The Taking of Pelham 123

Tony Scott and John Travolta.... unwatchable screetching excess. I turned this off. The original and the 1998 remake were more than enough. This one is so shitty as to pull a vomiting review out of me.

Unfortunately, the movie isn't a comedy. The movie is filled with howlers and I think it's one of the worst scripts I've seen in quite some time. I don't mind bad writing sometimes, as when I go to what I know is going to be a "B" movie. This thought was really disappointing. And I have major quibbles: 1. There's a hostage situation on a train that has been stopped on the tracks. And yet express trains keep whizzing by. The MTA would have stopped all traffic in both directions on both local and express tracks. 2. At one point, someone announces that all intersections are clear between Brooklyn and Midtown. And yet cars are wrecked, motorcycles go flying, and the ransom is delayed. I could come up with more, but my head hurts remembering.

When you have a really great movie as a pattern to follow how is it even possible to make a bad remake? The only thing that could have improved the original would have been a drastic reduction of foul language but the remake has a drastic increase of it. What utter morons these movie makers are! Good grief! 4.6/10.

This film is an example of how you can have 3 great (ok well 2) great actors, a big budget, New York and still screw up a film. The cast in this film is top-notch but the film is a complete let down as it goes "by the numbers" for the plot. I felt sorry of Denzel washington and James Galdonfini being part of this pile of crap but no doubt they got there big pay check for their troubles. Not to mention the way the director made some of the shots almost like the kinda of "NYPD blue" style of editing where the framerate slows right down, it ruins part of the film and looks way out of place. What really annoyed me about this film is that there was no twist at the end which was the only think that kept me watching. A Complete let down of a film but its all that bad it just requires no thinking at all when watching, which is not the kind of film i like nor should exist as a Thriller which this film tries to be. 3/10

I love Denzel Washington, young, old, plump or fit he always gives his all to a part. So that is why I saw The taking of Pelham 123. I don't remember the original at all, maybe I saw it , maybe I didn't. So I didn't go into this movie with any preconceived expectations. Well besides Denzel and may Gandolfino as the Mayor of New York this was just another okay film by Hollywood. I would like to point out one particular thing that almost made me rate this movie lower- the camera. All of this jumping around causes you to lose perspective on the characters and the plot. It seizure inducing and just doesn't work. Also this is one time that it would have been nice to maybe change a story alittle. I am of course assuming that the original was pretty much like this but they could have updated it alittle for our times. Security in the New York Subway system, I assume, is better than its portrayed in this movie; if not I'm never going to NYC.