I remember Midnight Meat Train coming out and making some slight waves in the psuedo-cult, psuedo-grindhouse movie fan friends of mine. Vinnie Jones was big at the time, being in the X-Men movie and the Guy Ritchie films. And, I did not remember this stars Bradley Cooper.
With that decent cast, joined by Ted Raimi and Brooke Shields, we have a sorta loose story about a serial killer riding and killing on the train system in Los Angeles. Bradley Cooper is a edgy photographer who is following him in an effort to produce cool visually striking photos. It's pretty much that simple, Cooper has a girlfriend, there's a few other characters I guess, and Vinnie Jones is the serial killer who specializes in killing with a large hammer thing.
Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, The Midnight Meat Train certainly has some visual flair, it has a style going for it. I believe I'd seen his previous films Versus and Alive at this point, and he was making a name for himself with those stylish, fast paced films. This is also around the time that torture porn was making it's round, and the graphic deaths and kills in this are indicative of that fad. It's not quite there, but it's going for it and quite bloody.
I don't really know what to say about it. It is what it is, I suppose, and I didn't love it nor is it bad. The killer is completely inexplicable, he's given no reason and no development, and that's also with the era. None of the characters have depth, so you won't notice. But yeah. Just a thing. I give this a 2.5.
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