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5. The Midnight Meat Train (Amazon Prime)

This is a movie that is only as good as it is because it had a truly different and visionary director to take one of Clive Barker's twisted short stories into something huge. Ryuhei Kitamura takes this film and makes it a stylistic, bloody affair.

The Midnight Meat Train is about a man, played by Vinnie Jones, who is butchering people on a late night subway train, and a photographer, played by Bradley Cooper, investigating exactly what it is he's doing and why.

This movie isn't perfect by any means, and I'll get to that later. But god damn is it ever fun. It's tense and offers a ton of style points for something that's as gruesome as it is. It never feels dull. I can't quite explain it, but this movie feels sleek, from the color pallet, to the action, to the unique presentation. It can't state enough about how well-done this movie is, just from a presentation standpoint. It's easily the best part.

Even the plot is interesting. It's simple. Just a man following a mute psychopath who is intent on murdering everyone on this train. He has a girlfriend who is begging him to stop and is rather reasonable throughout the movie until she does Dumb Horror Movie Things. Aside from that, it keeps you compelled through the whole thing.

I've watched this movie a few times, and every single time I watch this I keep trying to look for something new. Maybe something I missed in this movie to really make the ending feel it just doesn't come out of fucking nowhere. And every single time I watch this movie, I still come away saying "Where did all of this come from?" And further... why are we given such a tiny glimpse at it? Those who have seen it probably know what I'm talking about. A little foreshadowing would have done this movie a lot of good, I think. And it's such a distracting issue for me when I watch this movie because I just don't understand how they thrust all of that in front of us with barely anything else before that to explain it.

But here's the thing: despite that, it's such a good ass movie. I love watching it. I'm always entertained. I love watching it unfold. And if it had a little bit more to help make the ending better, I think I would've rated this higher than I did. But I cannot go any further than this. And it's by no means a bad score at all. Hell, it's probably higher than a lot of people might put it. But it just misses out on being a must watch from me.

Rating: 8/10

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