Alien at the Movies

Bullet Train Explosion

Here is Japan’s answer to the 1994 “Speed” movie where a city bus with passengers onboard will explode if the speed drops below 50 mph. Of course, why not go bigger & faster. Someone plants a bomb on one of Japan’s speedy bullet trains loaded with passengers. If the train’s speed drops below 100 kph, it will explode. They have less than 6 hours before the train reaches its Tokyo final destination to develop a feasible rescue plan. Tempers flair as panic on the train erupts. Can they save the passengers? Can they find & defuse the bomb? Will they find the bomber? Fortunately, the audio was dubbed in English. The plot is fairly predictable but I️ liked how they MacGyver-ed the rescue.

Alien gives it 2 “slowing down the bullet train” stars out of 4.