Review of The Midnight Meat Train (2008) by Matt W — 22 Mar 2011
"Please, step away from the meat." A photographer is hoping to get his big break when he's given the opportunity to showcase his work in some art gallery runned by Brooke Shields, not literally, I forgot the name of her character. This would get him into a networking situation, but his views on wanting to capture the city of New York, the way he sees it, don't work for Shields character. So, one night he goes out on the prowl and takes some snap shots of a young woman at a train station who is about to be raped. He steps in and saves her, just in time for her to catch the next train which would lead to her ultimate demise.
He presents Shields with his snapshots of this woman and she is immediately interested and wants him to take two more snapshots that are close to the same situation he captured. This leads him back to the train station where he follows a man, played extremely well by Vinnie Jones. His interest in this man becomes an obsession since he spotted him the night of when that young woman was murdered, that he saved. The ring on Jones's hand is what triggers this realization.
His girlfriend, played by Leslie Bibb, is the usual cliche of the horror movie girlfriend who is worried about her boyfriend. When he's out way too late and then returning back to the apartment after being marked from some creature after witnessing Jones's gorey murders and getting captured by him, she decides to retrieve the camera for which Jones took from him which has all the incriminating evidence to put Jones away, but Jones isn't exactly human.
There is a conspiracy going on and you start to see that with the conductor of the train and detective who of course doesn't believe anything the girlfriend says. The ending is good though which provides A LOT of gore and carnage when Jones battles it out with the photographer. I wish there was more development in the history of this butcher because too much is left unspoken. Overall, it's gorey, dumb and a typical horror flick.
This review of The Midnight Meat Train (2008) was written by Matt W on 22 Mar 2011.
The Midnight Meat Train has generally received mixed reviews.
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