This Nicholas Roeg film is not going to be to everybody's taste, and just the name of the director should already reveal that. The very troubled Theresa Russell desperately wants a baby, and I doubt she has the emotional and mental capacity to raise a child, simply because she's a child in an adult's mind to begin with. She's married to doctor Christopher Lloyd who is complete frigid with her, but not with his nurse, Sandra Bernhard who gives him spankings in the examining room. One day Russell is out at lunch and meets Gary Oldman. Soon they're having an affair, and it's obvious that she's going to pull the same demands on him she does with Lloyd.
The train sets that Lloyd spends time with are much more interesting than anything going on with the dangerously clinging Russell. I didn't find this movie as much weird as I did just outlandishly boring. Roeg has his cult following, that's for sure, but I'm not among them. I found some of the minor characters much more interesting with limited screen time than I did Russell, Oldman and Lloyd. Bernhard really doesn't get enough to do to establish anything about her. A few interesting visuals here and there, but this train definitely got stuck in a collapsed tunnel of someone's mind and was never able to get out.
The train sets that Lloyd spends time with are much more interesting than anything going on with the dangerously clinging Russell. I didn't find this movie as much weird as I did just outlandishly boring. Roeg has his cult following, that's for sure, but I'm not among them. I found some of the minor characters much more interesting with limited screen time than I did Russell, Oldman and Lloyd. Bernhard really doesn't get enough to do to establish anything about her. A few interesting visuals here and there, but this train definitely got stuck in a collapsed tunnel of someone's mind and was never able to get out.