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The 15:17 to Paris
PG13 (SINGAPORE)
2018
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2.2
This isnt a bad moral, but the more cynical might also call it a mea culpa.
Av Club
2.8
Though it never rises to that level of narrative mastery, the aesthetic similarities stand apart from anything else in Eastwoods oeuvre.
Indie Wire
1.5
Its little wonder Clint Eastwood gravitated toward bringing this tale to the screen, given its camera ready elements.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Given its cant miss potential, youd think this would be one kickass movie.
Austin Chronicle
2.0
The profanity free squareness is close to excruciating: You wont believe how boring it is partying with real life heroes.
Time Out
2.0
The intriguing docudrama gimmick backfires not just because the participants arent particularly dynamic, but also because Eastwoods potentially novel, ..
Screen Daily
3.0
The 15:17 to Paris is Clint Eastwood taking another shot at recreating on celluloid, heroic moments from real life. This time, the veteran filmmaker d ..
ETimes (TOI)
1.5
This movie does no one involved with it any favorsnot Eastwood, and definitely not the heroes at its center.I honestly wish it did not exist.
Paste Magazine
1.0
One of the worst, most inexcusably poor movies Clint Eastwood has turned out in his career behind the camera and a possible contender for one of the w ..
IGN
1.0
Even though, at 94 minutes, this is Eastwoods shortest film to date as a director, it paradoxically feels like one of his longest and draggiest works.
E Film Critic
2.0
15 cert, 94 mins Clint Eastwoods last two films, American Sniper and Sully, delved into ideas of modern day heroism with a troubled complexity that wa ..
Telegraph
1.5
What is Clint Eastwoods The 15:17 to Paris A bundle of ideological confusion.
The Young Folks
2.0
The 15:17 To Paris is a barely competent film that fails both audiences its trying to reach out to.
Cinema Blend
2.5
Thats when Stone was injured tackling and disarming an assault rifle toting gunman before he could open fire on the terrified passengers.
Ny Daily News
2.5
A straight documentary or a film with actors in their parts would have made for a more lasting tribute to their heroism.
JoBlo
5.0
The conceit itself is not exactly revolutionary.Eastwoods execution is.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
The incident on the train accounts for just a few minutes of screen time for another 90 minutes theyre in a flatlined buddy movie, without much help f ..
Philly
2.2
Its a story, though, that deserved to be told better than Eastwood manages to do.
One Guys Opinion
2.5
Just dont be fooled that any of those indulgences helps a movie that could use all the help better actors and a better script might have given it.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.2
The action packed 10 minute heroic sequence was vintage filmmaking.
Sover
0.5
They should be remembered, but The 15:17 to Paris is not the way underline their true grit in the face of absolute horror.
Blu Ray
3.8
The mens heroism seems to materialize and disappear in a flashmuch like youth itself. v
Chicago Reader
1.3
It would be fair, though, to say that the movie provides nothing of substance.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
This weeks films Loveless 15, 124 mins The 15:17 to Paris 15, 94 mins The fifth feature by the Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, which was recently ..
The Times
1.0
Anthony Sadler is one of three heroes of the real life terror attack who play themselves in the movie AP There are great and important movies to be ma ..
The Times
2.5
Theres no story to tell until the thing happens, and once it happens, its over in a few minutes. Its not a movie, its an anecdote.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
The young men do quite well, and Eastwood delivers a polished product with a tightly staged climax.
News Review
1.0
Ultimately, its greatest shortcoming is that its lazy, half hearted button pushing, more grimly tedious than gung ho.
Radio Times
3.1
That the point, to show how good, old fashioned American heroism can rise out ordinary behavior, and the idea sounds fine in theory.
Rolling Stone
2.5
Oddly, Eastwoods loose direction leaves them sometimes looking rather lost.
Shadows On The Wall
2.5
See Photos: Unforgiven Turns 25: 14 Reasons Why Clint Eastwood Film Is One of the Best Westerns We get the fact that Hollywood usually makes everybody ..
