Crackerjack 2

There have been many Die Hard Clones, since that one appeared.. Both low and high budget ones.. Con Air, Sudden Death and to some degree Speed. They all had some kind of variation.. That can't be said about this one, which also is extremely low-budget.

We all know the basic story-line of Die Hard. Bad guys takes people in a building hostage, a policeman with his girlfriend among the hostages happens to be inside.

Hostage Train follows the plot exactly. They are so similar that you almost think they've even used the same screenplay.

While Bruce Willis is both fun and tough, Judge Reinhold aren't exactly that much of a character to pull that off. In fact, when he tries to be fun, he's boring, and the only time he is fun, is when he tries to be a tough action-hero.

The same counts with most other actors appearing in this movie, except for Carol Alt as the Girlfriend and the boss bad guy.

The action scenes really show that this is low budget, with matted in fire etc, and everything expensive happening outside of the frame.

Not even if you have seen Die Hard, I doubt this makes anyone happy, and why choose to see this one, when you as well can pick up Die Hard and see one of the best action-movies ever done.

Hostage Train reminded me Air Force One in some points...the hostages' room, the terrorists' visit in that room, the hero who has his wife to save...but the funny thing is that you see the train for about 30 seconds...so why did they call it Hostage Train? The backgrounds don't create any mood, and the acting doesn't help the thing. Judge Reinhold isn't expressive, and his acting is awful as a cop who has to save the day. Michael Sarrazin played in masterpieces (I am sarcastic) such as The Arrival 2, and, in this film, he plays one of the worst bad guys I saw in a movie in my whole life...the special effects are funny because they're so fake, it's crazy...the explosions will make you laugh. The whole thing is boring, and I didn't even have fun watching it...it seems to last three hours but its running time is only one and a half hours...The story... A cop with a bad reputation at his police department has to kill the terrorists who took a train full of rich hostages. Replace the word "train" in the last sentence by "airplane" or "bus" and you get the scenario of another stupid action movie...Again, it's the usual storyline repeated with even less budget...it's bad...Very stupid and very boring. 2/10

Whatever. The iconic words spoken by Jack Wild himself in this very movie! Reinhold should have been cast in the first one as well because he crackles with action star goodness here!! Griffith was ok in the first one but something like a glove you thought was working fine until you slip Reinhold onto your hand and realize the fit is much tighter and more lubricated. The romance scenes sizzle with a Brad Hamilton machismo and the action sequences are some of the most intricate, white knuckle scenes ever put to film. The Judge has come to a verdict and the verdict is "six months prison, sentence suspended if you watch this awesome movie". So do yourself a favor and hop on the train, the hostage train to excitement, suspense, romance and the hottest action star to ever grace the screen....... Judge Reinhold???

Whatever..........

There's a reason Judge Reinhold didn't go on to a career as the next Bruce Willis, and this is a blatant example as to why. A truly dreadful, poorly made, poorly scripted, poorly acted effort all round.

However, we do learn a few things:-

1) Whispering all your lines in an attempt to sound menacing does NOT make you appear menacing if you happen to be Judge Reinhold.

2) Judge Reinhold should not strike martial arts poses in the middle of fight scenes.

3) Judge Reinhold should not do this, or anything for that matter but especially fight scenes, in his underpants.

Avoid.

It's not the greatest movie ever made in this kind of topic in fact it's not even the most original movie made with this kind of topic.

The one and only original we have ever seen of this was Die Hard and personally if you plan to see this don't.

Just go and hire a copy of Die Hard instead.

Now how many other movies like this have there been, well too many if you ask me. And this one is almost a clone of another train movie "Under Siege 2."

The lead character played by Judge Rienhold was more funny then serious and there were a lot of scenes you would have picked from other movies with maybe one or two that seemed totally out of place such as the female terrorist trying to get friendly with one of the young ladies who was revealing way, too much through see through panties and I saw this

in prime time... How the censors let that through I'll be damned if I know....

But even that was not enough to save this pile of s**t from being a good movie. It was just thrown in there and didn't go anywhere and was not part of the story.....

4/10