Movie : Midnight meat train

Rating:

This movie is almost as cool as the main bad guy here. Seriously. Vinnie Jones also did some sports before he started acting, playing mostly BIG+BAD guys in scary movies. But his sports career was also pretty funny. He played soccer apparently, and is famous as the holder for the guiness record for the fastest penalty in a game. Game started, 3 seconds into it he attacked one of his opponents. But for a role like this he’s simply perfect.

So the movie is a gore fest with a back story by Clive Barker, which would lead to an assumption that it’s something better in the story department. Unfortunately the screwed it up a bit at the very end, but for most part the story is pretty good. An aspiring young (well sort of) photographer starts to become more and more famous when he focuses on the darker elements of human nature. Which in new york would be probably anything. But he opens up a bit to the possibilities that brings him and starts walking with his camera at night. When he sees a young woman being murdered inside an underground train he decides to follow on that story, and on the weird, big, big man that was on the same train with the woman. He discovers some crazy stuff about that man, and basically from then on it’s a gore-fest.

Blood spilling over everything. Eyeballs popping out. Stuff that normally would be disgusting in movies like “Hostel” here just works. Probably because for some parts it’s just funny, the context of the killings plus the bad guy himself. It all just works for an entertaining gore movie. Too bad the story turns to garbage at the end, but hey, it’s still not so bad.