train gone high speed coffin and prevent it from killing everybody. Director OMID NOOSHIN tries his best, sticking to a realist approach. Sure, in the beginning the people aboard fall victim to ye olde behavioural patterns seen in many a genre trip before but over the course of the film the plot takes a healthy turn and the rare occurrence of an ensemble cast without a total jerk in their midst can be spotted. The passengers' behaviour seems fully understandable, their actions are depicted authentically to a degree which has the spectator go introspect and question his or her own possible ways when facing the desperate and nightmarish scenario of THE LAST PASSENGER. Even when taking into account the not all too new basic idea of the movie and the certain amount of time the film takes to equip the characters with the mental tools needed to solve the problems posed, NOOSHIN easily manages to conjure an atmosphere of claustrophobia which perfectly emphasizes the basic mood of the movie. It is not the lack of space in the train building tension, it's the desperation and helplessness among the group of protagonists who seem to be clueless how to stop the train. For those who – especially towards the film's adrenaline rush middle part - can't bear staring at the damned doing what they can to undock the wagons: Of course the film manoeuvres towards a happy end.

However, before the soothing credits roll, film fans will be part of a grade A suspense thrill ride. If you fancy entertaining thriller cinema this one's for you. Thrills lightly marred by budgetary restrictions but flawlessly put to film. Especially regarding the debut factor.

So hop in, next stop: LAST PASSENGER. Have a great ride!

THE BOTTOM LINE:

Sweat-inducing suspense fare, not for the faint of heart. A film for moviegoers who dig impeccably directed pieces employing a gradual increasing of thrills by the minute. Surprisingly good independent cinema!

Manages to be completely ridiculous at the same time as being completely entertaining!

[colinmetcalfe · 7/10 · 2 September 2014]

As a few other reviewers have said once it gets going it's a great ride and I agree. At first I was put off by the first few scenes featuring Scott and Tointon, they seemed stilted, a bit wooden even. She flirts with him from the off, which is of course what all beautiful professional women do on London commuter trains – flirt with total strangers!

Of course I'm forgetting he tells her he is a doctor and has a little boy with him (I must try that then) but it still seemed too simple, too straightforward, almost as if they wanted to create their relationship immediately and get it out of the way, which, when it's two of your main protagonists I think is a mistake.

The other characters are a bit 'cut out and keep' as well and I didn't really see the point of Lesley Duncan, she seemed to be solely there to die!

Everything else though that other reviewers seemed to be unhappy about: the undisclosed motives of the hijacker; incorrect rolling stock features; the fact that it was set in 2004, didn't bother me at all. Although I must confess I chuckled when the fire extinguisher was supposed to have blown that great big hole in the train floor. In reality it would have probably ruptured at one point and then whizzed around the cabin mutilating the cast!

Also the magic show - really? In that situation? C'mon, but as I said I went with it all and enjoyed the whole ridiculous hokum.

Also should have won the award for 'the best special effects on a small budget' (if such an award exists!).

Decent low budget light thriller..

[csab-39797 · 6/10 · 5 May 2019]

The entire movie takes place on a train, with the focus being on 6 passengers. Some unknown person takes control of the train and the passengers have to try and find a way of stopping the train. It's a very simple story line which lacks some key information that one would want to know in a movie like this (I don't care about the train mechanics personally as most people wouldn't know the difference), I'm talking about the story development. We never find out why the guy took the train, there really is no urgency seen in the side of law enforcement or train officials trying to stop the train, only one person uses their cell phone to contact the police. It almost seemed like it wasn't a big deal that someone hijacked the train and was driving it 100mph for no reason. Otherwise, the acting was good enough, the characters were likable and the concept was good. This is a movie that could be redone with more meat added and be very good.

Horrible waste of 97 minutes

[jsudberry · 1/10 · 17 June 2014]

97 minutes of boring repetitious, old plot except that it lacks a reason WHY. I guess that's the mystery part. Decent acting but horrible writing and directing. A time line that is out of whack. You are left wondering WHY the train was jacked. Why these people were still on the train and WHO did it. Noticed is opened and closed in 1 weekend in US making less than 10K. No wondering why on that. 97 minutes of boring repetitious, old plot except that it lacks a reason WHY. I guess that's the mystery part. Decent acting but horrible writing and directing. A time line that is out of whack. You are left wondering WHY the train was jacked. Why these people were still on the train and WHO did it. Noticed is opened and closed in 1 weekend in US making less than 10K. No wondering why on that.

