It's a smashing piece of period escapism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2025

When The Great Train Robbery works, it really works.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2024

It’s an old-school caper film with a modern sense of humor. [Filmmaker Michael Crichton] brings a droll humor to the project, which the three leads play with a light touch, but keeps the caper scenes tight and suspenseful.

| May 4, 2024

An agreeable lark.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2023

...it does exactly what you expect it to do, but does it so well, and with such great enthusiasm, that you’re inclined to forgive its obviousness.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 13, 2023

The Great Train Robbery is a fluffy piece of entertainment, highlighted by Geoffrey Unsworth's moody cinematography of Victorian interiors, in all their musty splendor.

| Jan 11, 2021

The Great Train Robbery is not a good adventure film and it's a shame because it could have been. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 6, 2019

The Great Train Robbery is elegant and stately. But it is a slow-moving story, when what we really want from a period thriller is a feeling for the excitement generated during the actual events.

| Feb 7, 2019

The Great Train Robbery does, much like the 1975 source material, tend to get bogged down in the small details regarding the titular heist...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2019

Crichton is after a giggly quality as if it's being told as a pub yarn, soaked in exaggeration and acute trickery to defeat impossible hurdles, while never far from redoubtable moral lesson.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2008

An entertaining thriller that stumbles occasionally on overlong dialogue sequences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2008

Crichton's films drag in dialog bouts, but triumph when action takes over.

| Jul 30, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2008

Lumbers along at a dull pace.

| Original Score: C | Jan 5, 2007

The characters stay largely undeveloped, while -- despite superficially peculiar features -- the robbery is stripped of the ingenious exposition of the novel.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2005

he climactic heist of the gold, with Mr. Connery climbing atop the moving railroad cars, ducking under bridges just before a possible decapitation, is marvelous action footage that manages to be very funny as it takes your breath away.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2005

Imbued with the spirit of the '60s and '70s counterculture.

| Original Score: B- | May 3, 2005

Smooth crime caper flick with Connery .

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2004

Connery is one of the best light comedians in the movies, and has been ever since those long-ago days when he was James Bond.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004