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The Midnight Meat Train [Blu-ray]

The Midnight Meat Train [Blu-ray]
by Ryûhei Kitamura

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Actor: Bradley Cooper, Brooke Shields, Leslie Bibb, Roger Bart, Vinnie Jones
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Anthony DiBlasi
Producer: Beth DePatie
Producer: Clive Barker
Writer: Clive Barker
Producer: David Rubin
Producer: Eric Reid
Writer: Jeff Buhler
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-02-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate

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Movie Review: This is a landmark film - leaves you breathless
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm not a huge follower of slasher/gore films, but I have seen a fair number of them. For me to say that Midnight Meat Train is that genre of movie is unfair, but from the publicity and reviews I've seen, that is where it will end up. Midnight Meat Train is more of the ultimate fast paced thriller (the type that never lets you go)wrapped in one of my favorite themes of capturing reality through photography. There is a long history of movies that plays the reality of photography against the unreality of what's not quite seen. For me, the use of photography in that manner started with Blow-up in 1966. If you haven't seen Blow-up...try it and then look at Midnight Meat Train again.

This film left me stunned in the same way Apocalypse Now did in 1979. Apocalypse Now has the best set of mind grabbing images of any film I've seen. Midnight Meat Train equals the Marlon Brando slaughter scene for it's intensity. Vinnie Jones as Mahogany is no Marlon Brando, but he does a great job of capturing the dark, menacing image of a human clearly gone insane. Think of the "Here's Johnny" scene from The Shining.

For you gore fans, this film is excellent. Think visceral, gut wrenching, "I really can't watch this" gore. What I liked is that the gore is not gratuitous or over done, but complements the movie as a whole by being part of this breath taking, wild, thriller of a ride. While there are a couple of gore sequences that didn't work for me graphically, the majority of the work is excellent and very realistic.

This movie is complete from beautiful brown tone shots with light filtered through hazy dust motes to a chilling sound track. I loved that sound track! Every scene is intensely reinforced by the sound track in a way that literally overloads your senses as each series of scenes builds to a climax.

I haven't ready Clive Barker's short story on this, so it's probably poor taste for me even doing this review. I suspect that the movie relies on the viewer having read the story as there are portions of the movie that don't make sense. After seeing the movie all the way through, I could guess at what some of the earlier scenes meant...but this approach has always left me feeling a better job could have been done.

In summary, this movie will not disappoint. My only sadness is that really good movies like this that overstep many peoples sensibilities never get seen by enough people.

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