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| shaz |
 Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:36 pm |
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Hey! Where's my individual title?
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I only saw this movie for the first time last night.
I was very impressed...it kept me on the edge of my seat. A good thriller. Although my other-half said:
*SPOILER*
Don't look down!!
He knew Lucinda was in on it.
I didn't see it coming AT ALL. Thought it was great! |
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| Paula |
| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:35 pm |
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I love this movie
it's a great thriller and Jen was amazing on it
I watched only the UnRated version
good.. I watched the longer one  |
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| sarbear |
| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:25 am |
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Hey! Where's my individual title?
Joined: 17 May 2006
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Jen is so amazing in this movie!
I went to see it the night it opened and when it let out
my lil bro was like" thats so not the jen i know lets go watch friends"
and then some people behind us where talking and one guy said that "she sure has come along way from friends and he was impressed with how well she did drama" I thought it was cool to hear what other people thought about her doin such an intense movie.  |
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| RnR4eva |
| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:12 pm |
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I thought this was interesting. I would love to see this and compare.
Masand's verdict: The Train
Rajeev Masand
CNN-IBN
SET TO NOWHERE: The Train�s about a married man and price he must pay for adultery.
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Sayali Bhagat, Geeta Basra, Aseem Merchant
Direction: Hasnain Hyderabadwala and Raksha Mistry
Emraan Hashmi�s is the best performance in this week�s new release The Train so that should pretty much give you an idea about what the film is like.
The Train, incidentally, is an unapologetic, shameless rip-off of the Clive Owen-Jennifer Aniston thriller Derailed, and this desi version�s been directed by Hasnain Hyderabadwala and Raksha Mistry who last plagarised the Tom Cruise starrer Collateral to give us The Killer.
Now the thing about The Train is that although it faithfully follows the blueprint of the original film, it does so lethargically at an almost snail-like pace, killing you slowly with its misplaced sense of morality.
In a nutshell, the film�s about a married man and the price he must pay for adultery. Emraan Hashmi is the man in question, newcomer Sayali Bhagat his wife, and Geeta Basra the other woman. The story�s set in Bangkok, although till the end of the film I couldn�t figure out why they needed to go outside our very own Filmistan Studio because the directors don�t exploit the city to lend character to the story.
The basic flaw with The Train is its own inability to understand what story it wants to tell. The screenplay plods along wearily and what�s meant to be the big turning point in the plot is so predictable, you�ve guessed it a good forty minutes before you actually see it happen on screen. Then there are those terrifying performances by Aseem Merchant playing the bad guy, and leading lady Geeta Basra � who�s so buried under make-up you can�t even see her expressions. Put it all together and you�ve got a recipe for disaster.
The reason The Train fails and so miserably so is because the filmmakers� conviction is so clearly missing in the film. You can�t just rip off a Hollywood film frame by frame and expect your film to turn out exactly like the original � no, that�s not going to happen. Look at some successful rip-offs � Murder and Kaante�You�ll notice both of these films had clearly developed characters and a fairly solid screenplay, even if the screenplays weren�t entirely original. The Train sadly has neither, and that�s why it�s such a royal bore.
It�s true what I said in the beginning; Emraan Hashmi isn�t half as bad as he usually is. He�s having a bad hair day and looks a bit like a lost lamb, but that aside, it�s an earnest attempt. Not that it helps actually because the film itself is just very difficult to sit through. I�m going to go with one out of five and a thumbs down for Hasnain Hyderabadwala and Raksha Mistry�s The Train � it�s loose and it�s weak and if you ask me honestly, this train�s going nowhere, so get on at your own risk.
Rating: 1 / 5 (Poor)
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/masands-verdict--the-train/top/42512-8.html?xml |
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| foxy_roxy |
| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:37 am |
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I lived in India for quite a while and during that time became a fan of Bollywood movies, but me and my friends agree; a lot of them are based on English ones. It annoys me but you get used to it. The reason it works is because a lot of people haven't seen the original English version so they think the Hindi version is great. The awesome Hindi movies are ones that haven't been copied  .
From this review however, looks like they've copied it exactly. |
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| wwwed |
| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:22 am |
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| This is the number two most rented movie in blockbuster... so not a failure, just too scarey to see in the movie theatre ;-) |
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| sicilianmami990 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:27 pm |
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| this movie is amazing. there are soo many parts that keep you guessing and keep u on the edge of your seat |
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| jendavidfan |
| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:45 am |
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| Jen is sooooo amazing in this movie. Just shows that she can do anything if they let her. |
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