Folks...you have to excuse me, but this review is gonna be biased. Heck, what else you expect when you have a movie with Trovolta playing the bad guy. Add to it Denzel Washington...and the movie becomes a scorcher no matter how deadpan is the storyline. These are two iconic stars of our generation who make screen come alive with their mere presence.
It's not an action movie, so don't go expecting huge explosions and flying daggers and bullets. Rather, for a good part, the movie is merely a conversation between our two leading men, Garber (Denzel Washington) and Ryder (John Trovolta). But just listen to it and it's trillion tons more enjoyable than exploding screens. Garber, a regular railway employee who directs subway trains, is caught in an awkward situation to talk to Ryder who has taken hostage a subway train with passengers in it. Ryder wants $10 million only to reveal later that the stakes are much high than that amount.
Garber becomes the chief negotiator and has to also hand over money to Ryder in the train, and also drive the train to take Ryder to safety. However, Garber decides to play supercop and chases down Ryder and ends up face to face in a do-or-die situation.
The plot has some serious loopholes and the direction too is not enigmatic. Tony Scott is definitely not the greatest director ever. However, the mere presence of Trovolta and Washnigton lifts the movie several notches higher than the regular crap Hollywood spews these days.
Watch it and enjoy you two hours.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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