"Subway Robbery": a large piece of skin, ironic

Morgan 2021-11-12 08:01:15

Movies with classic robbery themes mostly follow the route of "a fight between the pros and the cons within a limited time", relying on the suffocating tense rhythm created by the film and the intelligent bridge that is both unexpected and reasonable to attract the audience. For the audience, the theme is mostly to punish the evil and promote the good.

But "Metro Robbery" is an atypical robbery movie. Those tense atmospheres and hot scenes are superficial phenomena, which can be attributed to the necessary elements for its commercial blockbuster route. The names of Tony Scott, Denzel Washington and John Travolta attracted US$100 million in investment; the investment of US$100 million resulted in the film being presented to the audience as a blockbuster. , Because no producer is willing to spend 100 million US dollars on Tony; the posture of a commercial blockbuster must include tense plots and hot scenes, so there are almost those "killing chickens with a sledgehammer" crash scene Support the appearance, otherwise it will not be called a blockbuster; the most terrible thing is that Tony Scott has played a small temper this time, and has to satirize the corrupt New York government in this kind of commercial film, if it is not like Tony Scott BUG-level directors come to make this film, and the producers will never agree with the birth of this "new" type of film.

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Extended Reading
  • Kelli 2021-11-12 08:01:15

    Travolta's acting skills are absolutely "first-rate", but... things are really ok...

  • Keegan 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    Denzel Washington does a great job.

The Taking of Pelham 123 quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Ryder: Life is simple now. They just have to do what I say.

  • Ryder: You know we all owe God a debt... and I'm a man who pays his debts. Are you a man who pays his debts?

    Walter Garber: Yeah, yeah, sure... TV, cable, uh and my mortgage. That's a little like dying once a month.

    Ryder: Oh, you're married... you're a married man?

    Walter Garber: Maybe.

    Ryder: Oh, no... you're married, man. Married men have mortgages.