At almost four hours long, a film has to be particularly riveting. One should be wondering where all the time went. The story should fly by unnoticed. This is the exact opposite, instead of being four hours long and feeling two, this feels like you've been there six or eight.
People get on, people get off.
We begin to get bored, they cut to a bit later where one of the passengers is holding the bus hostage and has killed several of the passengers. So the driver leaves his wife and family and the kids refuse to speak. So far, it's interesting. The driver returns and gets a job, but there've been some murders recently and his brother kicks him out of the house. So he decides to move in with the two kids.