Review of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) by Meritcoba — 31 May 2019
This movie propagates a cynical view of humanity that many moviemakers cater to and by doing so feed it. It is what sells to a crowd that has lost their faith in the authorities and whose faith gets further eroded away by movies like these. The police is incompetent, politicians are self-serving, reporters fabricate lies, the judicial system is failing. It is all in there. Man is wolf to man. The only thing they didn't lose faith in is the hero,as they think themselves to be that hero, but it would be the ultimate unraveling of society if even the hero can no longer be trusted(this movie gets close.
I find it annoying that moviemakers like Tony Scott feel that they have to make the bad guy pure evil. He has to make Washington's boss into a bastard. He has to make the police incompetent. He has to make the mayor into a self-serving git. He has to tick all those cliches just to crank out a story.
It just shows poor storytelling if you think that you can't achieve a (good) movie without making a lot of honest well-meaning and hardworking people into buffoons, crooks and morons.
This review of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) was written by Meritcoba on 31 May 2019.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 has generally received positive reviews.
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