The 15:17 To Paris
Genre: Bad Bonkers, Drama, Faith-Based, Military Fetish
The Good
The Bad
The passengers on the 15:17 to Paris may have averted a disaster, but the filmmakers did not.
Two distinct levels of creative inanity converge in Clint Eastwood’s must-see disaster “The 15:17 to Paris.” First is the decision to tell this story as a God’s Not Dead style “faith based” movie in which a direct line is somehow drawn from Christianity through guns, warfare, and partying in Amsterdam to the chance thwarting of a terrorist on a train in Europe. Then there is the calamitous choice to have the heroes portray themselves in the movie. These guys are genuinely heroic and the real-life story is impressive and inspiring. This movie, on the other hand, is a boring, cringe-worthy mess. Within the first five minutes Judy Greer, playing the mother of one of the heroes as a boy, yells at a public school teacher “My God is bigger than your statistics!!”, and I knew I was watching something very special. This film was definitely directed by “Yelling at an Empty Chair” Clint Eastwood.
