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!).
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!).