Clint Eastwood’s retelling of the 2015 Thalys train attack stars the real-life American heroes who took down the gunman, but it’s a gamble that fails in every regard.
For his latest about the soldiers who saved a train full of passengers from a terrorist in 2015, Eastwood is conducting an experiment: the soldiers are playing themselves.
You may remember, a few years ago in 2015, reading a news story about two American soldiers and their buddy who saved a whole train full of people traveling to France from terrorist hijackers. It’s your classic tale of American bravery in the face of grave danger, and so is right up the alley…