Movie - The Taking of Pelham 123

A day before Mrs Sam reaches Malaysia from Korea (Cheong Pyeong), he wanted to watch a movie as a single-lonely guy.

Venue: GSC, Mid Valley
Date: 5th August 2009; Wednesday
Time: 9pm

Originally we wanted to watch G.I Joe cause it was 8.30pm (its earlier) but...
Its was a Wednesday where ticket price is cut to half. RM14 divide 2 [you do the math]
So before reaching mid valley Close to 8pm (we were rushing!)
My head was fill with my nonsense/useless/overly reacted imagination of the situation @ GSC

"Long line (cause it wed ticket cheap and its at nite!), Definately no ticket (since GI Joe was like new), and we are gonna waste our time there...... no movie..."

I kept saying to to God "Let there be movie to enjoy~"

Honestly when we reached the place (we park the car across the road @ jusco side - long walk =.=) i was seriously surprise~

Good news: There was barely no line!
Bad news: GI Joe seat left 2 (very ngam~) but its the front front row =.=

In the end we decided on Pelham 123. Which is @ 9m (while waiting went to MPH and bought a book!)

The Taking of Pelham 123 - Review

This movie is full of action and honestly whe it is rated PG18 i was expecting something more...exposed???
This movie is definately not a love movie. It does not even have love essence. Except for one couple who was snogging each other through the internet =.= other than that ziltch! (which i totally love~)
I would say the reason its rated PG18, is because 1) its Malaysia~ 2) its because of the foul words which they(m'sia) muted the majority of it 3) because of all the shooting people John Travolta did which was cool~ not that i liked seeing people being killed but hey he's the bad guy. If he don't kill someone how is he gonna be one awesome bad guy?
Anyway, this movie has 2 major actors. Denzel Washington and John Travolta. 2 great actors. One on the good side the other on the baddie side. Both were awarded @ Academy Awards more than once!
This movie revolves around just the both of them, so i can't said who is the main actor. Both are the major ones who makes the movie super intense.

Pelham 123 is a named of a train that John/Rydar and his minions raided. Holding 17 hostages and demanding New York city to pay them the ransom of USD 10 million. Communicating with John/Rydar is Denzel/Garber who only Rydar will talk to. There were lots of action packed when the police were transporting the USD10 million from the bank to the train in time.

I always wonder why is John Travolta akways the bad guy but after watching his peformance in Pelham 123, i finally understood. John really was immersed in the character. you can tell. His acting and expression was splendidly expressed and not to mentioned his lines were awesome (i give credit that to the script writers)

Denzel Washington in this movie... i can't really say he's the total 100% good guy after all he did take a bribe but then he invested it all to his daughters. His character, Garber Walter is truly a guy with guts. Being in the train thing for years he really is a person who loves trains XD. But then Garber character really shown out with the help of the bad guy. Honestly, i truly felt Garber won't be exciting without Rydar.

Other roles in the movies are seriously minor ones even without them they can't really influence the intensity and the awesomeness of the movie. But they are still considered important.They are the ones who is in between the good and the bad.... like the mayor who really is a people person and yet the citizens of NY hated him. Garber's boss... the jack*** who neither good nor bad, he really dislike Garber and puts him in a difficult position and yet still have a reason to....

Anyway, overall this movie have been totally great with action packed and cheeky lines and the intensity between the good guys and the bad guys....

fyi, Rydar's personality still even after movie still remains to me a mysterious aura....

i give this movie 8/10 stars