Some people have complained that the film was confusing, but I suspect the fact that it's not simplistic and you have to use your a brain a bit is what many of the rest of us liked about it.
It was fantastic to see all the different time periods, and the trains they were in: yes, that's limiting, and you have to accept that quite a few critical moments in their lives just happened to take place on a train, but if you're willing to accept that bit of poetic license you'll probably really enjoy the movie.
The only thing that annoyed me was the ending: other people seemed to wondering who he was meeting (I assume it was his brother, because that was the big final redemption and we'd already seen he was with his girl), but he'd just lost forty years of his life! He needed to go back to 1985 when the movie started and have everything OK back then, otherwise it doesn't make sense.
It was fantastic to see all the different time periods, and the trains they were in: yes, that's limiting, and you have to accept that quite a few critical moments in their lives just happened to take place on a train, but if you're willing to accept that bit of poetic license you'll probably really enjoy the movie.
The only thing that annoyed me was the ending: other people seemed to wondering who he was meeting (I assume it was his brother, because that was the big final redemption and we'd already seen he was with his girl), but he'd just lost forty years of his life! He needed to go back to 1985 when the movie started and have everything OK back then, otherwise it doesn't make sense.