Without good story structure this train is off the rails.

[face-819-933726 · 6/10 · 28 November 2013]

People are strange, when your a stranger on a train. This is a completely unambitious movie that has some good tense moments in it. Nice first act, really hard to tell what is going to happen exactly, and who is good, or not. The cast is all very good, a really late night ride gone so completely wrong. Dull as dirt a lot of the time though in truth. You will Enjoy this movie for the characters, and the suspense, but the story is so underdeveloped that there is just not enough there. You feel like it's Jason or Michael Myers driving the train, even the truck driver from Joy Ride, because you never really get any satisfaction or motive from him. Better than that Pelham 123 remake though.

Very slow and illogical

[flemur13013 · 1/10 · 13 August 2017]

It starts out with about 20-30 minutes of people riding on a train, which was pretty fascinating because they talk to each other, a bit like regular people on a regular train, but more boring because they're just reading a boring script.

Then the train speeds up a bit, I guess. The passengers never seem very worried about it. They try to break into the engineer's compartment but give up in a few minutes. They don't try to pry the door open, they just bang on it and then give up.

Then they try to uncouple their car, but again give up in a few minutes. There's a piece of metal covering the coupling that looks like two people could pull it up and bend it out of the way, but they never try. One guy goes outside, then gives up after a few minutes and comes back in - just in time! A tunnel!

After that they sit around drinking and telling jokes while waiting for a special time to decouple the car: the special time is when they're going uphill, which would, in reality, make the train car harder to decouple.

Then they try to blow up the coupling by putting a fire extinguisher over it, covering it with cloth, pouring a few ounces of booze on it and setting fire to it.

Those few ounces of alcohol somehow set fire to the metal of the train and the metal continues to burn for the rest of the movie, finally rapidly spreading to the front of the train like gunpowder, for no apparent reason, then making the train engine explode while the one guy finally jumps off - right before the train stops.

It was awful.

like it for what it is - different than just about every Hollywood thriller.

[witster18 · 6/10 · 10 March 2015]

This is a British "B"movie thriller. This film has a few high's and low's, but overall it's a decent, albeit unconventional/throwback thriller.

The good is that the two main leads here do a fine job. The cast is really only comprised of about 5 speaking parts. Dougray Scott is always good, but Kara Tointon is a pleasant surprise here. SHe looks a bit like Sienna Miller, and might actually be an even better actress. No doubt she looks the part.

The film is a bit of a slow-burner - taking at least 45 minutes to get to the meat of what's going-on.

I like the idea of Iddo Goldberg's character in the film(Jan Klimowski). A neat backstory for a character who isn't what he appears to be in the film. The only issue I have is that his Russian accent fizzles into western European English at the end of each sentence. The accent was 'a miss'.

You might give this a spin as a decent passer of the time, but I wouldn't go in expecting one of those blow-you-away films that you've never heard of, because it will definitely fall short of that expectation.

The film does have 'a little' style, and the action scenes are actually admirably done for what they had to work with.

62/100

some better music throughout would have added A LOT, while I didn't mind the unconventional approach of no explanation of the villain in this tale - I still would have liked a little 'after-the-fact' finishing scene. It would have been nice to see Sarah and Lewis off the train, if only for a minute. There was a brewing chemistry there, and it would have been nice to see Lewis' character come full-circle with his personal life.

The runaway train went down the track....

[Saiph90 · 1/10 · 31 May 2014]

First the positives I did not have to pay any extra apart from the ever increasing Sky monthly subscription, the bad news I feel short changed. So here is the story a train is taken over by a deranged person and driven at high speed while half a dozen people try to stop it. Unfortunately the film lacks pace, script, twists or anything which makes it slightly interesting. Poor Kara Tointon must have thought she was reading Shakespeare in Eastenders when looking at this script, the poor girl is left trying to convey emotions with ever increasing stranger facial expressions which borders on gurning.