The Wrap
3.5
If you think what they do and say isnt exciting enough, this is still the story they lived, the story they wanted to tell.Eastwood asks us to see beyo ..
Film Journal
1.0
The script, instead of developing several good ideas there are interesting things in there about destiny and friendship and bravery becomes too burden ..
Hindustan Times
1.0
This woefully misjudged quasi experimental film by Clint Eastwood, which celebrates the real life heroism, in 2015, of three American tourists in Euro ..
The Guardian
2.0
But perhaps thats what life is dull.Especially compared to a sudden burst of frenetic, heroic activity on a train when youre faced with a religious mu ..
The Guardian
1.0
Clint Eastwood has probably forgotten more about directing than most directors will ever learn and all that he has forgotten is apparent in this movie ..
Smh
2.5
The result is a case study in why getting things right isnt necessarily the right way to make a movie.Facts can be really dull.
Star Tribune
1.9
In the films second worst scene, Stone and Sadler are looking out over the rooftops of Venice, and Stone delivers an awkward speech, saying.
Q Network
1.0
My own rather lower purpose is to dissuade you from seeing the worst film that Eastwood has ever made.
Daily Mail
1.5
The performances paint the story with a phoniness thats as ironic as it is distracting.
Ew
2.0
The story of the Sacramento Hometown heroes is one of the great modern stories of heroism and courage in the face of sheer danger.
Cinema Crazed
1.0
That impulse to interrogate what heroism means seems to have gone out of Eastwood altogether, replaced by morally vacant recapitulations of the myth o ..
Slate
2.0
Dorothy Blyskals debut screenplay alternates between cliches and clunky exposition.
Flim List
1.0
More broadly, through the films dramatic climax, Eastwood is striving for a message of humanity and heroism that transcends national coding.
Film Inquiry
2.0
But it doesnt compensate for a thematically muddled dramatically inert journey.
Empire
2.5
Their spontaneous heroism inspired Clint Eastwood not only to film their story but also to cast Spencer Stone, Alex Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler as th ..
Susang Ranger
2.5
But they all kept in touch and shaped up without ever completely abandoning their capacity for rebellious fun.
Observer
3.0
The first half of this drama is slow and awkward, mainly due to the stars amateurish acting; but once it finally gets going, Eastwoods skilled touch r ..
Common Sense Media
2.0
The closing moments will absolutely ensure you salute these brave men, but the preceding 80 minutes are a boring, failed experiment.
Flickering Myth
3.5
The new Clint Eastwood movie, The 15:17 to Paris, may be the weirdest film of the year.Its a thrusting reactionary fable that ends up bumping into the ..
New Yorker
5.0
It sounded brave enough when we all first heard about it.But its even more remarkable as Eastwood renders it, and the menall charmers, with none of th ..
Time
3.8
Since making American Sniper, Clint Eastwood has turned to American heroism as a theme.
Boston Herald
2.5
Yet Eastwood has never been resolved on the divide between institution and self.
Slant Magazine
3.5
But the thing to admire about The 15:17 to Paris is precisely its artlessness.
The New York Times
3.0
The 15:17 To Paris: Clint Eastwood has enlisted the heroic trio to play themselves Unusually Eastwood has enlisted the heroic trio to play themselves. ..
Express
2.8
This feels less like an honest examination of true heroism and more Christian inspirational literature.
The Film Stage
1.9
It cant be easy to play yourself in a movie.The performances this movie rests on feel tentative, hesitant, slightly sheepish.
Chicago Tribune
3.5
Superficially, it ought to have a lot in common with Eastwoods last movie, Sully.Both are about a few life defining moments of heroism.
Uproxx
0.0
(Perhaps the only thing that The 15:17 to Paris is good for is demonstrating that getting an audience to empathize with a character onscreen truly is ..
Flickfilosopher
2.0
While the actual re enactment of the tussle with El Khazzani is thrilling and surprisingly moving, the movie leading up to it, particularly the young ..
