1973 John Godey's novel The Taking of Pelham One Two Three has a suspenseful situation safely even bad habits as director Tony Scott can not ruin this latest version of the film. Four gunmen seize a subway train in New York, isolating a car, and threaten to start killing the passengers if a ransom is not paid within the hour. The rescue was a million dollars in the book and also in the solid film in 1974, Joseph Sargent, in which Robert Shaw played the main mercenary kidnappers and Walter Matthau was the snarling traffic cop trying to outsmart him. In 2009, the title has gone digital - The Taking of Pelham 123 - and inflation triggered the selling price to $ 10 million. If Shaw was a threat of steel, John Travolta, opt for manic and blatantly has a blast at the main villain. His opponent, cautiously downplayed by Denzel Washington, has been updated on the status of civil service, but also degraded on suspicion of accepting a bribe. The colors of the dynamics of dialogue between Washington its control, center console and the microphone Travolta biker on the train in neutral.So far, so reasonably good. But the tactics of the brand continue to receive from any director, good. From the start-go, the images are subject to the useless and irritating stutter effects, speeding-up/slowing-down, free camera movement, and the lodging of dirt or light stained glass sheets between the camera and the People who had seen a clear vision. Added to the 1974 film is set for a wrecked police car and rushed to rescue Scott requires multiple approaches, each occasion of police patrols to take flight Lethal Weapon style. The hostages in the first movie were cleverly individualized, a multicultural group portrait of the city at that time, mid-70s, which are in the process of Scott - and fellow perpetrators of Travolta, among them the wonderful actor Luis Guzmán character - just sign up. On the upside, John Turturro, James Gandolfini shine like two guys who (like the actors themselves) are very good at their jobs, respectively, playing a hostage negotiator and his honor, the mayor. The screenplay by Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential, Mystic River) is working wisely, if formulaically, adding new dimensions to the major and offer his own gloss on the current economic crisis.
- Actors: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, John Turturro
- Directors: Tony Scott
- Writers: Brian Helgeland, John Godey
- Producers: Anson Downes, Barry H. Waldman, Don Ferrarone, Jason Blumenthal, John Wildermuth Jr.
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, French
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- DVD Release Date: November 3, 2009
- Run Time: 106 minutes
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