Review of The 15:17 to Paris (2018) by Sonrisas — 13 Feb 2018

I think Clint could have made this into a nice movie short-maybe 45 minutes. That's about the length of time it would take to cover relevant detail on Spencer Stone's background and add some detail for Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos that was missing.

At 96 minutes running time, it still needed significant editing. The middle portion of the movie, which showed the guys touring Europe before the fateful train trip, was especially tedious and included banal dialogue and little of interest.

We didn't learn much about our heroes from that, so why include it? And how did I emerge from that movie having watched four people subdue a terrorist and aid a badly injured man and still not feel a sense of tremendous pride and nationalism? Perhaps it was too unpretentious and too concerned with an accurate retelling complete with mundane detail? I don't know.

What I do know is there was vastly more dramatic tension and emotion in the low budget Bollywood movie I saw yesterday, Pad Man, about a dude in India who devoted is life to developing a cheap menstrual pad to save the lives of many women there.

That's a movie worth seeing. This was a mess and should be a source of embarrassment for Clint Eastwood.