The Irish Times
2.5
But Eastwood has lately tapped into it very effectively, finding the heroic in everyday people who, simply put, rise to the occasion.
Hollywood Reporter
3.5
This is a pretty big jump, but when you see the movie they all give such good performances theres no way to know that they arent professional actors.
Tony Medley
2.0
Though none of the trio should give up their day jobs just yet, its not their lack of compelling charisma that is the pictures main problem, but rathe ..
Los Angeles Times
3.5
The oddity of the movie and this is baked into the way Eastwood conceived it, sticking to the facts and not over hyping anything is that this vision o ..
Variety
1.8
Maybe its a little of all of that, but the film just comes across as aimless.Its a sticky mess of themes that never comes together.
Consequence Of Sound
3.1
And while it didnt bother me too much, the audience I saw the film with couldnt resist giggling and groaning.
Reel Film
2.0
Despite purporting to tell a touching story about bravery and heroism in the eye of mindless violence, Clint Eastwoods latest offering as director, Th ..
Hey U Guys
2.5
Article Continued Below The same Git R Done spirit and reckless plasticity infuse terror train chronicle The 15:17 to Paris, Eastwoods latest exercise ..
The Star
2.2
Its an inspiring story, but Eastwood cant find the spark to bring it life.
The Play List
1.0
They might have fared better with a filmmaker who actually works with his actors to shape performance and character, something Eastwood has been proud ..
Now Toronto
3.1
Its inspirational, moving and even acted by the real life participants.
Deseret News
1.5
Eastwood is committed to depicting every single unremarkable step along the way.
Tamp A Bay
1.9
But in the remaining 83 minutes of this movies brief running time, Eastwood is at the very bottom of his game, interspersing quick cuts to the train r ..
New York Post
3.0
Clint Eastwood has taken the brave and novel approach of casting the three heroes Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos as themselves and i ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.0
Another cool and subtle treatise on the nature of heroism from this American master.
Lw Lies
1.0
It is an utter disaster; a staggeringly incompetent and woefully misjudged exercise.Why
Independent Ie
1.0
Stupid, daft, implausible, remedial these are just some of the words one could use to describe the Fifty Shades movie franchise.I cannot speak with au ..
Independent Ie
3.0
AP:Associated Press 3 Clint Eastwood has cast the three real life American heroes to play in a film about their own story The two time Oscar winning d ..
The Sun
1.5
Its unquestionably an act of heroism, but not all acts of heroism can hold their own in a feature.What may be most remarkable in the making of this fi ..
Film
2.5
Occasionally and for the briefest of moments, Eastwood flashes forward to the incident on the train.
Chicago Sun Times
2.0
The first hour of The 15:17 to Paris is painfully slow.The scenes are disjointed and clumsy.
Movie Web
0.5
The most amateurish, inadvertently funny studio film in recent memory.
Cinemix Tape
3.0
The incident made for a thrilling news story but this does not automatically make it the easiest subject for a movie.
Straits Times
2.0
Hero worship in Eastwood movies is typically as irresistible as it is perilous.
The Ringer
4.0
The lack of the usual Hollywood showboating in favor of reality is admirable, if dull in some spots, but the idea of doing this is audacious and makes ..
Dead Line
1.5
Instead they just coast through increasingly random and meaningless scenes, unaided by Eastwoods emotionless direction, and completely hindered by a h ..
Metro New York
5.0
The movies characters deliver everything from its exposition to its themes in thudding declarative dialogue.
Film Comment
3.5
Delivering a heroic and inspiring true story, Eastwood doesnt let us down.
Solzy At The Movies
3.0
For Clint, there is this, a spiritual meditation on how goodness and courage can sometimes look very plain indeed.
The Skinny
3.1
The brief but exciting climax almost, but not quite, redeems such deficiencies.
Post Gazette
1.5
Though Eastwoods direction is typically clean and efficient, this earlygoing is sabotaged by the amateurishness of its young actors.
