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The 15:17 to Paris

2018

Clint Eastwood

Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Judy Greer ...

4.8

6,030

Action. Drama Based on the true story, “The 15:17 to Paris” tells the story of three American soldiers who stopped a terrorist plot on a train bound for Paris. The film is based on the book by Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Jeffrey E. Stern.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"One big scene does not a movie make (...) There are no internal dynamics, complexities, nuances, character revelations, left-field humor or, above all, dramatic conflicts within scenes."	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A dramatic reconstruction as unassuming and effective as the action it depicts (...) [Eastwood's] workmanlike absorption in the task at hand is precisely what makes this movie fascinating as well as moving."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The film keeps telling us that what happened aboard that train was the fulfillment of something, but neither the event nor the three actors re-enacting it seem completely real. They seem like pieces of reality trapped in a movie."	NEU
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"[It] is more awkward than illuminating (...) [It] struggles to mix patriotism, friendship, God, and destiny into something meaningful"	NEG
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Time	"The men –all charmers, with none of the stagy stiffness common to nonactors– bring that moment to life so vividly that its very casualness is a jolt."	POS
United States	Jake Coyle New York Daily News	"The movie, simple and straightforward, derives most of its appeal from its verisimilitude (...) A threadbare script that fails to find much of a story to tell behind the headlines"	NEU
United States	Gary Thompson Philadelphia Inquirer	"They’re easy guys to root for (...) Stone and company also don’t get a lot of help from the dialogue (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Sluggish and slight (...) The filmmaker’s potentially novel, counterintuitive narrative approach to the material proves enervating as opposed to engrossing."	NEG
United Kingdom	Terry Staunton Radio Times	"Ultimately, its greatest shortcoming is that it’s lazy, half-hearted button-pushing, more grimly tedious than gung-ho (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Simon Thompson IGN	"One of the worst, most inexcusably poor movies Clint Eastwood has turned out in his career behind the camera and a possible contender for one of the worst films of the year. The 15:17 to Paris is so bad in so many ways that it’s impossible to recommend and that’s a crying shame."	NEG

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