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Excellent but underrated film

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I don't mind watching movies that rip-off other movies. The most famous are all those '90s films which became DIE HARD on a... bus, boat, plane, train, you name it. UNDER SIEGE 2 wasn't only a rip-off, but a SEQUEL to a rip-off, yet it's one of my all time favourites for that genre. So when Van Damme's DERAILED came along in 2002, I couldn't quite believe my eyes, because DERAILED is a complete rip-off of UNDER SIEGE 2! So in some strange, convoluted fashion, that makes it a rip-off of a rip-off sequel to a rip-off. If that makes any sense whatsoever.Anyway, judging by the law of diminishing returns, DERAILED has to be a bad film, and a bad film it is. It's diabolical in all respects, but I'd pick the direction as being the absolute nadir of the film. It's no surprise that Bob Misiorowski never helmed another movie after his 'effort' here. With awful MTV-style editing, and a tendency to cut away just as things are getting interesting, he fails on all levels. Combine his sub-par effort with stock library music, boring cinematography and a reliance on silly train models that look like just that, and you have the makings for a Z-grade movie.I can usually forgive all these faults if the action in a film is decent, but it isn't here. It's laughable, with filming so bad that you don't have a clue what's going on. Van Damme isn't to blame; he looks great here, tough and in full health, but the fights are so poorly staged that they offer nothing in the way of excitement. There are a few familiar cast members, including an oddly-scarred chief villain out of THE BOURNE SUPREMACY and the return of the guy who played the Russian assassin in MAXIMUM RISK, but the rest are utterly poor non-actors or bimbos.Probably the worst thing in the film is the CGI work which offers worse animation than you'd find in a modern-day computer game. The motorbike scene on top of the train is the absolute worst (not to mention the hilarious factual error which sees Van Damme jumping his bike on to a passing train going in the opposite direction, continuing to speed along it before jumping off) but there are other bad bits involving cartoon helicopters, rubbish explosions, and a general lack of imagination and effort all round. DERAILED is a so-bad-it's-bad type of film, worth a few laughs but little else, and I certainly won't be going near it ever again.

Bad, bad, bad... This a movie with no story, no acting, no emotions and no sense! It is full of really bad and cheesy special f/x... Why do they insist on making something knowing that they do not have the budget to create them properly. It would have been much better to leave them out completely.In other, the story is nonsensical, we never get the whys and hows, the science is completely flawed, its just action for the sake of action... The viewer could not care less what will happen to the protagonists most of the time... In other words, a total waste of time. The only reason it gets three stars is that there are even worse movies out there.

An agent named Jacques (Van Damme) is forced to do a job on his birthday, much to his family's chagrin. He boards a train to protect a woman named Galina Konstantin. Jacques gets a surprise visit from his family with a birthday surprise, but his wife thinks he's cheating with Galina. Terrorists hop on board with a deadly virus, which is unleashed. Jacques must not only save his marriage, but save everybody on boardThis comes across like a hybrid of Under Siege II & Cassandra's Crossing. This movie was once on the bottom 100. While it is pretty bad, I've seen MUCH worse and even worse Van Damme films (Second in Command & Black Eagle come to mind) the problem is that it's much too cheap and dull for its own good. The ending is filled with laughable stock footage, and I just cringed. It also has a pretty bad moment where Van Damme commandeers a motorbike, and rides it on top of the train. The only good action scene in this movie is a decent car chase scene in the beginning. They pad it with pointless scenes, such as a cowboy (John Bishop) and a hunk (Binky van Bilderbeek) shooting the breeze, and getting drunk in the process, which proves to me that not much thought was put into this movie. Don't expect much vintage Van Damage. He doesn't do many of his patented moves, and we even get the annoying split screen thing with a fight. Believe it or not, the acting is pretty good. Jean-Claude Van Damme may not do many fancy things, but he gives a solid performance. He's not phoning it in, and gives it his all. He makes for a great hero, and has an impressive emotional scene at the end. I've always been a huge supporter of his, and he's really improved with his acting over the years. Laura Harring is breathtakingly sexy. Her manipulative character was a highlight for me. Tomas Arana is rather bland, but effectively sleazy I suppose. He did an OK job as the villain. Kristopher Van Varenberg pulls these funny angry faces, and doesn't really convince, but he does a really neat spin kick at the beginning of the movie. Shades of his dad! Susan Gibney is pretty good as the wife. I liked her. Final Thoughts: I've seen it many times, because I'm such a huge Van Damme fan. I paid 30$ for it when I first got it (Seriously) That should tell you how big of a fan I am. I regret paying that much for it, but it needed to be a part of my collection. It's a terrible film for the most part. Don't do what I do. See it once if you're a huge Van Damme fan and then forget it even exists. 3.7/10

