I saw this tonight, and enjoyed it. Bearing in mind that it's a near-disaster flick with all the usual characters and set up, they do a good job in keeping up the suspense. The characters are engaging, Denzel Washington as the grizzled train veteran, Chris Pine as the green novice, finding themselves on a locomotive, between a toxic, runaway train and certain disaster. Nothing that happens is very surprising, but the shaky, grainy video style, "you are there" feel and the earnest-ness of the whole production, actually makes it work. The cynical might note that half of the movie has a Fox logo on screen (TV coverage). Fortunately, it was a lot better than my previous out of control train flick, that all time favorite "The Atomic Train".
