Very Cool!!!

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

With such a strong cast, one would like to assume that the movie would be good. However, lame is the word that comes to mind. I am surprised Brosnan would do such a poor film. The story itself was great, but the screen writer/directs and whoever else is ultimately responsible should be shot. I will admit that I watched the entire movie, because I never gave up hope that it would get better. It reminds me of Segal movies, all of which seem to follow this line of thinking, which does not seem to be completely developed! Shame on Patrick Stewart as well. Another fine actor who was tarnished by this movie. I can only hope that some or all of these actors were fulfilling some type of contractual agreements to participate in this film.

I first watched this movie when I was 15. I saw it at the video store and I thought: Hey! Captain Pickard is in it, so it must be good. Although this is not an Oscar-winning film, it is an interesting film for those that are into movies that have Cold War elements to it. The collection of actors is excellent.Some may find the plot of a nuclear bomb on a hijacked train to be an absurd plot since everyone wants to know why the bad guys didn't fly it. If you pay attention to the movie, you are told why. In my opinion, the only thing that this movie lacked was realism, especially with the gunfights. Hey, I have seen worse movies though.Overall, I would suggest you buy this movie if you find it. It is not in production anymore, and it is easy to watch with a bag of buttered popcorn. Enjoy:)

When I found `Detonator' at the video store and saw that it had Patrick Stewart and Pierce Brosnan in the staring roles, I got my hopes up. I thought, with Captain Pacard and James Bond in the movie, it should be pretty good. Then I saw that Alexandra Paul and Christopher Lee were also in the movie and thought with a cast like that, how could the film help but be good. Well, I found out. The premise of the movie is not bad; a fanatical Russian military man (Christopher Lee) builds a nuclear bomb and tries to detonate it, on a train bound for Iran, to trigger a military resurrection of the former Soviet Union. Of course, an elite team of United Nations commandos (Patrick Stewart, Pierce Brosnan and Alexandra Paul) tries to stop the train before ultimate fireworks show takes place. Maybe not the most original storyline for an action/adventure movie, but it had some potential.Unfortunately, not even this cast could make up for the horrible script `Detonator' offers. This is not the first script David Jackson has written, but it sure seems like it. In fact, the dialog is so dry and uninspired, that the chemistry one would expect between actors of this caliber is absolutely non-existent; which makes this movie boring, and a real disappointment.

Even if there had not been stars like Stewart and Brosnan, the movie would have been a great disappointment. To be precise, this is the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen. Want examples? 1. I've never seen such lame "action" scenes (even if the train had stopped at every single station along the way, there would not have been so many people shuffling back and forth as the accumulated number of entries and exits by the SWAT team, not to mention their really "excellent" shooting skills). 2. Really lame German cops. They may not be as flashy as a U.S. SWAT team, but they are NOT dumb! 3. At the Zagreb station, when the Baywatch babe finds out about the Russian's phone call, there is an announcement in the background calling for people to board a FLIGHT (even in Croatia, airplanes do not land at train stations....) 4. In one scene, a guy on the bad Russian's team talks Croatian for a few sentences, then switches to Russian. 5. The modified camera had a fully automatic, built-in transmitter to GNN headquarters, can you get me one of these? 6. One of my favorites: The German dispatcher has absolutely no problems fumbling with the Swiss, Italian, Slovenian and Croatian railway systems. They can all be controlled via his computer. Can you get me on of these? 7. Whatever the Baywatch babe fires her gas grenades from, that's not an M203. 8. It's pretty hard to hit a window on a moving train with unguided rockets fired from a helicopter. (...)Oh Jean-Luc, what have they paid you for this? If I had to guess, I 'd say a billion dollars....