Last Passenger (2013) poster
2013 · action · thriller · mystery

Last Passenger

Directed by Omid Nooshin1h 36m2013
ElsewhereIMDb5.78kRT86%Metacritic66
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, measured action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the train while an attractive young woman (Tointon) watches over his son. When he wakes, all but a few passengers have alighted and he realises that the train is not stopping to let anyone else off. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Lewis goes to investigate and finds that the train has been taken over by an unstable driver who is hellbent on destroying the vehicle along with all the remaining passengers on board.

Our read · Last Passenger (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a lean runaway-train thriller that wastes little time getting moving.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if confined locomotive tension with a child onboard spikes your anxiety.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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