When my friend came into work one day, I knew something had changed within him. He was soulless and void of hope. I couldn't imagine what could have possibly happened to him! Cancer? Death in the family? Had he met Madonna? No! It was this (spit) film. I repeatedly asked him to tell me what it was about. Who was in it? Could it really be THAT bad!!?? He never gets angry, but that day he was broken. What is it about? "I don't know!!!" Well, what happens? "I don't know!!!!"Eventually I agreed to watch it. My life will never be the same. I would rather watch the video tape from the Ring or become the back of the the human centipede then watch this soul destroying piece of crap. I wish I had read the other reviews before watching this! I wish I'd listened!!Here's a spoiler! Nothing happens!!! The beginning isn't really a beginning because it's not connected to or relevant to the rest of the film. The middle is all the bits of other films that were cut out by the director and put together by a blind monkey while his organ grinder plays that awful French song sung by a random transvestite for no reason. The end...there IS NO END!!!I was angry, I was transformed, I am no longer able to step inside a church or laugh without getting nose bleeds. Finally we lent it to another colleague. She came in the next day unusually quiet. I asked her is she was OK but she was too angry to talk. I asked her if she'd seen the film and she told me to never mention it again!! She got up to make a tea and thought she'd missed the end of the film. No! There isn't one!!This movie has bonded the three of us together forever, for we will never know the answers to the hundreds of questions this film creates! Who are these people? What are they doing? What is meant to be happening? Reading a plot summery just makes it more confusing somehow!! Our favourite part, the end credits lists 3 actors and then says..."and many more!" Before fading to black! On the plus side...my mum liked it.

0.5/10Back in the early 2000s I had saved my paper round money to purchase a DVD player with a surround sound system. When I opened the box I saw it came with a few free DVDs which certainly wasn't the norm. One of these films was Train to Hell (1996). From the title of the film and the picture of a big star actor (Grant) on the front I foolishly decided this was worth a watch.Terrible. Just absolutely awful. Words cannot describe how disappointing this film is. I sat through the entire film, start to finish!Even now, nearly 15 years later it still stands out vividly in my memory as the single worst film I've ever seen. The script was bizarre, the dialogue was all over the place, the camera work was often shaky and scenes with mistakes in the delivery and points where Grant mistakenly and nervously peeks into the camera lens were left in the final edit. It was clear from the look in Hugh Grant's eyes that he was uncomfortable with the direction during filming, at certain points he genuinely looks like he is going to be sick with anxiety.I think I burned the DVD after watching it, only to crave it again years later after discussing awful films with friends at uni. I felt I had to watch it again to make sure it wasn't just a dream (nightmare). I never managed to get a hold of another copy.I imagine if I was a lecturer on a cinema course I would make a point of showing all my students this film. It is basically a step by step guide of how to make a genuinely laugh out loud terrible film. I cannot fathom how people were paid to make this. I actually believe I could make a better film myself with a smartphone and a couple of friends; and that is saying something!If you're a film student, this is a must see......

I was very shocked that Hugh Grant would appear in a movie like this. Apart from the fact that this movie was terrible, he was certainly out of his depth in this mystery thriller. He has done thrillers before including but not limited to movies such as Extreme Measures (1996) which wasn't a box office success. The Hugh Grant audiences know and love has struck success with movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Nine Months (1995), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), and About a Boy (2002). Night Train to Venice was certainly a departure for Hugh Grant and this stinker of a movie shows that Hugh Grant should stick with what he does best.Night Train to Venice centres on a young journalist named Martin who is travelling to Venice by train (hence the title) to drop off a copy of his book. Along the way he encounters a variety of people including Vera (Tahnee Welch, Cocoon) an actress who is travelling with her daughter, and a man known as The Stranger (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange) who has a mysterious influence over their dreams, and also wipes out Martin's memory. Only Vera and her daughter can help Martin.To describe this movie as a train wreck would be an understatement. It is very boring, lifeless and very uninteresting. I didn't care for how the movie ended as this was amazingly bad. It's no surprise that Hugh Grant stated in a 2002 interview that this is the worst movie he has ever done, and rightfully so.Hugh Grant should stick with romantic comedies as that is definitely what he does best.1/10.

It seems that the Italian Director Carlo U. Quinterio does not have experience in thriller film-making. Thus he delved into his Italian heritage and came up with a 20th century take on Dante's circles of hell....the film includes lust, wrath, violence, fraud an treachery. He should have looked at the film Murder on the Orient Express instead, which apart from the exaggerated speech of Hercules Poirrot is well executed. In Night Train to Venice, there are frequent transitions between reality and nightmares. Hugh Grant and Malcolm McDowell both gave memorable performances, yet they could not make this movie click. There is too much cruelty, too many characters that are not clarified, even the Stranger (McDowell) who seems to be the only constant factor in the plot is not really clear. What a shame. I gave it five points, since somehow I managed to stay with it till the end without falling asleep. So there is a grain here....somebody should take the story and do a re-make of it!