Die Entführung der U-Bahn Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
13KDie Entführung der U-Bahn Pelham 1 2 3: Directed by Tony Scott. With Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj. 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.
“A surprisingly enjoyable and tense thriller. While it does have a good bit of the kind of silly excess that ruins most summer blockbuster movies anymore, those flaws are overshadowed by the tightly-wound script and a couple of good performances from Denzel Washington and John Travolta. Director Tony Scott seems to have spent a good bit of effort trying to channel the spirit of 1970u0026#39;s American movies, and often this pays dividends as the focus on grittiness over spectacular action sequences ups the suspense. Itu0026#39;s interesting that as the movie approaches the end you can feel the directoru0026#39;s 21st century comic-book instincts straining against the genre heu0026#39;s working in as the story becomes increasingly less believable and more u0026quot;heroic.u0026quot; u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNevertheless I can recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys a suspenseful action movie that doesnu0026#39;t beat you over the head with histrionics from beginning to end. Admittedly Iu0026#39;ve never seen the original, and I can easily imagine those who love it might be substantially less enthusiastic about this remake.”
