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SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Absolutely Fantastic

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Its taken 5years to submit this review, because even thinking about the darkest few hours of my life watching this ASS of a film gets me upset and flipping angry. It was a Sunday night in the summer,i decided to sit down with a beer and a hot chilli pizza with next door neighbours cat by my side to feast on what i thought must be a good thriller with a somewhat interesting plot and storyline i was SO WRONG.When the credits came on the screen i spat and coughed my 5th beer over the cat, the cat called TIGGER licked my pizza plate chewing strong chilli almost dying on me. Tigger was my friend, i never saw him again. We both died that night.(SPIT)

I was very shocked that Hugh Grant would appear in a movie like this. Apart from the fact that this movie was terrible, he was certainly out of his depth in this mystery thriller. He has done thrillers before including but not limited to movies such as Extreme Measures (1996) which wasn't a box office success. The Hugh Grant audiences know and love has struck success with movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Nine Months (1995), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), and About a Boy (2002). Night Train to Venice was certainly a departure for Hugh Grant and this stinker of a movie shows that Hugh Grant should stick with what he does best.Night Train to Venice centres on a young journalist named Martin who is travelling to Venice by train (hence the title) to drop off a copy of his book. Along the way he encounters a variety of people including Vera (Tahnee Welch, Cocoon) an actress who is travelling with her daughter, and a man known as The Stranger (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange) who has a mysterious influence over their dreams, and also wipes out Martin's memory. Only Vera and her daughter can help Martin.To describe this movie as a train wreck would be an understatement. It is very boring, lifeless and very uninteresting. I didn't care for how the movie ended as this was amazingly bad. It's no surprise that Hugh Grant stated in a 2002 interview that this is the worst movie he has ever done, and rightfully so.Hugh Grant should stick with romantic comedies as that is definitely what he does best.1/10.

It seems that the Italian Director Carlo U. Quinterio does not have experience in thriller film-making. Thus he delved into his Italian heritage and came up with a 20th century take on Dante's circles of hell....the film includes lust, wrath, violence, fraud an treachery. He should have looked at the film Murder on the Orient Express instead, which apart from the exaggerated speech of Hercules Poirrot is well executed. In Night Train to Venice, there are frequent transitions between reality and nightmares. Hugh Grant and Malcolm McDowell both gave memorable performances, yet they could not make this movie click. There is too much cruelty, too many characters that are not clarified, even the Stranger (McDowell) who seems to be the only constant factor in the plot is not really clear. What a shame. I gave it five points, since somehow I managed to stay with it till the end without falling asleep. So there is a grain here....somebody should take the story and do a re-make of it!

The version I watched was called 'Train To Hell'. In fact it was going to Venice. That sums up this strange soup of a film. What was it about? There were elements of Phantom of the Opera, politics, memory loss, theatre, the supernatural, a romance; all mixed together in an unsatisfying brew. The romance was particularly unbelievable. It clumsily lurched from one scene to another. What was it about? Hugh Grant was on automatic (but then I've always thought him a one trick pony), Tahnee Welch inadequate even in such an unchallenging role and poor Malcolm McDowell couldn't make much out of his role. He just kept trying to look enigmatic and evil, oddly in slow motion most of the time. His character was mysterious to no purpose and had no name except 'The Stranger'! A lot of the film was set on a train and the director kept cutting to exterior shots of the train travelling through the landscape, endlessly breaking up even short scenes for no apparent reason. What was that about? As to the ending, it was the most lame I've seen in years. What was that about? The best part in the film was the good photography, particularly of Venice. There were some gorgeous helicopter shots that made you almost weep at the beauty of the place. In the opening credits of the DVD I saw the last person mentioned was not the director as is most common but the producer. So Toni Hirtreiter, if you want to take the blame so be it. A strange but bad film.