Review of Money Train (1995) by Christopher S — 18 May 2011

Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrison star in Money Train. Which is one of those cliched popcorn flicks with alot of moving parts, That once again shows the chemistry that made "White men can't jump" such an enjoyable surprise. They surely continue that trend. The script is fast-paced and clever and Jennifer Lopez is as beautiful and sexy as always.

Money Train to me, is a true "sleeper hit" and is well worth the effort. It was generally poorly received by film critics. Not only that, but In addition to its bad reviews, the film was heavily criticized for its portrayal of a man robbing a ticket booth by running a rubber tube around the bulletproof partition and dousing the attendant with a flammable liquid, then threatening to set them on fire. This crime was repeated in real life after the film's release, although the police did not think the similar crime was related to the film. Still many people including Bob Dole called for a boycott of the film. MTA Police called for the removal of all "Money Train" Posters from it's stations. Still, Columbia Pictures ignored all threats.

This is one of Wesley Snipes best performances (in my opinion), with great action scenes, an awesome finale. One has to wonder what became of the star of Wesley Snipes. Everyone knows of his Tax problems, but it's ashame considering how popular he was during the decade of the 90's. Back to the film, All the characters are fantastic, and the story is really cool. Woody Harrelson is fantastic as well. Wesley and Woody have fantastic chemistry together, and I was really surprised, by how much I enjoyed the film. Jennifer Lopez is stunningly gorgeous!, and gives a very good performance. I was quite surprised, she also had great chemistry with Snipes. Robert Blake is excellent as the Napoleon complex'd Transit Cop boss, He mixed in some really funny lines into his over the top portrayal. Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, Chris Copper is extremely creepy in his role, and was quite menacing.

The fight scenes are really entertaining, plus one of my favorite scenes is when Snipes and Lopez have a boxing match, it was quite amusing! The Direction is great, Joseph Ruben does a great job here, with excellent camera work, awesome angles, and keeping the film at a very fast pace. Money Train with its great action scenes, an entertaining finale, amazing performances from a great overall cast, is NOT A MUST SEE , but it is worth a check out if its on TV or if you got nothing better to do on your Friday night then its worth a rent ..

Watched on Blu-Ray; May 18th, 2011.