I have read that Van Damme has since admitted to being embarrassed by Derailed, which I can understand but at the same time I find to be a little sad. True, the movie is something of a disaster, but I wish people would have a bit of an open mind about movies like this. The movie is almost cartoonishly bad, so I really wonder what the tone was in the air when they were making it (surely they had to know that they were making a terrible movie), but I will venture to say that the badness of a movie like this doesn't at all make it unwatchable. On the contrary, I think it makes it more fun, the way a wildly over-the-top movie like Shoot 'Em Up is more fun than something that is just a little too much, like some of Seagal's movies. As they say, for some reason people often forgive extreme excesses more than mild excess. The Grindhouse team certainly understands this.Also, just like it should have been clear to the production team that they were making a classic bad movie, it is also clear from the minute you see the cover box (which has one of those direct-to-video appearances that is so thorough that the DVD case itself has an appearance of hollowness – I almost expected to see a DVD-R in there) what kind of movie this is. But many people, myself included, are such dedicated Van Damme fans that we will watch anything he makes, even if we are fully aware that the movie is a – ahem – train wreck.From the very opening we get an almost home-movie feel, like the kind of weekend video that some kids would make with their friends using their parents video camera and cutting it with something like iMovie. A woman breaks into a highly secured bunker to steal a biological weapon with astonishing capabilities to kill enormous numbers of people, and has so little trouble doing it it's almost funny. She is able to casually beat the crap out of some security guards, maybe because she has some cool yellow sunglasses on. Before long she finds herself being escorted across the border by Jacques Kristoff (Van Damme), an international agent who doesn't know anything about what she's carrying and who's job is so secretive that his own wife and family don't even know the truth about what he does. It's because of this that he soon finds himself suspected by his family of having an affair and soon everyone is against him as he sets out to save the world.The supporting cast of baddies is so bad that it literally is the funniest thing in the entire movie. There is one scene early in the film where a few of the bad guys are filing into one of the train cars full of terrified passengers, and one of them (the black guy) looks almost directly at the camera as he passes it, and the expression on his face is so outlandishly goofy that that moment alone made me think that the whole movie is something of an inside joke, like they watched the dailies and laughed hysterically when they saw things like this (like I did), and said "Yeah, put that in! CLASSIC!!" I have to admit that on a certain level I did enjoy the movie. Yes, it's a bad movie and there is no denying that, but it is still enjoyable on a level that truly bad movies are not. Still, I'm trying to come up with something specific that I enjoyed, and it's not an easy task. The performances are horrendous, the writing is worse, and the special effects and the stunts might be the most famously bad parts of the movie. But in that, I think is where you can still enjoy it. When things are so bad that it is almost fascinating to watch the movie unfold before you, it becomes entertaining to see what other failed experiments they managed to come up with, and in that sense they were pretty creative when making this movie.The motorcycling on top of the train, the people being killed and then coming back later, the super-powerful biological weapon that looks like a couple test tubes full of Chem-light fluid, and the ridiculous villain all come together and make something that is morbidly fun to wonder about. I love how the villain is characterized, by the way. It's not enough that he has taken an entire train hostage and is trying to get his hands on a weapon of mass destruction, they have to really let us know how evil he is, so out of absolutely nowhere, he picks up a passenger's violin and curiously muses that it's a French model from around the 1800s and then smashes it on the table. Biological weapons are one thing, but a man who would casually smash a 200-year-old French violin? Oh, the humanity!!Obviously, there have been a lot of comparisons to Under Siege 2, which also took place on a train, but mostly I think people make this comparison try to really get the point across about how bad this movie it. Yes, it's a bad movie, one of Van Damme's worst, but with the right frame of mind it is still enjoyable on some sad level. But if you can't thoroughly enjoy bad movies, you'll do well to avoid this one!