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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 [Blu-ray] Blu-ray

R (Restricted) :: Sony Pictures :: Released: 2009-11-03

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3/4 A good ride
A decent summer movie, in which you can sit back and watch the situation play out, even if you can see what's going to happen or where the plot is going. Even though they share little screen time together, Travolta and Washington both do ... (read full)

2/4 The taking of my money..
Well im not to sure what people were thinking when they made this movie but they must not of that to hard because you could see the end of the movie five minutes after it started the only thing you couldnt see was some of the out of the bl... (read full)

3/4 Solid acting in a summer blockbuster
A good summer action flick with two great performances. John Travolta is at his best when he's the bad guy (Pulp Fiction, Swordfish). But the twist isn't what happens to the two leads, I think that's obvious in this sort of genre film, b... (read full)

3/4 Solid Summer Action, Nothing More
A solid movie. I was actually a little surprised. John Travolta (I usually despise his work) was the best he has been in a long long time. Denzel was his standard self, very good. The plot is pretty thin and the concept of the movie is as... (read full)

2/4 Take this Pelham Remake and Throw it Away!!
I would tell you to save the trouble of seeing this film and just rent the original. After all, the original is ecstatically wonderful! However, Denzel Washington is great in this. John Travolta is laughably bad, and between the F words, ... (read full)

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 [Blu-ray] Summary Walter Garber (denzel Washington) Is A New York City Subway Dispatcher Whose Ordinary Day Is Thrown Into Chaos By An Audacious Crime: The Hijacking Of A Subway Train. Ryder (john Travolta), The Criminal Mastermind Behind The Hijacking And Leader Of A Highly-armed Gang Of Four, Threatens To Execute The Train's Passengers Unless A Large Ransom Is Paid Within One Hour. As The Tension Mounts Beneath His Feet, Garber Employs His Vast Knowledge Of The Subway System In A Battle To Outwit Ryder And Save The Hostages. But There's One Riddle Garber Can't Solve: Even If The Thieves Get The Money, How Can They Possibly Escape?

John Godey's 1973 novel The Taking of Pelham One Two Three boasts a suspense situation so surefire that even the directorial bad habits of Tony Scott can't ruin this latest movie version. Four armed men seize a New York City subway train, isolate one car, and threaten to start killing passengers if a ransom isn't paid within the hour. The ransom was a million dollars in the book and also in Joseph Sargent's solid 1974 movie, in which Robert Shaw played the mercenary leading the hostage takers and Walter Matthau was the growling transit cop trying to outsmart him. In 2009, the title has gone digital--The Taking of Pelham 123--and inflation has jumped the asking price to $10 million. Where Shaw's menace was steely, John Travolta opts for manic, and shamelessly has a blast in the master villain role. His adversary, cagily underplayed by Denzel Washington, has been upgraded in civil-service rank but also demoted on suspicion of taking a bribe. This colors the dynamics of the dialogue between Washington at his control-center console and Travolta on the motorman's microphone aboard the stalled train.

So far, so reasonably good. But the director's trademark tactics keep getting between, well, everything. From the get-go, the visuals are subjected to pointless and irritating stutter effects, speeding-up/slowing-down, gratuitous camera movement, and the interposition of dirt- or light-smeared panes of glass between the camera and people we'd appreciate a clear look at. The 1974 movie settled for one police car being wrecked as the ransom is rushed uptown; Scott requires multiple collisions, each the occasion for police cruisers taking Lethal Weapon-style flight. The hostages in the earlier film were wittily individuated, a multicultural group portrait of the city at that mid-'70s moment; the ones on Scott's train--and also Travolta's fellow perpetrators, including that wonderful character actor Luis Guzmán--barely register. On the upside, John Turturro and James Gandolfini shine as 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 (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) strives intelligently, if formulaically, to add new dimensions to the main characters and to offer its own gloss on the current economic meltdown. --Richard T. Jameson

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Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 [Blu-ray] Blu-Ray DVD Techincal Details Cast: Denzel Washington, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, John Turturro
Director: Tony Scott
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Rated: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 106 mins
UPC: 043396292246
Binding: Blu-ray
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2009-11-03
Region Code: 0
Specs: AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen

Language & Subtitles English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Catalan (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed),