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  'The Taking of Pelham 123': When Two Different World Collide

  

  
  

  This Friday, June 12, "The Taking of Pelham 123", a remake of a 1974 film of the same name, will take over U.S. theaters. Chronicling the hijacking of a subway train, this hostage drama film will present the distinctions between the cleanliness & ...

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  A suspenseful hostage-taking movie

  Along with lending their talents Denzel Washingtion and John Travolta have cinematic chemistry in this movie about subway hostage taking.

  
  

  Tony Scott directs with his usual confidence from the fast moving screenplay by Brian Helgeland and John Godey.

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  Predictably ratcheted up a few notches from the original 1974 film and cloaked in contemporary sociological relevance, "The Taking of Pelham 123" is an efficiently reworked version of a tense, ticking-clock suspense story. More than anything a fas...............

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Premiere: June 12, 2009

Type: Movie

Genres/Tags: Movie-Drama, Movie-New-Online

Plot summary

It starts as a normal day at the subway in New York, but the normality is interrupted by an unexpected hijacking of a subway train (on the number 6 line). The police force is confused by the hijacking because:

• the subway is a closed system; there is no place to take the train to escape, and
• all subway trains have a dead-man's switch which requires a live person at the controls to keep the train running, thus preventing a hijacker from escaping away from the running train.

The police frantically pursue the train on the city streets to deliver the ransom of one million dollars as the police attempts to negotiate and distract their attention. Unknown to the police, the four hijackers led by a mercenary named Ryder and a disgruntled former motorman Walter Longman have disabled the dead-man's switch. Once the hijackers receive their ransom money, they send the train off at top speed toward the terminal station where it would crash and thus kill all the passengers. Previously, the hijackers have left the train and attempted to escape out of the subway tunnels with their ransom money.

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