Train

Released: 2008
MPAA Rating:  R for strong grisly bloody violence, disturbing images, sexual content and language.
Run time: 1:34


"Train" is another entry in the somewhat popular "torture porn" genre in which innocent, unsuspecting people are captured in some way and brutally tortured for various reasons.  The more famous examples of this genre are "Saw", "Hostel" and "Turistas", to name but a few.  Of course, each of those movies are better than this one (and "Turistas" was not particularly good).  In fact, "Train" seems to be a beat-by-beat copy of the plot from "Hostel".  In this case, a traveling college wrestling team misses their scheduled train and are invited to board another train going to the same place.  What they don't know is that this train houses a group of people who intend to capture them and mine them for body parts to sell.  That is actually the gaping hole in the plot.  Despite the parts being intended to use for people who need transplants, the villains do nothing to keep the removal process or the parts sterile.  Sure, I know it's no hospital, but the removal areas are beyond filthy and, at one point, an organ is put for storage into a disgusting metal container, making it pretty much unusable.  Here's another tip:  If you rip someone's eye out, you can't then transplant it into someone who needs it.  I think it will go much better if it is removed surgically!  The violence and gore in the movie were extremely brutal, to the point where I wonder why I watch these films.  Despite that, my biggest problem with the movie is that it just made no sense on any level.  I know I am asking way too much of a movie in this genre, but even "Saw" and "Hostel" had some sort of logical reasoning for what was happening.  




Grade: D


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