Metro (1997)

Metro: Directed by Thomas Carter. With Eddie Murphy, Kim Miyori, Art Evans, James Carpenter. A Hostage Negotiator teams up with a Sharpshooter to bring down a dangerous jewel thief.

“For the first hour of this film all I could think of was how average it was, I even had an average review written in my head for it. However, there are certain scenes, thrills and aspects – e.g. the ending predicament that are actually pretty good and will throw you.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEddie Murphy plays a u0026#39;wisecrackingu0026#39; hostage negotiator, although tbh heu0026#39;s very much the u0026#39;seriousu0026#39; Eddie Murphy for most of the film. I prefer the fun Beverly Hills Cop guy, but there we go. There is a scene where heu0026#39;s talking about being in a thong and being seen by his motheru0026#39;s friends that is hilarious though. Plot-wise he basically gets on the wrong side of some nutter and his cousin and they conspire to make life hell for him and his English girlfriend. The female lead is a tad weak in this, and I must admit Iu0026#39;ve never ever heard of her (although I was 7 when this film came out – maybe she was big then) but she looked good – Carmen Ejogo she is.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMichael Rapaport is in this as well, as an intelligent sniper who is paired up with Murphy. Now I thought, judging by the cover etc, this was gonna be a buddy cop movie but Rapaport (an actor I like) is underused really. Donu0026#39;t get me wrong heu0026#39;s in the film a fair bit but his character has next to no personality. All I learnt was heu0026#39;s polite, sharp, from the Swat team and is a sniper. Thatu0026#39;s it. The film could have been done without his character if they wanted to save whatever fee he commanded.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhoever plays Eddie Murphy and Carme Ejogou0026#39;s dog is good in this though. Stellar, powerhouse performance reminded me of Hanks in The Green Mile or Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo yeah, mixed bag really – thereu0026#39;s hate for post-80s Murphy films sure, but this is one of the better ones. Itu0026#39;s a solid watch (on netflix atm) and thereu0026#39;s some good action and the bad guy is easy to hate, so thereu0026#39;s a lot worse out there. I wonu0026#39;t strongly recommend but Iu0026#39;ll say itu0026#39;s worth a shot – you know what youu0026#39;re going to get.”