Excellent movie... until the last 15 minutes (spoilers)

I really enjoyed the first hour and 45 minutes of this film. I thought it was superbly acted, with interesting and sharply-drawn characters, and with a plot that, while not completely airtight, was still compelling.

And then it was one unbelievable thing after another.

Let's start with the biggest offender: Dan and Ben going from the hotel to the train station. There were, what, 30-40 men with guns after them? And D & B had to travel half a mile? And evidently EVERY ONE of those shooters, which included Ben's gang, were incapable of hitting the side of a barn. It would have been one thing to have D & B followed and shot at by one or two gunmen and being able to get away. BUT 30-40????

Let's move on to the next issue: The apparent idea that the train is some kind of other dimension that, once boarded by Ben, would become inaccessible to anyone else. So much is made of getting him on the train that I would have expected to see some kind of fortress on wheels, armor-plated, with state-of-the-art armaments. But no... it's just a regular train, and something that could be easily attacked or overtaken by the gang once Ben was aboard. Add to this the fact that the train is just sitting there when all these shootouts are going on around it (was the engineer asleep or just deaf?)

Finally, Ben's "awakening" (for lack of a better word). Dan's confession about the etiology of his injury -- how it was the result of an accident and not combat -- seems to magically change Ben from bad guy to good guy. At least that's how I read it. Ben said at one point that he thought his men were monsters, but there was not nearly enough depth or exposition to have explained why he would go so far as to turn on them and kill them, especially when they had been so loyal to him. No, this just seemed like a screenwriter's whim, nothing more.

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