a5c7b9f00b Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
In New York, four criminals led by the smart Ryder hijack the subway train Pelham 123, stopping the first car with nineteen hostages in a higher plane in the tunnel in Manhattan. Ryder calls the subway control center and the operator Walter Garber talks to him. The abductor demands ten million dollar and gives one hour to the delivery by the City Hall. The Mayor accepts to pay the ransom while the NYPD negotiator Camonetti assumes the negotiation. However Ryder demands that Garber, who was demoted from an executive position due to the accusation of accepting kickback in the purchase business of Japanese trains, continues to be his liaison with the authorities. Within the tense hour, Ryder empathizes with Garber and asks him to bring the money to the train.
Had high hopes for this film when i saw the trailer but if you have not seen the original, you are in for a treat. The original had a great cast{Matthau and Shaw), great tension and probably one of the best endings in film history. The remake has the first part in Washington and Travolta but clearly lacks the last two parts from the original. Washington is a subway dispatcher while Travolta is head of a armed gang which takes over a train and stops in a tunnel. Suspense and action are clearly lacking and the ending to make Washington into a hero is beyond the stage of laughing. One scene gives Washington seven minutes to get to the tunnel with the money but it feels like an hour before he gets there. Have not seen much of Travolta and Washington in recent years and this film will not do much too enhance their reputation.
The Taking Of Pelham 123 is a decent action thriller with flaws which I'll get into later from director Tony Scott whose admirable in making this movie despite it's problems. He puts his own unique touch to the film which might not be one of his best but overall the movie is okay. Denzel Washington is perfectaverage joe Walter Garber a dispatcher who gets more than he bargains for what starts offa seemingly ordinary day at work turns into something much more. Washington is very believablethe character turning in another solid performance among many continuing to show audiences his talentan actor. If he wasn't in the movie I wouldn't have enjoyed itmuchI did and given the film a lower rating because Washington made it worth watching. Well done. John Travolta is decentRyder a mysterious criminal mastermind but I felt he went over the top at times at least to me. I'm not sure if it was his performance or the eventual twist involving his character's past I just couldn't really take seriously. -Spolier- I mean Ryder was some Wall Street broker or something like that who spent a little time in jail and when he gets out he's all of a sudden this real smart bad ass criminal mastermind willing to kill for money. Travolta still turns in a good performance though none the less and he did have nice chemistry with Washington in their scenes together creating tension that builds between them which kind of made up for either his performance or the lack of believability involving his character's twist. The rest of the cast including John Turturro, Luis Guzman, and James Gandolfini are solidthe supporting characters who aren't given a whole lot to do but they're effective in their small roles. The few action sequences are well executed and there's some suspense that worked in it's favor for the most part. The pacing of the movie however was a little slow making it feel longer than the film really was, and the dialog wasn't the best at times. Many characters (like Guzman's who's role is more of an extended appearance) aren't really developed and the ending was a bit predictable but it was fitting for the film I guess. The twistI mentioned earlier involving Ryder I didn't find very believable but the film is decent for what it was. So if you're in the mood for a good action thriller this might fit the bill but don't expect any classic heist masterpiece. The Taking Of Pelham 123 does have some action, drama, suspense, and good performances by the cast (especially Washington) for the most part who make this film worth the time to watch at least once despite it's flaws.
There's not much wrong with Tony Scott's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, except that there's not much really right about it.
Four armed men—Bashkim (<a href="/name/nm2963873/">Victor Gojcaj</a>), Emri (<a href="/name/nm2963717/">Robert Vataj</a>), Phil Ramos (<a href="/name/nm0350079/">Luis Guzmán</a>), and their leader, Bernard Ryder (<a href="/name/nm0000237/">John Travolta</a>)—hijack the lead car of a subway train in Manhattan. Ryder contacts MTA dispatcher Walter Garber (<a href="/name/nm0000243/">Denzel Washington</a>) in the Rail Control Center (RCC) and demands $10 million in ransom to be delivered in one hour or they will start shooting the 19 hostages, one for each minute the money is late. The Taking of Pelham 123 is based on the 1973 novel The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by American author Morton Freedgood, writing under the pen name of John Godey. The novel was adapted for this movie by American screenwriters Brian Helgeland and David Koepp. An earlier adaptation of the novel, <a href="/title/tt0072251/">The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)</a>, was released in 1974. A TV remake, <a href="/title/tt0140594/">The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)</a>, was released in 1998. Pelham refers to a local Manhattan train that departs from Pelham Bay Park. The "123" refers to the time that it leaves 1:23. The "taking" refers to a hijacking. After Garber delivers the money, the hijackers start up the train, having found a way to circumvent the dead man feature. They get off the train at the Roosevelt spur, a derelict tunnel built under the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The train continues forward, picking up speed until the passengers become alarmed and the authorities at the MTV conclude that no one is driving the train anymore. Fortunately, the train trips a red light and stops. MTV orders all patrol cars to converge at the Roosevelt spur, where they open fire on Bashkim and Emri. Garber follows Ryder, who has hailed a taxi in which he checks his laptop to find that he has successfully shortsold the market and invested in gold, earning a huge profit. Ryder hijacks a truck and follows Ryder's cab to the Manhattan Bridge where Ryder has exited his stalled cab. Garber catches up to him on the pedestrian walkway and confronts him with a gun. Ryder demands that Garber kill him before the police do and gives him 10 seconds to shoot. At the end of the 10 seconds, Ryder reaches for his gun, and Garber shoots him. "You're my goddamn hero," Ryder sayshe sinks to the ground. Later, while on his way home, Garber is stopped by the mayor (<a href="/name/nm0001254/">James Gandolfini</a>) who thanks him, informs him that the city will go to bat for him in the bribery investigation, and offers him a ride home in his car. Garber takes the train instead. In the final scene, he arrives home, a half-gallon of milk in his hand. The first drafts of the script faced the challenge of updating the novel with contemporary technology, including cellphones, GPS, laptops, thermal imaging, and a post-9/11 world in New York City. In December 2007, David Koepp, who adapted the novel for Scott and Washington said: I wrote many drafts to try and put it in the present day and keep all the great execution that was there from the first one. It's thirty years later so you have to take certain things into account. Hopefully we came up with a clever way to move it to the present. Koepp's drafts were meant to be "essentially familiar" to those who read the novel, preserving the "great hero vs. villain thing" of the original. Brian Helgeland, the only one receiving credit for the screenplay, took the script in a different direction, making the remake more like the 1974 film than the novel and,Helgeland put it, making it about "two guys who weren't necessarily all that different from each other." Whereas the novel is told from more than 30 perspectives, keeping readers off balance because it is unknown which characters the writer might suddenly discard, the two films focus on the lead hijacker and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee with whom he communicates by phone. The new version sharpens that focus until it's almost exclusively a duel between disgraced MTA dispatcher Walter Garber and manic gunman Ryder.<br/><br/>In the book and original film, Ryder is "cold-blooded and calculating", but in the 2009 film he is a "loose cannon willing to kill innocents, not out of necessity, but out of spite." Also Ryder, in the original film and book, is portrayeda normal looking businessman, while in the 2009 film he looks like he has adopted prison life, wearing very visible prison related tattoos and very laid back modern style of a biker. In the 1974 film, the main character is named Zachary Garber and is a lieutenant in the Transit Authority police; in the 2009 film, the main character is named Walter Garber and worksa subway train dispatcher. Ryder asks for $10 million dollars instead of the $1 millionin the original film and book and $5 million in the made-for TV movie. Ryder does not use the "Mr. Blue" nicknamethe original film does; it is implied that Ryder is a nickname.
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