"if you wanna know what god thinks about money... look at the people he gives it to."

collet-serra brings his usual layered compositions + tight, rhythmic cutting to another exciting pulp thriller (dude gets his shit kicked in with a lefty guitar!!!), but his formal attempts to depict the communal language of the working class..? chef's kiss. best title sequence this side of fincher's Dragon Tattoo. fuck you goldman sachs.

the opening sequence (one of the best in years) starts the film out as this optimistic of synecdoche new york, and then quickly becomes a wild conspiracy thriller, all while maintaining its fun and b-movie trashiness.

a total surprise.

this movie could have ended at the scene where liam neeson beats a guy with a guitar and i honestly wouldn't have complained. everything else is just a bonus.

If you’re in the mood for silly.

Watched on the plane.

Sturdy but unsurprising. If you're looking for an impeccable formal exercise featuring a train as an analog for runaway capitalism do yourself a favor and re-watch UNSTOPPABLE.

Economic anxiety and our mechanized life. The Hollywood and late capitalist machinery at work, one and the same, with police state conspiracy as mediator. The American working class might not go to heaven, but has a meeting with a derailed train. Jaume Collet-Serra, Hollywood de facto #1 working man, is no Tony Scott, he will punch the clocks and keep the engines running (give or take the occasional dodgy CG and plot mechanics),  but he will also see everything.

Watched on airplane. Every twenty minutes or so a faint AIRFRANCE watermark would appear over Liam Neeson’s face.

probably my favorite end credits for any movie

Let me say I did not get everything the director was showing me in this film. I was somewhat confused at times, not knowing if it was me or if I missed something. That being said, I enjoyed this one and can say it held my interest from the opening credits to the final scene. The directing was excellent as the train became one of the characters. The camera movements from train car to train car without cuts was quite impressive. The total package was well worth it a somewhat lower budgeted flick. Have the blue ray copy.

Class Mobility: The Motion Picture

The official post-2008 sequel to Fredric Jameson's classic essay on the possibilities for class allegory in American mass culture, "Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film."

Was Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson possessed by ghosts in this movie? Lol Was fun to see them play as the antagonists in this one. A lot of good characters in this movie with a lot of guessing who and action!

More like the surprisingly goodmuter that opens really strongly and has some really cool ideas and action that isn’t overcut to hell and a pretty good mystery plot with a unique setting that I felt kinda fell apart in the third act no pun intended but that I overall really enjoyed and definitely had more effort put into it than I had expected for a movie that came out in January

Good who is behind it movie. A lot of twist and turns. A real good watch.

Pretty good movie, was going into the movie blind, I was interested in the plot and I didn't want to miss anything, there was some action, and the movie kind of get you thinking about who's behind all of it.

nelson