Its Tuesday night and I was supposed to be at school board meeting that was cancelled for lack of Quorum! I quick call to Carol and shazam we are at the movies. We had the whole theater to ourselves, too. We saw "The Taking of Pelham 123" for the second time. The first though was in the 1970s with Walter Mathau playing the Denzel Washington role. John Travolta plays the bad guy and the two banter back and forth in the course of the movie and it is classic. The movie is tense from beginning to end, the pace is good, and it is NEVER dull. The remake brings the story into modern New York with modern problems. Word of caution though John T. uses the F bomb constantly and there are a few violet scenes of people shot. If you can get through these things iy is a swell summer movie. Nobody portrays COOL better than Denzel.
If you want a thriller, take this in. I give it *** stars.
2009 Movie #37
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