Own the rights?
13 out of 15 people found the following review useful: A chilling suspense story, 27 May 1999 Author: Martin Salt from Derby, England
There was too much hype over this series at the start, but as the series continued there was no advertising at all. However I really quite enjoyed this series. For once it is the common British public trapped in an apocalyptic tale. From start to finish you hang on to every emotion and problem that the survivors suffer. Incredibly moving in parts and quite chilling, this story was certainly worth the £4 Million to make it, Carlton T.V.'s highest ever payment to produce a show. Great story with a number of interesting twists at the end. Definitely worth watching.
4 out of 4 people found the following review useful: Download link, 21 June 2007 Author: superimps from United Kingdom
http://torrentreactor.net/search.php?search=&words=last%2Btrain For anyone interested a link above for a torrent file.took me 14 hours to download the entire series but absolute crystal quality and very enjoyablethis series was not released on DVD so this is a rare opportunity to download the entire series.For help on torrent files please look on a search engine.The scenes in sheffield were amazing and the railway station is still in existence albeit in Manchester !!Feel free to ask advice if you are unable to download
4 out of 4 people found the following review useful: Post apocalypse drama, cliched but great, 21 September 2003 Author: Robski from United Kingdom
At a time when ITV was struggling to make drama that did not revolve around a rose tinted view of the fifties or was based in a medical practise in the Derbyshire hills this post apocalyptic (forgive the corny cliche) drama came as a welcome surprise. With a cast of familiar faces but no real stars this was 6 episodes of excellent well written and characterised drama. The similarity with Survivors is evident. The main character in Survivors searched for her son, in The Last Train the main character searched for her former lover. Still they both got into scrapes to entertain us.Commendable performances from James Hazeldine and Treva Etienne and a truly moving death scene form Amita Dhiri (remember that punch in This Life) but more than this was a taut plot that had twists and turns but was still focussed.I would hope The Last Train would be released on DVD sometime soon, It was great.
4 out of 4 people found the following review useful: A good, post-apocalyptic drama, 10 November 1999 Author: John Nestor
This six-part mini-series does a good job of describing the journey of a group of individuals that survive an apocalyptic event in modern-day Britain. The tone is dark and depressing, and the writer develops the hopelessness of the story quite well, particularly as the main characters come to realize the brutal reality of the situation that they find themselves in. The acting is reasonable, but is generally overshadowed by the story itself.Certainly not an uplifting story, but recommended for fans of this sort of thing.
4 out of 4 people found the following review useful: Still waiting for the video..., 27 August 1999 Author: OurPost from London
I really enjoyed this. That it wasn't an original idea is beside the point. HG Wells, John Wyndham, Fred Hoyle, ...many wrote about the End of the World as it might affect the ordinary bod in the street long before such as 'Deep Impact' and other high-impact extravaganzas were made. & I've never forgotten 'Threads'... As a commuter, I can say that no train journey will ever be quite so boring again. I stumbled on this website by chance and am sending this comment in the hope that enough appreciation might persuade Granada to publish a video,
4 out of 6 people found the following review useful: I'll take the bus instead, 16 October 2002 Author: hugh1971 from London
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Spoilers ahead.As a big fan of the apocalyptic genre best exploited by John Christopher and John Wyndham, I was looking forward to this series. It started off well but it soon became ludicrously unbelievable.The train survivors at first think they have been in suspended animation for about four years, and this was just about plausible, but they later find out they have been in deep freeze for FIFTY years.While this is not necessarily impossible, it is not reflected in the settings. For example, someone manages to start a van that has been in a garage for fifty years and drive it for hundreds of miles. We see wrecked cars littering the roads with pristine paintwork, and houses in good repair - hardly likely after fifty years, most of which was a nuclear winter! Similarly the village pub that the group stay in looks like it could win an Egon Ronay award - it is clean, tidy and well maintained, there is a well stocked bar and the juke box strikes up as if it had never been turned off!Then at the end, the fact that the pursuers are in fact the survivors of 'Ark' is patronisingly drummed into the viewer several times. For a really good apocalyptic mini series, try Stephen King's 'The Stand' or BBC's 'Day of the Triffids' instead.
5 out of 8 people found the following review useful: Good and Bad, 26 January 2005 Author: 1sadbastard from United Kingdom
A good premise is let down by some occasional dodgy writing, but maybe that's to be expected with 6 50 minute episodes to fill. The "diary" of the little girl sounds very cheesy to my ears and some of the characters behaviour (the guy going back to his office, the black guy going to a lock up to get a £400 suit) is downright stupid. Take your bloody ties off for god's sake. Some of the acting is a bit dodgy too, now and again. But it has to be applauded for attempting something this ambitious and is certainly watchable. It just could have been so much better with a little more time and money - but couldn't everything? I've given it 6 out of ten.
1 out of 1 people found the following review useful: Last Train - Worth a watch..., 2 November 2005 Author: James from Bristol, England
Watching this mini series almost 6 years after it was broadcast, didn't take anything away from what was originally intended. At a time when Lost (series 1) and the 4400 (series 2) were airing, this repeat on the SciFi Channel was a very welcome break from middle of the road, big budget American attempts at gripping SciFi.The plot may not be as air-tight as it could be but it still has you hanging on the edge of your seat and these little things just pass by without you noticing.What really impressed was the series' "grittyness" and it doesn't think twice about killing off main characters at the peak of their storyline.I highly recommend this series for anyone - not just SciFi fans. Its age doesn't show at all!!
5 out of 9 people found the following review useful: Disappontingly Silly, 28 June 2002 Author: Theo Robertson from Isle Of Bute, Scotland
This got off to a fairly good start and was willing to overlook the silly plot device of having the heroine putting the passengers into suspended animation . The scenes as the survivors gradually thaw out and search through the devestated landscape of Britain are well done , but as the series progress we have bigger and bigger " How are our heroes going to get out of this " setpieces which come across as just plain sillyI was expecting this to be along the lines of John Christopher`s THE DEATH OF GRASS or John Wyndham`s DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS or Terry Nation`s SURVIVORS . In many way`s THE LAST TRAIN does mirror SURVIVORS but the whole series seems to be a tribute to Terry Nation , especially his setpiece work on DOCTOR WHO and BLAKES 7 which means that THE LAST TRAIN is certainly entertaining but extremely uneven .Still this show is superior to the BBC`s sci-fi blockbuster INVASION EARTH which was broadcast round about the same time
Survival Drama, 31 August 2007 Author: Gilbert_ben from United Kingdom
It is hard to believe that the series of The Last Train may have been seven years ago, but due to the incredible acting of the cast, the series is a piece of fine art that will stay in memory for many years to come. The Plot was deep and involving with an incredible twist at the end, and the character Harriet was bought to motion beautifully by Nicola Walker, and the rest of the cast were amazing. I find it a shame that the series was never continued, and that the moving end of the series left the rest to the imagination without a second series being introduced.Nicola Walker is an incredibly talented actress, and portrays her characters beautifully. Anything starring Nicola, is well worth watching.
Add another review
