Good but this train at the end Baffles Me!

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2012)

I enjoyed this film very much - but -, Why on earth was the train at the end going so fast THROUGH THE STATION? Are they telling me that if they hadn't put on the brakes to avoid running over Hugo that, instead, it would have plunged through the wall AND jumped all the way across the street?? But otherwise, though the story is simple, the film is very engaging visually. The station interiors, Hugo's secret spaces and crawl ways are all revealed slowly enough along with his past to give the film the sense of mystery that works so well here. The toyshop Méliès owns is always lonely and still, a reflection of his now almost shuttered existence. His past is told by way of a museum curator played by 'Boardwalk Empire' star Michael Stuhlbarg.