Excellent, Traumatic and Claustrophobic

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2005)

Before going I was afraid Mr Spielberg would be trapped in the "traumatic family" sequence yet again. This time he only hinted on it and did so excellently.
He rather quickly started discretely building up to things to come and managed to build up a panic-struck, traumatic and at times claustrophobic mood like I have never witnessed in a sci-fi movie.
This is one of really few movies that has made my heart actually beat faster (another one doing that is the excellent Thai scary movie Shutter (But that one is a totally different category...)) - and made me really restless in my seat. Don't get me wrong - "restless in a good way": Like a movie like this is supposed to make you feel! Steven Spielberg is at his best in this movie and really put me on the most thrilling roller-coaster there is... Here comes another loop at Mach 1.5! Hold on! Wheeee!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, Sh...!
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The train sequence is one of the best scenes I've seen in a long time. It is totally unexpected and really something! If you read this far and wonder "what train?" I ain't gonna tell you - go see for yourself, man! Oh, by the way...
Don't - I repeat DON'T turn on any fog horns close to me in the near future! I'm gonna drive straight off the road!