Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

WakenPayne I would say watch this movie with the intention in mind that film had only really existed for about 15 years maximum considering I've seen footage from the 1880's. I will say that back then there was no story to speak of with any movie at the time and I don't think many people saw the potential for what it could do. So this gave birth to film editing. I will say the plot is really nothing special but being that this is the first go at editing in history I thought I should talk about the technical elements. I was impressed by how much this felt like it was The Wild West and I also liked how many people they took in to get this made when at this point, film was just a cheap amusement to the public eye. But there are some weaknesses with it, To say the number of robbers in the robbery is inconsistent is an understatement. First there's 2, then 4, then 3 it's a mess. That and I don't know what the significance of the last shot is. It's one of a guy in a stationary location that has nothing to do with what has been seen looking directly at you and firing a gun. I guess because back then editing was a new concept that they could get some of the cheap amusement side of it that it was at the time at the ending but I don't think it ages well. All in all, I would say watch it if you're a fan of westerns or want to know about film history.

SenjoorMutt 'The Great Train Robbery' considered to be the first western and action film as it was first film that laid out the recognizable genre form. Milestone film that used on-location shooting and frequent camera movements.Story is very simplistic, but it was the time when directors and writers seriously started to develop film as a story telling devise, rather than simply showing factory workers walking home. Despite it's simplistic story 'The Great Train Robbery' cemented the themes that became generally popular in western genre - outlaws, bandits, robberies and lawmen. And of course small comic relief in the dance hall where local men shooting at the feet of a dancing stranger.

preston_peace Many films back then and especially now are kind of sloppy. I don't mean that in a bad way. My favorite films are messes. Mostly because it gives a little heart to the film and little themes are scattered throughout the films. However, The Great Train Robbery is one of those messes that manages to be deep, beautiful, scary, and in some weird way, focused.The film in a nutshell is a train robbery committed by four robbers. They go through the steps of the robbery of a train and it ends- well, I don't want to spoil it. Now, by 1900s standards, this must've been horrifying. In this film, the viewer witnesses brutal murders, constant shootings, and a guy literally shoots the camera. Film was barely thirty years old. Movies were still being shown in tents and people were still ducking out of the way if they saw something move even close to the screen. But the people making this film knew that. They wanted people to be scared. They wanted their minds challenged. And that's what this film is, a challenge.The film isn't about the robbers or the cops, good vs. bad, or order vs. chaos, it's about bad people doing bad things and how they would go about doing that bad thing. In other words, the movie isn't about the particular person, it's about the robbery itself. The people who die in this film are because of that robbery, not because bad people do bad things, but because bad people need to eat, and a train robbery is a good place to find cash.The film, as a whole, is very simple. Because of this, when something happens in this in this film, you know that something's "happened". It's a great work of art.

ofpsmith This amazing picture is only 10 minutes long. So I could watch this while waiting to be taken to school, which I did once. But it's very innovative in that it tells a story to the audience. A group of bandits during the wild west period stick up a train and rob the passengers. Then they steal a train and run off. A posse of armed men pursues them and there is soon a big shootout in the woods somewhere. And that's really about it. But it's influential mainly because it's one of the first films ever to tell a story however brief it may be. It features a very famous shot at the end when one of the bandits looks straight at the camera then he fires at the camera. And then the film ends. Some versions I've found even have colored in aspects, like red smoke or something like that. There are a lot of versions on you tube to watch it so by all means please do so.