1995’s Money Train is not a movie I caught at the time of its release, although it very much ticks all the boxes in terms of my cinematic tastes of that era. Big, loud and stupid with an incoherent plot, Money Train is a movie that is more concerned with crowbarring as many action movie clichés onto the screen than it ever is with any kind of internal logic.
Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Lopez do all they can with the material they have available, and possibly make it more tolerable than it deserves to be. I think I’d have enjoyed it back in the nineties, but it hasn’t stood the test of time especially well. It is such as nineties movie though, that despite having missed it then, I somehow found myself forgiving all of its shortcomings on the basis that the ‘DNA’ of the film made me feel nostalgic about the (admittedly pretty awful) movies that I watched back then.
Score for Christmasishness
This has been on my ‘to watch’ list for a while, because even the trailer suggests it has a lot of Christmas(ish) credentials. I was never willing to part with cash to watch it though, so had to wait until it appeared on one of the streaming services I already subscribe to. Which it eventually did. And it is really Christmas(ish) – the entire story taking place over the Christmas period and culminating on New Years Eve. Insofar as there is a plot, New Years Eve seems to be vaguely relevant but it’s really just a ‘by the numbers’ action flic that could have been set at any time of year.
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