Like a bad sermon, _The 15:17 to Paris_ is boring, pointless and irredeemable. The actions of the three Americans who sextuple handedly thwarted a terrorist attack in a train between Amsterdam and Paris deserve more than this slapdash travelogue carelessly thrown together by Clint Eastwood. Clint (who once called me a 'pussy'*) dishonours these men's bravery with a surprising and uncharacteristically amateurish production. The best way to pay tribute to these extraordinary heroes is not this film.

*In an August 4, 2016 interview with Esquire magazine, Eastwood stated, "(S)ecretly everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren’t called racist."

It's a cool idea to cast the real life heroes. It's a bad idea if you want to make a good movie. They obviously aren't trained actors so this movie being bad isn't all their fault. The script is terrible. The part in the middle school infuriated me, it made no sense why the teachers were that big of assholes. And Spencer just had a shotgun in his closet? Then going to the training part was ok but then the European trip part was pointless. Just watching them go around Europe wasn't entertaining. Clint Eastwood dropped the ball on this one and was trying to manipulate you into feeling something by using the real heroes.

As per usual, I enjoyed a movie that everybody else hated.

***As close to real life as it gets.***

Real people don't have acting coaches, real life isn't one dilemma right after another, and real fights don't have choreographers. I am so glad I didn't look at the ratings on this film (as I usually do) before going to see it. I haven't read the reviews and probably won't, as I think they might make me mad. If you want to see invisible heroes with superpowers, go see an Avengers film. This is about real people and their real reactions. Does "Real" mean "imperfect"? Absolutely. What I loved most about this film is that it doesn't get into the motives or life of the terrorist. Who cares what his motives were? His actions are what mattered. The message I got from this film was this: When the time comes, will you have courage to make a difference, or will you hunker down and hope someone else does it for you?

Go see this with an open mind.

I went to see this movie because it was Clint Eastwood. I started reading reviews of it today and thought "Is this same movie I saw or are people who write reviews so jaded they can't be entertained?" The movie I saw was a great human story told in a way that made me feel like I was in the room. The cinematography and shot locations are so real and our hero's blend in so seamlessly that I felt like I was on the trip with them. The last time I've been that immersed in a film was the original Star Wars in '79. Simply put the film is Genius.

This be bad.

'The 15:17 to Paris' portrays an event from 2015. The decision by director Clint Eastwood to cast the real life people as themselves was, in my opinion, a poor call. I obviously have nothing against the guys, quite the opposite of course, but they simply cannot act. It's kinda painful watching them, I gotta be honest.

I will say I didn't actually know that was the case before viewing, but I cottoned on fairly quickly whilst watching - especially as Eastwood did similar casting for 'Jersey Boys' four years prior. In terms of actual acting talent, Jenna Fischer and Judy Greer feature minorly.

It isn't just the cast issues, though. The way the plot is set up didn't interest me, the scenes actually onboard the train are solid but that practically only makes up a quarter of the 94 minute run time - the rest is filler, as we see the main trio's lives up until the main event. That would've been fine if the acting was better, but that evidently wasn't the case.

Respect to all involved, but as a film this falls very short.

I'm right now an over 1 hour into it. Stopped watching to comment:
If you want to see the real action (I scrubbed through the timeline), try starting:
**about 01hr 06mins (when they're coming into the train)**
**until maybe 01hr 22mins (when they're out of the train and ambulances etc are around...)**

You're welcome.
Good cast, but a LOOOT of unnecessary fluff. (I'm in that disco scene where they're just discoing that I assume doesn't add anything to the real point of the story, which is _**The 15:17 to Paris**_.)

Not sure if that was the best move of Spencer, if that gun would not have jammed up, he would have been shot and very likely died. :thinking:

Movie was really good. Heroes showed patriotism and solidarity despite being on a different country. #Netflix #COVID19 @1517toparis

The **entire** movie was a waste of time...

[spoiler]The actual "terrorist" part only lasts about 45 seconds and was at the end of the movie[/spoiler]

10/10 would never watch again

Might even sue for pain and suffering