I put this on last night cause it was next after...whatever the fuck I watched last. The Mormon movie. I watched this one, and here's a general thought on the 80's boxset so far:
I'm not a big fan so far. These late 80's movies are all trying too hard, and the early 80's movies are just bad. These movies are spread out in terms of plot and type, but so far not a good movie. Shadows in the Storm is probably the best so far! It had the best pacing, the best acting, and the most actual intrigue.
This movie is about a train carrying Winston Churchill that's going to a conference somewhere. The bad guy Germans get wind of this and they plant dynamite on the train, and good guy Jason Connery as Alan Cooper is the only one who knows this, so it's up to him to stop it. He gets sent in solo to do so, and the movie is his best effort to stop the train and save the president...
Aaaannd, it's pretty okay. It was certainly slow sometimes, it wasn't greatly paced, but it had some decent action parts towards the end especially, and it has a ticking clock that's done well. There is a part at the end where the Germans are shooting up the train, and the amount of characters that we know who are shot was very high. It was nice to not just have anonymous randos shot who we don't care about, but rather the guy we've seen several times.
Pleasence is one of the British commandos in charge, and he's in about 6 scenes total, mumbling nonsense dialogue about this or that. It's not even a film for Pleasence completists like myself. Directed by Sergio Martino who did Hands of Steel and Alligator, it's competent enough and not amateur feeling, but it certainly isn't a great movie by any stretch. I've given both of those around 3 stars, and I'll give this 2.5 stars.
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