watch alien express inspire feeling of awe and shock and pity and and yes and sheer terror . to think that actor who have do good work in the past should come to something like this . the horror and the horror . tell me if any of this sound familiar . a train especially build for a political campaign be on it way to las vega for a big rally for the candidate and a senator from texas ( barry corbin and the only actor with role both alien express and no country for old men in the same decade ) . at a railroad crossing in utah a meteor incinerate a car wait for the train to pas . the train stop . local law enforcement be summon . oh and can it be . the senator have a lovely young lady ( amy locane from cry baby and melrose place ) who just happen to have once be marry to one of the officer answer the 911 call . lou diamond phillips ( stand and deliver and la bamba ) be the ex husband . meanwhile eeeeevil alien have manage to stow away on the train . the train leave . lou get his buddy to pilot a helicopter so that lou can drop onto the move train ( about 70 mile per hour ) so that he can save the day . a the buddy reward and he crash the helicopter into the mountain . which be another example of how poorly write alien express be . the cop hero sidekick must die and we all know that . but he suppose to die near the end of the third act and usually while save several life . once on the train and lou manages to lose his shirt so that he can channel bruce willis in die hard by wear a wife beater t shirt . yeah and lou be 46 year old but he hit the gym . the part he play isn not worth bother with and but he in good shape . the senator be go to have an afternoon delight with miss utah and but alien intercede and both he and the woman young enough to be his granddaughter pay the ultimate price . soon we have bomb threat and multiply alien and and of course the train go out of control and speed toward it date with destiny while lou and todd bridge ( diffrent stroke ) try to save a many life a they can . there be exactly one surprise in the entire movie . early in the story a couple lift wine glass to their thirty fifth anniversary and with hope for thirty five more year together . the dude get bang up and but he and the mrs. both live . maybe the writer just lose track of them . this be the kind of movie that you would love to be a fly on the wall . these actor who have do well work ( and and really and deserve much good than this ) be probably just happy for the work . do they actually think they be work on something worthwhile and or do they cry ( and or or drink ) themselves to sleep at night . at the end of the story the ( fairly numerous and all thing consider ) survivor gather in the last car of the train and which be unhooked . the other car go over a cliff but the one contain the protagonist stop just inch short of the cliff . lou and his ex be reunite . happiness reign . i would have think that the first thing they would do be get off the train so they would have solid ground under their foot and but i digress . someone look out the window and see a shooting star . look and make a wish . then another . then more and more . the earth be be bombard with meteor that will crack open and creepy crawly hand puppet with big teeth will be everywhere . it get to a point that see the word the sci fi channel present on an original movie tell u that we will be glad we have ti vo so that we can fast forward through the next two hour . or and good yet and just go ahead and erase it two minute into the story and spend that time more wisely .