The Daily Beast
3.5
But hes still making strong, competent movies.Eastwood will be 88 in May.
Guide Live
1.9
Yet even here, the existential implications outweigh the physical evidence come to think of it, its really the only way a movie of this nature should ..
Clclt
1.2
A well written conversation on the train couldve easily accomplished the same.
Fresh Fiction
3.5
click to enlarge Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, and Spencer Stone (left to right) have no idea what awaits them in The 15:17 To Paris.
East Bay Express
4.0
I posit that Eastwood could be attempting something truly revolutionary.
Seven Day Svt
1.5
A true story told dully is a dull story; a true story told banally is a banal story.
Tony Mack
2.0
Eastwood delivers a technically excellent product even pushing 88, the guy isnt slowing down, and more power to him but he needs more nuance in this o ..
National Post
5.0
The climactic train sequence is heroic and thrilling, but it lasted only a few minutes in each of its participants lives.
New Republic
5.0
New generations of performers particularly comic actors created a vogue that corroded the idea of military heroism and instead celebrated sarcasm and ..
National Review
1.0
Eastwood and his screenwriter failed to build much of a movie around a few minutes of immense courage.
National Review
2.0
The films tense and expertly staged finale is a fitting reminder of this astonishingly selfless act.
Daily Star
2.5
The movie, simple and straightforward, derives most of its appeal from its verisimilitude from its distinctly un Hollywood ness.
Ap News
1.3
There is supposed to be drama in contrast, between pleasure trip and harrowing train attack, and youthful mischief and grown up heroism.
Sf Chronicle
1.0
Eastwood seems utterly disinterested in discerning true belief from well sold machination for anyone here.
Mid West Film Journal
3.5
A multi layered shame, even acknowledging that The 15:17 to Paris is close to disastrous by the metrics of any movie, not just war or war adjacent mov ..
Thril List
2.5
The final 20 minutes aboard the train are as riveting as they are harrowing, slow and quick, brutal and awkward with plenty of grimace invoking moment ..
Cambridge Day
2.2
But, its also silly to think that they could carry a feature length film to its conclusion.Kudos to Eastwood for good intentions, but stories, like tr ..
Movie Chambers
1.0
Its like Eastwood is gone, and the empty chair is directing the movie.
Metro Active
1.0
It was brave but every day there are many acts of heroism probably greater than this one.American exceptionalism has inflated its importance, which is ..
Impulse Gamer
1.5
If you do not know the story before you go watch the film, the first hour of its 94 minute runtime serves as a wonderful buildup as Eastwood places al ..
Cinema Express
1.5
Its a hybrid; worse, its a pretty boring hybrid.It doesnt really matter if Stone, Sadler and Skarlatos can act or not.
Saportare Port
1.3
Simply put, this is one of the most ill advised biopics to grace screens in years.
The Film File
2.5
The action sequence on the train is truly remarkable, and Eastwood shoots with a documentary style immediacy, but the surrounding film especially the ..
Twin Cities
3.5
At the helm is veteran filmmaker Clint Eastwood (American Sniper, Sully), whose very laconic, sparse style of direction largely serves the film well.N ..
Dwight Brown Ink
2.0
The staging of the takedown aboard the train is, as expected, riveting, thrilling and terrifying.
Screen Space(Squarespace)
4.0
A considered pointlessness pervades the travel sequences in the film, enervating to many I suspect, but ultimately rewarding: It is refreshing to enco ..
Mubi
4.0
But at least in technical terms it does display the professional quality that marks Eastwoods typical filmmaking style.
Spokane7
3.5
Its as if Eastwood told them to forget the cameras and just be themselves. They are pretty good and believable as first time actors.
Ncr Online
1.5
Director Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Dorothy Blyskal never even attempt to give us a complete story.
Films In Review
2.5
But its in these menial moments that Eastwood most fully commits to the non actor project, in the process producing frequently charming results.
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