Grade: C | Genre: Drama
Summary: ultimately it is disappointing as well as ironic that a thriller, with a train as its setting, ends up being so very pedestrian.

The Taking of Pelham 123, adapted from John Godey's novel and a remake of the original 1974 classic, follows Walter Garber (played by Denzel Washington), a subway dispatcher in New York City, who gets entangled in a hostage crisis. When the train gets hijacked underground by the mysterious villain Ryder (played by John Travolta) and his thugs (which include Luis Guzman), Garber unwittingly finds himself the unwilling liaison to the authorities for the bad guys. Ryder demands a $10 million ransom from the city in one hour or else he will start killing the 18 people he is holding as hostages.