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Actor: Christopher Lambert, Isabelle AdjaniDVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Original Language); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Subway
Movie Review: This is the One!
Summary: 5 Stars
Lots has been said about the bad quality of the transfer, and which version is which and so on. Here's the story: The one with Christopher Lambert on the cover holding the florescent light is the good one. (apparantly the other one sucks.) This version has the full widescreen treatment, the original french language w/ english subtitles (plus the terrible dubbed version, if you are so inclined). In other words - the way it was meant to be!
The quality is fine. It's not perfect - but quite good. I hear the other one looks like a used VHS tape. Sound and video are both nice.
As for the film itself - I saw this movie originally in the theatres back in the eighties during high school. Young, yes - impressionable, yes - but it introduced me to Luc Besson, who at the time was doing original and engaging work. (La Femme Nikita is still his best.) I have been waiting, since then for a suitable version to come out for purchace. This is it.
I love this movie! A lot of people really overthink this movie. They say things like, "All those people don't really live down in the Metro!" Duh. They say things like, "The plot is stupid, and the characters are fake." or "It's all style and no substance." True, it's not Citizen Kane. But it is a simple, if slightly unbelievable, love story with quirky and engaging characters, a lot of style, originality, and panache.
The chemistry between Fred (Christopher Lambert) and Helena (Isabelle Adjani looking her best ever, and that's saying a lot) as the starcrossed lovers is believable and endearing. The style is always engaging: From the opening chase where Fred cannot really drive his car effectively until he finds the appropriate music, to the final kiss.
This is a romance surrounded by an interesting, if unlikely, subculture setting a criminal and the bored wife of a rich politically connected busisman in an arena where their occupations and pretence are reduced to be only the reason for their introduction. From there, they both fight against the constraints of the real world to let their love bloom.
Just don't think alot. Just let it happen and enjoy it.
Summary of Subway
This dark and highly stylized French import directed by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, The Professional) concerns an enigmatic safecracker played by Christopher Lambert (Highlander) hiding out in the Paris Metro system from a gangster. While living in the underground and eluding both gangsters and Metro police he meets up with a group of colorful and quirky subterranean inhabitants eager to help him and start a rock band. All the while the safecracker blackmails a rich woman (Isabelle Adjani) with whom he is in love. Meant to be a tongue-in-cheek commentary on urban life, the film works better as a light freewheeling entertainment, with well-constructed fast-paced action sequences and a breezy sense of humor about itself. Subway is an intriguing diversion and a chance to see the cutting edge of modern French moviemaking. --Robert Lane
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