]The film""s claustrophobic, cyclical, bleak mood surrounding he heroic quest of the detective struck a responsive chord after he scandalous Watergate era of the early 1970s.Plot SynopsisIn the memorable opening scene on a warm day in 1945, the Streamliner diesel train - running on a single line of railroad track - ramrods its way across the Southwestern desert...Nobody""s squarin"" nothin"" with McClure, not even the ""Big Boy"".Montana singles out Vettori""s trigger-happy Rico for a warning: "It""s guys like this torpedo of yours that cause all the trouble.Next, in the inoculation room, after destroying two of the three viruses with injection guns, Ethan paused (recalling how Dr.