British thrillers don't have a great track record, but here's a Hitchcockian debut feature that might give the genre a boost
The British action movie remains a rare beast – understandably so, if you recall 1997's Downtime, which attempted to emulate Die Hard in a tower block with an asthmatic Paul McGann. The genre may get a boost from writer-director Omid Nooshin's enjoyably crafty, neo-Hitchcockian debut, set aboard a midnight commuter train. Dougray Scott is the medic trying to return his son to Sevenoaks when the guard disappears and the driver – whose death drive is left chillingly motiveless – speeds through Tunbridge Wells with no terminus in sight save, the English Channel. It takes a judicious while to introduce Scott's ambiguous fellow travellers, yet even when the pace accelerates, Nooshin holds on to a strain of logic that doesn't often survive at this level of filmmaking. If you've wondered what goes on inside a driver's cab,...
The British action movie remains a rare beast – understandably so, if you recall 1997's Downtime, which attempted to emulate Die Hard in a tower block with an asthmatic Paul McGann. The genre may get a boost from writer-director Omid Nooshin's enjoyably crafty, neo-Hitchcockian debut, set aboard a midnight commuter train. Dougray Scott is the medic trying to return his son to Sevenoaks when the guard disappears and the driver – whose death drive is left chillingly motiveless – speeds through Tunbridge Wells with no terminus in sight save, the English Channel. It takes a judicious while to introduce Scott's ambiguous fellow travellers, yet even when the pace accelerates, Nooshin holds on to a strain of logic that doesn't often survive at this level of filmmaking. If you've wondered what goes on inside a driver's cab,...
- 10/18/2013
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
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