A group of Americans (many are wrestlers) travel through Eastern Europe by train. As they become abducted and killed we learn that this is part of an organ harvesting ring. Why torture the victims before hand? Makes little sense. How about that a team of wrestlers aren't able to defend themselves? Makes less sense. What you do get is gory live organ removal, eye removal, broken neck, male necrophilia sodomy (yes you read that right), a girl beaten, impaled under the chin, dragged and then taken by a group of soldiers to be gang raped (and presumably killed), ripped out nipple rings, throat slicing, an axe mercy killing and cast of indifferent to homicidal Europeans hunting some perpetually victimized young people. Some may read this description and find the thought of watching people beaten, dis-em bowled, crushed, raped and murdered to be a great time. I don't want to meet you. This isn't even on par with Hostel which managed at least some dark humor and a cathartic bit of revenge. This is just ugly and hopefully the last gasp of a tired horror subgenre.

At the beginning of the film i felt like i had seen it a dozen times before, the usual ensemble of college students and a couple of teachers...you know!However within a very short space of time i was drawn into the storyline of the film, and there actually is a plot to follow!I hadn't read anything about the film before i watched it so spent most off the film saying "No way!" mostly quite shocked at the content of the film and the implications of the plot...I don't want to write any spoilers so let me say that it is a thriller/horror well worth seeing and anyone who liked a film like Hostel will like this one too and enjoy it...i did:-)

I probably should have known this was going to be, or at least akin to being, "torture porn", or the gratuitous slicing and dicing of people without any of the suspense, but I didn't expect this low-rent movie starring Thora Birch to be just so unpleasant, in its style and mood and its delivery. It doesn't help that the cast mostly looks like the understudies of other actors (that one guy is a dead ringer for Denis Leary, another one for European Cameron Diaz) and none of them can act very well (Birch, of course, being a master thespian of under-acting if that's possible). But any moment that a suspenseful walking/creeping around should work it doesn't, and any moment that we're supposed to be icked or frightened by the next gashing-out of blood is just stupid in its excessiveness. It also doesn't help at all that the logic is twisted; there's a train that kidnaps unwitting people into using their bodies on the black market, okay, I'll bite, maybe it's like Taken on a Train (ho-ho). Even then there's little thought put into it; they're organ-removers basically- a little like the people in Hostel only providing a "service" albeit extremely criminal and psychopathic and with some of the usual big galuts in tandem. But what about what's usually done with organ removing and transplanting like, I don't know, a CLEAN ROOM! It's one thing to be evil East-Euro organ removers, it's another thing to be incompetent while doing it. Also, the ending is one of the lamest in modern cinematic memory, even if it's straight-to-video. There's little to recommend about it except for a few (unintentional) laughs early on before the Olympic team gets on the train and parties down at an overly-red-lit nightclub.

This is one train journey that I never bargained for! And I mean that in a positively butchered sense :) I've watched many movies that has horrific violence but not at all engaging. But in Train, I was hooked to the proceedings from start to end. Director Gideon Raff ensures our attention throughout. The show-stopper of the movie is the lead actor Thora Birch with a stupendous performance. All the other actors paled in comparison, maybe it's because their roles were pretty weak too. But no memorable roles among the villains too here as all of 'em have a forgettable screen presence, which's really a negative. Verdict: Still want a moving blood & flesh show that holds your attention for nearly 90mins? Hop on this train :)