Review – Alien Express

A meteor hits a car next to a railroad crossing. When a train stops to check for survivors, aliens from the meteor hop aboard and go to work on the crew. Meanwhile, a terrorist kidnaps a Presidential candidate in one of the train cars. The train, now running out of control because the aliens have eaten the engineer and somehow disabled the dead-man throttle, is set to collide with another train that just happens to be carrying nuclear waste. Poor Lou Diamond Phillips, having jumped onto the train from a helicopter mere seconds before it collided with a mountain … ah, by now I think you get the point. Most of the rest of the movie was screaming and bickering anyway. I don’t know if it would have helped to have had monsters that didn’t look like a cross between a toy T-Rex and a dirty sock, but it probably wouldn’t have hurt. See if desperate