The 15:17 to Paris

— I picked this on Netflix to pass the time but ended up paying some attention to it. It’s a recounting of a 2015 event when three Americans took down an AK47-brandishing man on a train headed to Paris. I was surprised that the film was pretty tight and nicely edited with decent cinematography—definitely a cut above many films capitalizing on a quasi-patriotic moment. It’s take away, that it was the result of God’s plan that the three men found themselves on the train and reacting to the situation as they did, was a little surprising but the action and story was interesting enough. Only afterwards did I realize the three men who were actually part of the event played themselves in the film and only afterwards did I remember that Clint Eastwood directed it, explaining its filmmaking polish. [Netflix Streaming]

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[2018. 94 min. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, and Spencer Stone.]
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-1517-to-paris-2018