Manthast Absolutely amazing

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

vfrickey Especially terrible disasters are called "train wrecks." This movie shows us why. Its needlessly convoluted plot creates a movie which at times transcends mere stupidity to be a painful experience, despite the "name" actors and actresses which it features.This film's significance is probably as a footnote to the history of Rob Lowe's comeback (it originally aired just before the premiere of "The West Wing," if I recall correctly, and on NBC, the same US television network as "West Wing").I originally gave this turkey a "7" rating, but having watched it twice since (SciFi Network likes to play it on national holidays next to "The Day After," please don't ask me why... ) I can't see why I gave it such an undeservedly high rating. It's more like a "3." "Needlessly convoluted" how, you ask? Well, how about Soviet nuclear weapons turning up as scrap in an American boxcar - when the sleazy scrap dealer could have made more money billing the US Department of Energy to transport them according to the regulations for such things (in the real-life Nunn-Lugar nuclear threat reduction program, the US Enrichment Corporation buys just the plutonium, not nuclear weapons - the Russians decommission their nuclear weapons in-country and ship us the special nuclear material). Even then, plutonium travels under heavily armed escort in this country - on armored semis, not trains, and there's never a whole bomb's worth (a "formula quantity") of weapons-grade fissile on the roads of the US at any given time.Whoppers like crates full of assembled Soviet nukes traveling as cargo inside civilian boxcars don't as much harm as obliterate willing suspension of disbelief in the audience.The acting is undistinguished - of course, for his comeback, all Rob Lowe had to do is stay out of trouble with the young ladies off camera during filming, but he put in a decent performance - nothing to write home about. But no one really shines in this film - Edward Herrmann gave better performances during his commercials for Dodge around the same time.The two-part nature of this presentation (it originally was a two-part miniseries on NBC) also causes problems - the movie shifts from being a mildly plausible sci-fi thriller in Part One to a survivalist cliff-hanger adventure (still not very plausible) and the psychological subplots detract from the pace of the production badly.I can't recommend this film for anything but background noise while one's busy doing other things. If you pay full attention to what's happening in this turkey, you actually enjoy it less. "Atomic Train" is an embarrassment to all involved in its creation.

xredgarnetx You've heard of dark territory. In ATOMIC TRAIN, welcome to stupid territory. A nuclear device is aboard a runaway train headed for Denver, and it is up to Rob Lowe (!) to save everyone. A fun movie to watch in part for the inept acting and implausible plot, ATOMIC TRAIN is longer than the train itself, and runs for what seems like endless hours. You know Lowe isn't going to die, so it becomes a game to see how often the scripters can put his life in peril. We also know the bomb cannot blow up simply by crashing the train, so we watch bemusedly as everyone frets and runs riot, thinking they are going to die. Watch it for Lowe, if no other reason. He acts his little heart out.

pukasan This is a movie of a "net", it has nothing but holes. However...the movie is so ridiculously lousy that it made me laugh and i can't help to start liking it , Maybe they made the movie this way on purpose because it's impossible to get this many morons working together and make a movie this bad.Think about A.T. as a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" movie then you can really enjoy non-stop laughing and cussing for 2 good hours. Every character in A.T. dies with a great-hilarious reason. i love every part when people get killed in this movie. the fat guy fell off and got smashed by the train, a kid climbed back up the train from the last car but tripped and got killed walking toward the back? and it's super funny when the "water is better than nothing" helicopter hillbillies screw up and, BOOM!. They should really make more people die in this movie. maybe Kristin Davis and Mena Suvari can show their boobs in the movie, they should get killed while having sex or swimming naked. and also, where is the dog in this movie? there should always be a dog in a movie like this, It can be a goofy K9 dog helping a bimbo soldier disarming the nuke weapon and both got toasted.by the way, this movie is totally not shot in Colorado, (very likely in BC, Canada). But of course they don't care if you know or notice it. This movie can be fantastic when you are high, it's so much more entertaining than "jeepers creepers". If you like this movie because it's just ridiculously dumb and funny, you might love "the Room", that is a cult classic of this kind!

The_Red_Harlot Somebody really forgot the basics of screen writing with this dog of a movie. Why oh why did Hollywood torment us with this crap?SPOILER ALERT! S P O I L E R S !!! SPOILER ALERT! S P O I L E R S !!!SPOILER ALERT! S P O I L E R S !!!I did like the shootout with the psycho militia MFs, but then again, that was the only, the ONLY believable part about this silly film.AND WHY OH WHY DID THE NICE BLACK MAN END UP BEING THE CRISPY SACRIFICE? The black guy really does get blown up or killed in EVERY FILM--and this film is just full of stereotypes and clichés! And WHY OH WHY did the stupid redneck yahoos end up being the idiots with the water bucket? And why oh why did nothing in this film make sense, including the stupid highway being blocked off? It's amateur night for sure, folks. Don't waste your time watching this dog. You should only watch this film if you like being bored out of your skull. Wait until the last bit of the movie when the bomb blows up if you like watching people flying in the air along with the glass and flames, but otherwise don't bother watching this--not even on cable!