Simply A Masterpiece

Let's be realistic.

i must have seen a different film!!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I love movie so much i like bradley cooper in this movie it dose have sad ending but it a better good movie

I actually looked this movie up on the IMDb site and it got an average of 6.1 user rating (I almost never watch anything below a 6.0), so I thought I would give it a shot. Uh, where to start with this disgusting heap of trash?? First off, the film title is just dumb; The Midnight Meat Train? Really?? This is up there with such unbelievably moronic movie titles like Dude, Where's My Car? and Snakes on a Plane. Even something like Slaughterhouse Train would have been a better title. Secondly, this film was so gruesome and bloody, I found myself turning away at several points. I have seen plenty of slasher flicks before, but this movie literally made me physically ill to watch some of the scenes because of the fact that they were so gratuitous and because of the voluminous level of blood spilt throughout. I read another reviewers post on horror vs. slasher films and I agree 100% when they said, and I am paraphrasing here, "Horror is supposed to scare and frighten you, not gross you out". This movie is NOT a horror film – it's a SLASHER film!!Thirdly, I was hoping that Bradley Cooper being in it would've given the movie a little boost, but even he couldn't save this weak story along with a bad supporting cast (Leslie Bibb was so corny and cardboardish as Cooper's girlfriend). You can have the most talented cast, but that means nothing when the script is poor and the story is just too inconsistent to hold together. Fourth, this film is just littered with totally pointless scenes like Cooper banging Bibb doggie style in a random place and Vinnie Jones cutting of warts from his chest and placing them in a jar of blue liquid (this weird scene was never explained or returned to later on), just to name a few. So many scenes like the aforementioned ones add nothing to the movie and must have just been added to increase its length…or the director said, "Let's add a sex scene here to mix things up a little"…or something.Fifth, the CGI used in some of the scenes was so fake looking that I was almost laughing at how bad it was. I mean, a pool of blood isn't magenta colored and reflect as perfectly as a mirror. I understood the effect they were attempting to achieve in that particular scene, but come on!! And the eyeballs flying out of the guy's head at the beginning of the movie was CGI a third grader could've created on his computer.Finally, the whole film is just so implausible from beginning to end. Are we really supposed to believe that hundreds (if not thousands) of people are going missing on this particular train and no one is any the wiser? Except for Leslie Bibb's character? And instead of going to the police, she goes to the killers' apartment with her one friend in tow? And then Bibb goes for help to the one cop (in a huge city) who is in cahoots with the killer(s)? OH, PLEASE!! How dumb do they think we are??If you like lots of blood and a story that makes very little sense, then this film is for you!! If not, then don't waste the 100 minutes it will take to watch this garbage

I was surprised that this film was not well-known, upon seeing Bradley Cooper, Brooke Shields, and the actor playing the butcher, etc. It is way better than many horror films of late, even though I had never heard of it until Netflix featured the film. Apparently it was a limited-release deal. The Good= Truly suspenseful, confusing(but in an intelligent way), bloody, dark, and very creepy. This film has good actors, a decent script, and it really envelopes the viewer into its own gritty world of the city nightlife, if a little surreal and non-realistic at times. I also love the idea of ancient aliens or monsters or gods controlling sacrifices from below. I knew from the moment I saw that ring on the Butcher's finger and the accomplice driving the train, that this must be some Illuminati-type setup, or that multiple officials had to be in on it, or that this was a fake train fooling people into boarding it-- that guessing and suspense made it intriguing. The first half of the film is really better than the 2nd half, although the 2nd picks up with the levels of gore, violence, and revelations.The Bad= Shows the killer too soon, doesn't explain certain things like the Butcher's skin/sickness, odd pacing, silly gore effects.The Ugly= The biggest sins of this film are revealing the monster's face and home too early, under-using Brooke Shields(who is super hot still in this film and could have explored a relationship with Cooper, and added a dimension to the dynamics of his fiancé relationship), and the worst is that they WASTED such a great opportunity to explain who the ancient killer race was, running the subway trains, and how they had the police and everyone else involved. I filled in the blanks for myself, but I thought that storyline could have been really creepy and bizarre, on some Prometheus or Alien-level stuff, that would have really capped off this film nicely. A bit too open-ended on certain aspects, and as the ending draws near, I predicted everything easily. Still, overall, this is a nice, gritty, gory horror film that many can enjoy, with great actors and a lot of potential, that could have been a true classic.

I can't state this enough: this is a slasher flick of the most disgusting kind. It's just foul, and to make it worse, I wasn't expecting it. I only watched it until the end to satisfy some stupid need I have to see movies through to the end, no matter how bad. I can't believe these actors allowed themselves to put themselves in these roles. If this is your thing then I am sure you'll like it. Sorry this is a crappy review but I felt that strongly about it.