A very ordinary movie that is unremarkable in every way. Even the presence of great stars like Denzel and Travolta offer nothing extraordinary. Their talent was caged all throughout the movie by a dry and predictable story. Director Tony Scott bizarrely tries to inject life and action in to the film but those endeavors seem forced and even laughable. A cop caravan races across town to deliver bags of money and periodically we see cabs crashing, motorcycle cops flipping and car crashes for no real reason. It's like they declared this was a big budget movie and we need to see car crashes, damnit! I was actually snickering by the time of the final silly crash. Why didn't this hostage situation deliver any real tension for the viewer?
Review of The Taking of Pelham 123
