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A photographer (ALIAS's Bradley Cooper) gets far more than he imagines when he tries to capture the grit and grime of the city. While taking pictures of the subway, he encounters Mahogany (Vinnie Jones, SNATCH), a vicious killer who preys on subway riders. Ryuhei Kitamura (VERSUS) directs this adaptation of a Clive Barker short story.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad at all!, 26 Jan 2009

By	KM (England) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

`The Midnight Meat Train' is a horror thriller adapted from Clive Barker's short story. It is about a young photographer who is trying to make his big break by taking photos of late-night life in New York City. One night he saves a model from being attacked and she is later murdered on the same night. He then looks into this murder and finds that he is now on the trail of a vicious killer known as The Butcher who kills his victims on the last train.

I wasn't expecting much from this to be honest but it was surprisingly a fairly decent horror. It starts off fairly slowly but picks up about halfway through and is then literally non-stop thrills until the end. The gore is strong with some very gruesome and impressive special effects but is subtly used early on. Vinnie Jones' character is truly terrifying and mysterious and is someone I'd never like to meet. The only thing that lets this down is the poor ending which didn't really live up to the quality of the rest of the film and I felt it was very sloppily written.

Overall it is a good film that is definitely worth at least a rent. If you're a fan of horror then this is great!

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4.0 out of 5 stars The midnight gore train, 18 Feb 2009

By	PJ Rankine (Wallington, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Well our Vinnie has now made the transition from thug to monster and didn't he do well. With only one word to speak in the whole film he manages to convey a sense of threat and menace by facial expression alone and does an excellent job. Overall I would have graded this film a 7/10 but obviously Amazon only uses five stars so I'll be generous. The ending will not be implausible to Clive Barker fans because of course you will already know what it's about and you won't be disappointed. Apparently the director's cut/uncut is the only version available on dvd and it is pretty hard core and not for the squeamish. It's beautifully filmed, especially the urban night scenes and the shot where the hero is about to descend the stairs into the subway is beautiful, wish I'd shot it myself. Some found the hero's pursuit of the killer a little implausible too but I saw it more of a morality tale in that he was reaping the rewards for his own greed and Barker does like to expose humanity's failings as well as their strengths in his books. Calling Mahogany a serial killer is a bit of a misnomer - he's a monster - and he makes this horror film worth a watch if this is your bag.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Meat Is murder., 14 Sep 2009

By	russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Adapted from a Clive Barker short story from his Books of Blood Omnibus: v. 1 The Midnight Meat Train , like the cinematic adaptation of Rawhead Rex [DVD] [1986] before it , eschews the lyricism and atmosphere of his written work for something far more popcorn and straight up visceral.
Though the city in the film is never named the book had it set in New York , so we'll assume the film does the same. People are disappearing on the subway late at night. We know this because the film opens with some unfortunate soul on the tube being butchered by a hammer wielding nut-job who we learn is called Mahogany. Played by a perma -scowling Vinnie Jones Mahogany is a man of very few words ( just as well considering Vinnie,s verbal acting skills) indeed he only speaks very briefly at the end of the film. . It turns out Mahogany isn't just some random lunatic killing people for kicks but carries out his grim task for a distinct reason.
Photographer Lenny Kaufman (Bradley Cooper ) scours the city streets late at night searching for his muse so he can impress hard faced studio boss (Brooke Shields ) . Descending to the subway he interrupts a gang hassling a young women . Unlikely though it may seem he saves the day( or night ) for her and last see's her entering a subway train , only for her to turn up on the front page of next days newspaper as reported missing. He reports the incident to the police who are about as useful as a chocolate teapot with no spout, though there are nefarious reasons for this too . He clocks onto the distinctive suit clad Mahogany and starts to follow him and so begins a game of cat and mouse which in real life would lead to thinking -you know what ,this is a bit too risky I,ll leave it alone. This being cinema-land he puts himself and by proxy his lovely girlfriend May ( Leslie Bibb ) in mortal danger.
Director Ryuhei Kitamura has a real eye for composition, some of the shots and scenes have a real chromatic beauty but he is also guilty of taking almost sadistic pleasure in the gore and mayhem .Midnight Meat Train is a horror film sure, but the slow-mo shot of an unfortunate victims head being pulped and his eyeball popping out is gratuitous. Perhaps most importantly the films revelation of why Mahogany does what he does is botched , losing the books almost elegiac power and depth in a welter of gore and half baked verbiage.
The Midnight Meat Train in the end amounts to nothing more than an extremely good looking gore fest. It eschews the short storys logical narrative and sense of mythic importance for splatter and silly indifference. It comes to something when Vinnie Jones is the best thing in a film but as Mahogany Mr Jones gives us the only character we can really believe in. To paraphrase the story this film is no palace of delights but a sordid dip in visceral mayhem.

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