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Money Train
Starring: Wesley Snipes,
Woody Harrelson & Jennifer Lopez
This money centers
around the NY subway. It is rather fictitious and many scenes were
filmed in a subway set built in LA. It is about Transit Police
officers who wind up stealing cash from the Revenue Collection Train,
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The Taking of the Pelham 1,2,3
Starring: Walter Matthau
Fantastic movie of
a hijacking of a NY Subway train. Walter Matthau is a detective from
the Transit Police who negotiates with the hijackers. The plot
revolves around the subway, and was actually shot on location. This
is a great thriller.
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The French Connection
Starring: Gene Hackman
This Police Drama
show NY Detectives tracking down heroine shipment coming in from
France. There are several subway scenes. The most dramatic involves a
chase under the West End El in Brooklyn. |
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Speed
Starring: Keanu Reeves &
Sandra Bullock
Not a very
believable film, but one that would make you nervous to ride mass
transit. Most of the plot resides on a City Bus that can't go below 50
MPH. The movie ends with an unbelievable LA Metro scene with the
subway train flying out into the middle of a street. But it is a fun
movie. |
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The Tube
Starring: Sokhumi Kim
This Korean film is
a mixture of Speed & The Taking of the Pelham 123. It is dubbed
into English. It involves the hijacking of a Seoul Subway train. Fast
paced. The extras on the DVD show how they filmed the subway
sequences.
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Collateral
Starring: Tom Cruise &
Jaime Foxx
This is an intense
film involving a murder who uses a taxi cab driver to go from murder
to murder. It ends up on the LA Metro, then onto the LA Blue Light
rail Line. Good movie. |
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Volcano
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones &
Anne Heche
Won't win any
Oscars, but this movie has a volcano that erupts in LA. Lava gets into
the LA Metro system. |
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While You Were Sleeping
Starring: Sandra Bullock &
Bill Pullman
Fun movie that
starts with a CTA token clerk saving a passenger from getting killed
on the Chicago 'L'. It is hysterically funny at times. Much better
than Ms. Bullock other subway movie, Speed. |
