A Scott Joplin/ ragtime accompanied film about a train engineer that gets turned down from enlisting because his profession is too important during a war. I find silent movies difficult and certainly I found this one difficult to watch, even if it was easy enough to follow. It wasn't that it was hard to watch as such, it was hard to enjoy. I found the quality of the acting below par. I know that it is a silent movie so there is a lot missing from it when compared to todays films but some of the acting was almost lethargic. It looked like they couldn't really be bothered with it, as if there wasn't any trick to silent acting that makes it special and something that not everyone can do. I felt so let down because I could have acted in this film without having to really try and that disappoints me when I watch a film.
The film itself flowed easily and was easy to follow but it just didn't have that wow factor that The Artist had or a few other Charlie Chaplin films. It wasn't that I was displeased with Buster Keaton, he was very good but everyone else let him down. There were some comical moments but maybe not enough to help carry the film along.
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