Truly Dreadful Film

Just perfect...

Fantastic!

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Yound Indy in East AfricaExcellent film about one of the most forgotten and extraordinary parts of the Great War. Some of the special effects may look fake but otherwise everything's sound; good script, acting, filming, costumes and story.I have only gave it nine instead of ten out of ten because of the few bad special effects moments in the film. Its well worth watching for the entertainment, humour, action and the interesting historical people involved Worthy of an award.

The series heads west to Africa for this next edition in the DVD instalments. Indiana Jones (Sean Patrick Flannery) and his companion Remy (Ronny Coutteure) get a transfer to the African plains, where Indy duly gets both of them lost after taking the wrong train. A stroke of luck sees them team up with Indy's old friend Frederick Selous (Paul Freeman), who helps Indy tackle the Germans in two daring missions...There is a wonderful sense of fun running through this instalment. A returning Paul Freeman, with support from Ronald Fraser and Mac McDonald, brings a good sense of camaraderie to the story that comes off well on screen. Tom Bell, appearing in the second part, brings the right tone of sinisterness and animal cunning to the role of Col. Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, a military genius whom Indy attempts to capture.The African scenery and wild-life are caught well on screen and there are some well-paced action scenes on a railtrack and a hot-air balloon.Enjoyable stuff.

Indy and Remy accidentally board the wrong train on their way to their next assignment. Once they realize their mistake they board another wrong train when trying to make their way back. Now hopelessly lost and facing the firing squad as deserters they encounter a group of old soldiers out in the African desert. For the time being their new mission is to take out a mysterious vanishing train with a massive cannon attached to it.Phantom Train is certainly the fastest moving Young Indy adventure so far and there's never a dull moment in it. The second half is especially good as Indy and Remy kidnap Colonel Lettow-Vorbeck and hoist him away in a hot air balloon. The action scenes in this adventure are, for a change, up to the standard of the movies.Though I am not sure of Paul Freeman as Frederick Selous (the real life inspiration for H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain character). Why they cast the man who so famously played Indy's sleazy rival in Raiders to play a different person is beyond me. How great would it have been for Beloq to challenge Young Indy? His role as Selous here is bigger than the brief appearance he made in Passion for Life.I can only hope that the rest will be this entertaining.

I really love the Young Indiana Jones videos, and this one is one of the best! I never used to watch them when they were a series but its been great to go back and watch them as feature films. George Lucas has just built the shows on such a great foundation with amazing locations, great casting and fun stories which are actually very educational because they are close to the truth. In The Phantom Train of Doom, Sean Patrick Flannery plays Indy probably the best in the series. Paul Freeman who plays Selous is great and well i might be biased but i just loved most things about this video. The only con i have with this movie and the whole series in general in fact is the abrupt endings they all have. but hey, we cant have everything!anyway go out and get The Phantom Train of Doom because its a great Indy adventure and loads of fun to watch.