Pretty good thriller action about post-Soviet stuff.Plot is kinda weak, especially about the former KGB guy (Chris Lee) on his motivation, other than _____.Worth watching, could skip ahead 30 minutes.As usual, there are several times wherein the good guys could have stopped the bad guys if they were "smarter."For example: it's a train! Stop it!Regardless, pretty good, and this is before the main actor as James Bond. Pretty good thriller action about post-Soviet stuff.Plot is kinda weak, especially about the former KGB guy (Chris Lee) on his motivation, other than _____.As usual, there are several times wherein the good guys could have stopped the bad guys.For example: it's a train! Stop it!Regardless, pretty good, and this is before the main actor as James Bond.I think it plays off his character as Rem Steele, but I didn't watch that.(I Liked $6M Man & similar) I mostly stopped watching series in the late 80s. I think it plays off his character as Rem Steele, but I didn't watch that.(I Liked $6M Man & similar) I mostly stopped watching series in the late 80s.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union General Benin wants to make the country great again; to do this he has had two nuclear bombs built in Germany by a local scientist. One of these bombs is placed on a train that has been hijacked by American mercenary Alex Tierney. He intends to take the train through Europe to Turkey then on to Iraq. Malcolm Philpott, head of the United Nations Anti-Crime Organisation, will be responsible for stopping them. He hastily assembles a team including Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver and they fly to Germany where they are joined by two Russians. While Philpott runs the operation the others work to stop the train reaching its destination with its deadly cargo.Given that this film was made for television it is surprisingly good and features an impressive cast. Pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan impresses as Mike Graham and Alexandra Paul is solid as Sabrina Carver. Patrick Stewart brings some gravitas as Philpott and Christopher Lee is good as Benin, even if his role isn't as large as it might have been. There is lots of action including shooting, explosions and helicopters tracking the train's movement. There are of course some clichés, most obviously the 'one second to go' defusing of the first bomb. Overall I found this to be a really solid thriller; certainly better than one might expect from something made for TV in the early nineties.

Oh wow. Movie history is of course not just a treasure chamber.. but sometimes, in the €1 bargain bin one can find such (unintended) laughing stock like this (and Cassandra Crossing too, which might make a cool double feature - I watched both on consecutive evenings, and had big fun with both).A funny unreality is created by mocking up a diesel switcher locomotive and two four-wheeler baggage cars as a "death train" cruising from Bremen to Stuttgart, Zurich, Bolzano, Trieste, Gorizia, Belgrade, and supposedly going all the way to Iraq. Suspend disbelief, geographical and others.. the idea alone that a EuroRail control room in Munich supervises train operations over all that area (with high-res light dots indicating where any train is at the given time) ... the really weird map of the area between Stuttgart and Zurich (where I happen to live, but the map shows Tuttlingen as close to the Rhine, and Swiss border).. the convenient passage between locomotive and train.. or the tunnel scene (replacing removed rail segments on the fly), which struck me as a possible sequel to Buster Keaton's General.. or more. Yes, and there is renowned actors, shooting and dying too. But if you are familiar with railroad geography, they wouldn't even be needed, the factual goofs alone make this a weird, but ultimately pleasing comedy.Of course it's low budget, so you don't get finales like the bridge in Cassandra Crossing (or Under Siege 2), the union station breakthrough in Silver Streak, or helicopters in the Chunnel like in Mission Impossible. Still, big fun as ignorant railroad drama, and worth an euro, or even a little more :) And in context of "Night Watch", a different way to watch is to see how the UNACO agents (Brosnan and Paul, who is lovely and strong here) have changed between these two films.

Well, it's not quite Fantasy Island, but after watching it I can't help but think that the addition of Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize would have made the movie much more enjoyable.The movie tries hard, but it's let down by a number of things that just make you tut in annoyance.For a start, transporting a nuclear bomb by train? Don't the writers actually do any homework about these things? Let's see, there's a bomb on a train....a nuclear bomb, no less. Hmmm. What should we (the authorities) do about it? I know! Let's allow it to trundle around Europe willy-nilly and not interfere with it, because, after all, it does have a nuclear bomb on board, and we all know that those will go off at the slightest provocation. Bah! In reality a fleet of gunships would blow the living s**t out of the train and they'd worry about the clean-up later. There would be no nuclear explosion. But wait, weren't there hostages? Yeah, right, you think the authorities would give a monkey's ass about a few civilians when they were being threatened with a nuclear inferno? It's this kind of stupidity in writing that really irritates me. Let's write a story and not have the characters/authorities do anything remotely resembling what they'd do in real life. Bah!Another example...when they track down the second bomb and its being trundled down the runway in an airplane, what do they do? Not shoot out the plane's tires (I'm no expert, but I think it might be hard for a prop aircraft to reach take-off speed with all its tires flat, assuming the undercarriage didn't collapse anyway) Oh no! They attempt to board the plane and tackle the bad guys mano-a-mano. Luckily for them, the bad guys, in addition to having a nuclear bomb on board, have also thoughtfully provided sandbags piled up in neat little mounds that make kind of mini-foxhole-like positions. Perfect for an onboard shoot-out! Bah!And, of course, earlier we are treated to one of my pet hates among portrayals of military hardware - the empty rocket pods on the helicopters. Before they even fire one rocket we get a great shot of the helicopter flying towards the camera.....and an equally obvious shot of daylight through the rocket tubes. Would it be so hard to block up the holes? Geez!Of course, the "rockets" turn out to be fireworks that, when fired, shoot off in any direction but towards the target. Oh the hilarity!There's not much to recommend this movie. It's unrealistic and just silly and nobody has any imagination or common sense worth a damn. Just don't get me started on the ludicrous "let's trap them in a tunnel" scene. That just blew chunks.Avoid it if you want to see anything remotely realistic. On the other hand, if you like really lame movies, it's worth a shot.