Pelham 1-2-3: Ostaggi in metropolitana

Peter Travers

Internet buzz pre-slimed this New York subway-hijack thriller as a douched-up reboot of the 1974 original. Since I revere the first movie, especially the hangdog genius of Walter Matthau as transit cop Zachary Garber, I sympathized. Then I saw The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, and the sucker grabbed me from the minute Denzel Washington, basically in the Matthau role, came on as train dispatcher Walter Garber. That's right: Walter! One hell of a classy name-check, if you ask me.
And that's it for comparisons. [...]

di Peter Travers, articolo completo (3331 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Rolling Stone 11 giugno 2009