The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
2018
PG-13
In August 2015, an ISIS terrorist boarded train #9364 from Brussels to Paris. Armed with an AK-47 and enough ammo to kill more than 500 people, the terrorist might have succeeded except for three A...
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The 15:17 To Paris has good intentions, but couldn't even fill a 94 minute runtime. I was on the verge of falling asleep, not because I was tired, but due to the fact this film was boring. Absolutely, undeniably, utterly boring. I will try to be as sensitive as I can given the patriotic subject matter...but sweet Jesus what was the point in this? Detailing the attempted terrorist attack on a train from Amsterdam to Paris where three friends stop a gunman from killing passengers. Well...for the last 15 minutes that is portrayed. The rest of this "drama" consists of the backstories of these friends and how they turned from troubled delinquents to patriotic members of society. I appreciate what Clint Eastwood was trying to do, utilising the real characters as opposed to hiring thespians or even B-Movie actors. I'm sorry to say, that both of those would be better than these three. I salute what they did, I really do. However I'm critiquing a film, a story, a piece of art...this wasn't it. They cannot act, they are beyond wooden. There are trees out there swaying in a gentle breeze that can act better. Their backstories are uninteresting, it does not help that the screenplay was so basic that it was as if it was constructed with Alphabet Spaghetti. Zero heart plus zero emotion equals turn your brain off so that you can daydream because that's more exciting. The second act literally consists of them travelling Europe. Where we spend five minutes at an ice cream parlour so they can taste the delicious Italian ice cream and move onto the next landmark. What. Even. Was. That!? What's the point in any of this!? There is a moment they have a Skype call, in the background there is a game of table tennis. The blurred table tennis was more enthralling!!! Fortunately the last fifteen minutes were exciting and tense, because if it wasn't for that this would be getting demolished even more so than it is already. If the subject matter isn't long enough to warrant a film, don't make it. This is why we don't have heroic films of firefighters rescuing cats in trees...0 member like this review.
