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Movie Reviews of Subway
Movie Review: style, style, and more style
Summary: 5 Stars
I was lucky enough to see this film theatrically when it came out in 1985. It definitely loses it's artistic impact on the small screen, but it's something that constantly keeps your eyes engaged. Almost every promo shot for this film had Christopher Lambert holding that portable light fixture -- in fact the theatre I went to see it at ran an ad along the lines of "Christopher Lambert is a light sabre-toting cat burgler". In actuality, he has it in his hand for about thirty seconds, before he lets it slip as he loses his footing on a catwalk. Shades of the BLADE RUNNER promo sheet of Harrison Ford running across the top of a car. Was that shot even in the film? Still, that image of Lambert (like the rest of the film's visual palette) is pretty cool. Stay away from the cheaper copies -- the quality is worse then a VHS dub. The Bassist (also doing double duty as film composer) is Eric Serra, who recently composed the score for BULLETPROOF MONK. Lots to look at, and some great music to boot. Well worth the purchase.Movie Review: Finally!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is very enigmatic. Unlike Besson's later films, it relies less on atmoshpere and cinematic appeal, and focuses solely on the characters. Despite the fact that this film obviously had a low budget and was fairly primitive in its production values, the power of the acting and the story is more than enough to carry you through.Of course Luc Besson would not make a movie that was not purely based on the theme of love--philanthropic love--and this is no exception. The entire film is a sermon on the values of acceptance and tolerance; however, it avoids taking that subject to the extremes of sexual liberation, et cetera. It puts an emphasis on socio-economic diversity and on personality conflicts.
Although intrinsically '80s and difficult to take seriously with all the cultural change of the past twenty years, the film's message is more necessary today than when it was made.
Movie Review: "The Drummer, he won't tell us his name."
Summary: 5 Stars
Stylish, funny, and a marvel to look at, Luc Besson's SUBWAY finally gets an excellent DVD Transfer with Columbia Tristar's DVD, though featureless, it's worth the buy just to see this movie.The story is about a man named Fred (played by Christopher Lambert in his first role after Greystoke, starting his very not-mainstream carreer) who robs a woman because he doesn't like her safe. Her rich husband's thugs are out to kill him, she's out to get her merchandise back, and the police are after Fred's saviours: small time thieves and nuts who live in the Paris metro system, coming out at Subway stations to say hello to the rest of the world every now and then.
More fun than your average movie.
Movie Review: best romantic film ever
Summary: 5 Stars
i see this film as a (romantic) French version of Mad Max :). Or rather, its antipode. It hits all the spots for me - sparse, funny, sad, inspiring, depressing, quirky, unpredictable... a vignette into things, feelings, experiences that really matter. Creativity. Friendship. Eros! Decency! Integrity! which can be found in the most unexpected of places.
Besson showed the world that he can make a phenomenal movie with little money, a lot of imagination and one of the most beautiful women of all time.
The dubbing was awful. And i guess the film, with its accents and slangs is untranslatable anyway.
Yet - to see a master at work is always a treat.
Movie Review: Avant-Garde and Stylistic
Summary: 5 Stars
This French film was the directorial debut for a then 26-year-old Luc Besson. Christopher Lambert and Isabelle Adjani are a surprise great match. It's both a romantic comedy and social satire over a group of vagabonds who live underground in the Paris metro system. There is more than one story with Adjani and Lambert tying in the characters. It is not clear what the "papers" are that Lambert has stolen from Adjani, which hints that its a ploy on both ends to spend time together.