So this is a movie about the 15:17 to Paris?! Well, a few minutes of the movie are actually spent in the train but the rest is a bunch of scenes patched together that it makes me wonder that the movie has been approved by a studio.
We see the 3 main characters childhood and honestly I didn't care about it at all. Some typical bullying in school, everything was pretty pointless in terms of characterization.
Then the glorious "join the military" phase and some scenes at the military, nothing new, more pointless scenes, I couldn't have cared less.
Later then the trip to Europe - as somebody who grew up in Europe and traveled to all of those locations I have to say the shots in Europe were poorly made. I don't know if that's Mr. Eastwoods fault or who was responsible - for somebody who has never been in Europe you get the wrong ideas - everywhere.
Funny as always - people who are supposed to be Germans speaking with a nice American accent - but that's in almost all American movies.
Finally a few scenes on the train, the terrorist gets disarmed in like 2 minutes, some drama then about a guy who got shot and then we have some kind of emotional moment when actual footage of French President François Hollande presenting the three men with the Légion d'honneur was used.
I found this movie was a waste of my time, Mr. Eastwood was more entertaining when talking to an empty chair, the three real life actors are no actors (which is not their fault) and of course what they did in real life is admirable.
The movie is not.
We see the 3 main characters childhood and honestly I didn't care about it at all. Some typical bullying in school, everything was pretty pointless in terms of characterization.
Then the glorious "join the military" phase and some scenes at the military, nothing new, more pointless scenes, I couldn't have cared less.
Later then the trip to Europe - as somebody who grew up in Europe and traveled to all of those locations I have to say the shots in Europe were poorly made. I don't know if that's Mr. Eastwoods fault or who was responsible - for somebody who has never been in Europe you get the wrong ideas - everywhere.
Funny as always - people who are supposed to be Germans speaking with a nice American accent - but that's in almost all American movies.
Finally a few scenes on the train, the terrorist gets disarmed in like 2 minutes, some drama then about a guy who got shot and then we have some kind of emotional moment when actual footage of French President François Hollande presenting the three men with the Légion d'honneur was used.
I found this movie was a waste of my time, Mr. Eastwood was more entertaining when talking to an empty chair, the three real life actors are no actors (which is not their fault) and of course what they did in real life is admirable.
The movie is not.