With Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland starring in The First Great Train Robbery I thoght I would be watching a re-enactment of an actual successful robbery worth millions in gold which takes place on a moving train. Instead the film reminded me of a below standard Disney adventure film. The first half was devoted to Sean Connery who plays a guy named Pierce who fools a bunch of rich guys that he is also rich, but in the evening he goes back to his hotel room where he conspires and then sleeps with the lovely Lesley-Anne Down who plays Miriam, an accomplice for Pierce who uses her to obtain one of the four (4) keys required to open the safe's that hold a ton of gold.
As the film progresses Pierce continues to utilize other accomplices such as Donald Sutherland who plays a guy named Agar, capable of stealing your wallet without evee you feeling his hand deep in your pocket. There are other accomplices as well that Pierec brings into his train robbery plan, and this is where the story becomes silly, and lacks any suspense.
I was especially disappointed with the ending and rather than divulge any spoilers suffice to say the films ending was highway robbery.
As the film progresses Pierce continues to utilize other accomplices such as Donald Sutherland who plays a guy named Agar, capable of stealing your wallet without evee you feeling his hand deep in your pocket. There are other accomplices as well that Pierec brings into his train robbery plan, and this is where the story becomes silly, and lacks any suspense.
I was especially disappointed with the ending and rather than divulge any spoilers suffice to say the films ending was highway robbery.