You have to care about the characters in a movie and half way through I was hoping the driver would put his foot down and plunge them all into the English Channel, the doctor takes stoic to new levels and explores all the emotions from a to b. The highlight was singing along to the Bee Gees 'Staying alive' as the stoic doctor tried to revive the pegged out women in the carriage.

Another point do trains like this still exist? I have never been on a train like this in 30 years. Sorry this is a awful film, no plot no twists exceptionally poor script. I don't mind filling the gaps in a film and don't need spoon feeding but who, why does the man kill the driver and take over ? we are clueless even at the end. At the end we a left with the ludicrous idea the stoic doctor can simply throw himself off a speeding train and get up and dust himself down. Try to avoid this film as you will not get the time back.

Have to say...

[blanche-2 · 8/10 · 22 October 2014]

Lately I haven't been able to concentrate on most movies. I finally decided that I had seen so many films that my Netflix list had moved into second and third tier films. While "Last Passenger" isn't the be-all and end-all of action/adventure films, it was certainly entertaining and exciting.

Most of these types of films, including high-end James Bond movies, have pretty preposterous plots and action sequences. It's been pointed out that this film is very inaccurate as far as the mechanics of trains, the train stops on this particular line, and today's fail-safe mechanisms. The average person doesn't know that.

This is a wild film, highly improbable, and thrilling, with attractive stars Dougray Scott and Kara Toinin. The ruggedly-handsome Scott does a job as a loving father determined to protect his son, and Kara Toinin is both gorgeous and sympathetic. The two have great chemistry. Lindsay Duncan, whom I saw in person in Private Lives, is a marvelous actress. Though she has a small part here, she's wonderful and classy. I enjoyed all the acting, even if the little boy here is no Leonardo di Caprio in the making.

I get a little tired of people criticizing films as if, for instance, a movie like this is supposed to be Citizen Kane when it isn't. I don't understand taking a film apart frame by frame and criticizing it, unless, of course, it's a boring, horrid, pretentious film. However, no one seems to do that with boring, horrid, pretentious films. When I look at IMDb reviews, those are the films that are hailed as "classics" that "demand multiple viewings." Well, David Lynch movies might demand multiple viewings, but others don't -- by me, anyway, since often I can't through five minutes of them. Sometimes it's enough that a film is fast moving, entertaining. where one cares about the characters.

So there, I liked it. Chacun à son goût.

Pretty good, Like if Hitchcock wanted to make Under Siege 2.

[subxerogravity · 6/10 · 3 April 2015]

Thought it would be more action packed based on the poster, But it was mores suspenseful like Duel on a train or the Hitcher on a train.

A weird story about an unknown villain who hijacks a train that still has 6 passengers on it as the train speeds its way to the last stop. These passengers have to figure out what's going on so they can get off.

It's all about the tension of this moment. It unites them from strangers to allies it brings out their dark sides and shows what their made of.

Very different from what was expected but very good. Hitchcock good.

it's hard not to contain spoilers, not that it will lessen the enjoyment

[dwuksta · 2/10 · 11 January 2014]

We are directed thru this shambles from the perspective of a doctor who is in a hurry to get to his place of work. He has a son and meets an attractive female on a train. Other stereotypical characters are introduced to raise our suspicions of possibly some sort of terrorist act further in the proceedings. The train fails to stop,then there appears to be staff missing from the train, and pathetic attempts are made to find out who is in the drivers seat. They manage to eventually disconnect one of the carriages, before which they casually throw back a few beverages and chat amongst themselves about irrelevant life lessons, even though they are expecting to die in approx 5 minutes. The idiot Dr then finds himself on the wrong side of the train carriages as the last carriage separates, and then he miraculously throws himself out the back of a speeding train as it crashes into the last station. You've seen this movies a hundred times, the acting is terrible, the plot is predictable, and we are left none the wiser as to who was was driving, or why? It dragged, it had numerous plot and acting flaws, there was no interesting dialogue, or inspired character portrayals. It floors me to think how these get made, who is funding this rubbish and why? I gave it 2 stars because there was an ambiance to the film, I felt there was potential at the beginning, but I got nothing from the film except a lack of sleep, from staying up to watch it.