Aquel maldito tren blindado

"There are partisans on the locomotive. Pass it on." A motorbike, hundreds of dead, some naked girls with sub-machine guns, an armored train, deserters, a svelt female partisan, the Resistance, an attack on a castle, non-stop action and all... Simply rather B-movie-like, but absolutely excellent copycat movie. No wonder that it’s one of Tarantino’s (many) favorites that he has been planning to do a remake of for many years now. Fred Williamson is a first-class masseur. Standing there firmly, rocking his pelvis from side to side, with his finger on the trigger. Employing this approach he manages during the hour and a half to massacre the entire German male population up to the age of fifty-five. And the best thing about this is that the movie doesn’t take itself seriously even for one minute. Otherwise this wouldn’t have worked at all. (12.03.2008)

Mr. Tarantino loves this film so much that he even paid homage to it in Inglourious Basterds. Well... I'm very glad that his variation on the B-movie theme of a "super tough bunch of soldiers cracking jokes and mowing down Nazis by the hundreds, it’s a wonder they don't win the war" is about a hundred thousand times better. I was damn tired of that damn armored train. I was expecting it to be a B-movie, to be silly and for the main characters to behave exactly as Chuck Norris would have done in the multiple roles... But why wasn't it funny? Or, why didn't I find it funny? At least a little, damn it! The opening ten minutes were quite promising. Well, I guess I need more perspective. Much, much more perspective. (15.10.2011)