With no real villain in sight and with its blue collar down-to-earth approach, this unusually (though just relatively) subdued Tony Scott railway actioner proves to be surprisingly watchable.

This pic's lean clean disaster fodder without much of the usual clichéd stereotyping, thereby providing an uncommon focus on plain technical aspects, avoiding the pitfalls of unbelievable melodramatics, though some trivial rudimentary emotional background on the protagonists is still at hand.

That said, the pic doesn't leave much of a lasting impression, despite its immediate impact.

5 out of 10 dangerous curves