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Denzel Washington
John Travolta
Luis Guzmán
Victor Gojcaj
Gbenga Akinnagbe
John Turturro

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A subway dispatcher's day is thrown into chaos when an armed gang holds a subway train hostage and demands a large ransom within the hour before they start killing people.

01/04/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The taking of your money

Completely disappointed in this movie. My six year old could have predicted what would happen. Granted Travolta was great-- a bit too many Mother 'F' ers in the movie. It was a good action piece, but not to the standards of a Travolta/Washington point. both of them should be forced to take a year off acting for this typical predictable, big starred movie. The only reason why I saw the film was mainly due to seeing Washington and Gandolfini due there second movie together....I wonder if Washington even realized that Gandolfini was in Crimson Tide along side him pre-Sopranos.....LOL But I give it one thumbs down and one thumb to the side. REnt the movie, buy the bootleg.

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2.5/4 

12/01/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Review

I'm not sure how to compare this to the original since I haven't seen the original film. But anyway, the movie is about four armed men who have taken over a train cart and now hold the passengers hostage, demanding $10 million in 60 minutes. It plays out like your average thriller, and the only real problems I had with this movie were some angles of the ending that didn't really get resolved. It has enough of a decent story though, and the characters are pretty interesting when you pay attention to their back-stories. Also John Travolta is a tolerable enough villain, a lot more tolerable than another particularly bad role I can name… But overall, it's a passable enough thriller. If it interests you, you can do worse, but I doubt that anyone who enjoyed the original will find this any bett...

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3/4 

07/11/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

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 a good job of filling their characters. Tony Scott delivers another solid action piece.

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3/4 

06/25/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

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 blue lines in the script ,I will say john travolta gives A great performence s he always does but the rest of the cast is less than good and average at best they could have made this alot better but hey it could have been alot worse my take is you should just rent it because it overall is just the taking of you money.

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2/4 

06/24/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

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, but why Travolta does what he does.

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3/4