There have been many Die Hard Clones, since that one appeared.. Both low and high budget ones.. Con Air, Sudden Death and to some degree Speed. They all had some kind of variation.. That can't be said about this one, which also is extremely low-budget.
We all know the basic story-line of Die Hard. Bad guys takes people in a building hostage, a policeman with his girlfriend among the hostages happens to be inside.
Hostage Train follows the plot exactly. They are so similar that you almost think they've even used the same screenplay.
While Bruce Willis is both fun and tough, Judge Reinhold aren't exactly that much of a character to pull that off. In fact, when he tries to be fun, he's boring, and the only time he is fun, is when he tries to be a tough action-hero.
The same counts with most other actors appearing in this movie, except for Carol Alt as the Girlfriend and the boss bad guy.
The action scenes really show that this is low budget, with matted in fire etc, and everything expensive happening outside of the frame.
Not even if you have seen Die Hard, I doubt this makes anyone happy, and why choose to see this one, when you as well can pick up Die Hard and see one of the best action-movies ever done.
