mkuban The beginning knocked it off. In 2002 it seems, that we all here in Slovakia drive cars from 1970's, there are red-berets and barbwire everywhere and we hunt mammoths for dinner :-D. Why to create such image of the post-communist country? It's been at least 10 years past the era when this title was in production. Doesn't make sense at all. Not to mention that almost none of the scenes were actually shot in Bratislava (I believe it is Sofia, Bulgaria).The entire movie is so bad I don't even care for commenting extensively. Inaccurate set, awkward action scenes, poor characters, idiotic story. Full of completely non-sense artificial constructs, shallow and predictable plot. The only thing that made sense here was Jean Claude Van Damme and what you expected of his performance while he attempts to save the day. Otherwise, just bad. If you value your time, avoid watching this title (which I wouldn't even dare to call a decent movie)!

Christopher Bailey OK, maybe a little harsh, but the plot line was stolen from Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, the editing was completely over done and the special effects were among the wort I have seen in recent memory. Actors did the best they could, but the people around them, bleh. And now, because I must type ten lines, here we go with my rant about IMDb. Really, Why ten lines? Anyone reading this figured out in the first four lines what I had to say and why I said it. Sigh. If there i one thing I could change about this otherwise tremendous Web site it's this. Please, I hope someone in charge is reading this and will change it.

Master Cultist Bog standard action thrills and spills here for one man army merchant Long Cord Man Slamme. This time around Man Slamme is some form of undercover agent with a specialism in high tech weaponry (you know he's not, just from the facial expressions he wears when uttering technobabble. He even ACTS as if he doesn't know what he's talking about) who winds up on board a train with a super-duper bio-weapon, all primed and ready to go bangy wangy and smear everyone in icky-wicky bacterium that will render their nervous system a useless, twitching useless thing. Man Slamme has to stop those nasty men with suits and guns....before it's too late. Throw in a love triangle and a case of mistaken infidelity, and you've basically got a fusion of The Rock, Under Siege and something dreadful starring Meg Ryan (take your pick, folks.) Man Slamme walks through the whole movie as if in a daze, seeming utterly confused by everything that's going on. I thought initially he was attempting some form of Brechtian alienation technique, but suspect more that all the steroids he's chowed down have finally worked their way up his spinal cord and reached his cerebellum. Average Man Slamme fodder then, so just about tolerable.

curtis martin People who say that this is one of the worst films ever made have simply not seen enough films. It's bad, but not that bad. And even though the miniatures and cg effects are sub-TV movie level, they are not that distracting once you get used to them. No, what really kills this flick is that it is all set up and no real story, no tie ups, no climax, no ending. It's as if the screenplay was only 2/3ds done when they started filming. Virtually every plot point that is set up and every character developed in the first hour is dropped like a hot rock in the last 20 minutes in favor of just killing off the bad guy and getting the thing over with. This is especially true of the thief character played quite well by the very hot Laura Harring--she is given a really big set up in the first part of the film--even having her own fight scenes-- and ends up having nothing to do with the climax at all! I thought that she was excellent in the movie and that her character could have fronted a series of DTV flicks all on her own. Instead she--and all the other supporting players--are simply forgotten.I'm a big fan of old action adventure serials from the 30s and 40s, so some fake looking special effects don't bother me if the story is fun and good. I mean I prefer that to great special effects and no story. When Derailed started off, I was thinking "this this isn't nearly as bad as everyone says. It has a hot chick who can actually act, a great car chase, some good fighting, this seems to be leading up to a good story and Van Damme seems to be doing a much better job acting." But, once JCVD and Laura Harring get on the train, and the various characters on the train are introduced at length, and the bad guys take over, and the mysterious virus is let loose, it becomes obvious that the set up was all the filmmakers had worked out. The rest of the actual plot was just "Van Damme fights bad guys on train." I mean, I at least expected the obnoxious Texan and the dorky Aussie to have something to do with the story, as much time as was spent setting up their characters. Except for one very unlikely bit involving JCVD's son that actually tied into something that had happened earlier, nothing from the set up had a pay off. I foresaw lots of plot points and twists that just never happened--in fact I imagined a much better movie than the one that I was actually watching. All this leads me to believe that the script wasn't finished when they started filming and the filmmakers were basically just making the thing up as they went along (either that or they hired the laziest damn screenwriters of all time).