The Cassandra Crossing

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Blu B Aug 20 It's Not Bad honestly and I have to say this should honestly be remade. I can 100% see this working in the right hands and having like Tom Cruise/Austin Butler/Brad Pitt with the likes of Paul Greengrass behind the camera. This core idea is great idea for a thriller disaster film hybrid. The problem is there is way way way too msny characters in this. You probably need a core 4 people in this and this has like a dozen or so and it makes it so jumpy contantly. Whenever it focues on the individual stories of each on the train it's boring, unimportant, and unfocused. Whenever it focuses on the actual core plot of the virus, people getting sick, containing it, and the rush/battle to stop the train it's a good movie 100%. It just can't get out of its own way with jumping around constantly even when it does focus on the core plot. It makes the editing justalright and everything else is half decent. The train is a great claustrophobic setting, the shootouts are good, the direction is pretty good with some solid camerawork, and the quarantine scenes are creepy and well done. Harris & Lancaster are great here and the best things acting wise. Harris just has a thing for being the best thing in disaster movies. If your a die hard fan of any actors here, the director, or disaster movies than maybe check this out. Most could skip it and not miss much. See more j f @LiberteBurrows Mar 4 Heck of a cast, featuring OJ’s finest work See more 11/22/2024 A good if not typical 70s disaster film. Great cast and the ending is rather shocking. I enjoyed it and it’s definitely worth a watch! See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 05/18/2024 A fairly standard disaster movie with a great cast lead by Burt Lancaster (The Hallelujah Trail, Run Silent, Run Deep) and Richard Harris (The Return Of A Man Called Horse, The Heroes Of Telemark) plus has one of the legendary Composer Jerry Goldsmith (Flaming Star, In Harm’s Way) most underrated scores See more Steve D 03/16/2023 With this much talent it should have been so much better. See more 05/16/2022 This film was already dated in 1997, coming in at the tail end of the disaster movie genre ushered in by 'The Poseidon Adventure' (1972). A great cast is mostly wasted in a poorly written, adequately directed and lazily acted movie. It's hard to believe this film was made after such 70s classics as 'The Godfather' and 'Jaws'. The script gives no depth to any of the caracters, who are all two dimensional, and lack any empathy. Ava Gardner's role is particularly badly written and her performance is embarassing. Richard Harris' acting ability is without question but his unsympathetic screen persona is more suited to villainous roles and he makes an unlikely hero. Sophia Loren is totally wasted, and a host of great supporting actors barely register. On a positive note, the tracking shots of the train and Martin Sheen's stunt double are impressive, and Jerry Goldsmith delivers an effective score though the main theme feels like it belongs in a 1960's French movie. This is only worth watching for curiosity value and for it's relevance to the problem's facing the world today. See more Read all reviews

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