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Summary: A PLUNGIN IN THE PARIS SUBWAY SO STRANGE...
Review: THIS STORY RECOUNT ALMOST A TRIVIAL FOLLOW-UP BEHIND A man who love a pretty woman because he has just look she when he has robed his bag and he is forced to keep himself in this famous VAST SUBWAY witch is many more strange than it appear ! VERY GOODS ACTORS ! Good MOVIE good ambience WITH MANYS BEAUTIFULS ACTION THRILLER and many entertainment ! Sure ! ... A good MOVIE ! ONE OF THE FIRST TIME WITCH APPEAR JEAN RENO !
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Summary: I love this film
Review: I love this film.
It is just full of strokes of genius, visually, musically, and rythmically. Like Blues Brothers or Pulp Fiction, it has some magical sense of timing that defies description, but lifts the whole to a new level.
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Summary: Subway
Review: This is definatly a movie on my top 5 list. Beautiful storyline, beautiful characters and a real knock out! Seriously, if you are considering buying this, buy it. It's a real joy!!
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Summary: Cover with punks, buy; cover with models, skip
Review: You're seeing reviews for all releases of SUBWAY, which makes identifying which DVD to buy a bit difficult. The better DVD, with the original French Dolby 2.0 soundtrack, was released by Columbia/TriStar, has a cover showing the leads costumed as punks with Lambert bleached blond, and sports a heftier price tag. Beware the bargain-basement pricing -- the loss of quality with the cheaper disc is equivalent to the difference between Hi-Fi and LP prerecorded VHS tapes. With the higher price you get options. The Columbia/TriStar DVD is presented in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio, anamorphically enhanced widescreen, and also offers the dubbed English soundtrack as well as subtitles in English, French, and Spanish. Trailers and scene selections fill out the features offered. The dubbed English soundtrack isn't so bad, for what it is. The translation doesn't jibe with the English subtitles ("You ruffle me"?), but Lambert, at least, dubbed himself. The dubbing for Jean Reno is a hoot and an unexpected bonus. SUBWAY garnered 13 nominations in the 1986 Cesar Awards, France's answer to the Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and five acting noms. The film took home three awards, including a Best Actor nod for Christophe Lambert. SUBWAY is an early and significant entry in Luc Besson's portfolio, and that of several of its actors, most notably Jean Reno and Isabelle Adjani (who has earned 11 Best Actress awards to date). The film has one of the best openings ever -- sharp, frenetic, and a foreshadowing of RONIN's wondrous car chases. From there the story gets...strange, but that's expected of any sudden entry into a vastly differing society. Helena (Adjani), hair spiked stiff, tells off her gangster-husband and their so-polite dinner companions in one priceless scene, then flees in favor of the more companionable denizens found in the subway. SUBWAY leaves you scratching your head, wondering what's the point, where's the point, and knowing it's just there if you could only see it, lurking at the peripheral vision. Not a bad thing and, sure, not for everyone, but the trip into the Paris Metro is interesting and fun, nonetheless. Composer Eric Serra gets some screen time (Bassist), and watch for director Besson driving the train. Do be do be do.
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Summary: This is a WEIRD film....
Review: I now wonder why I purchased this flick, a definitely shadowy tale about the romance and adventures of a petty criminal who only gets meaner as the film goes on, and the spoiled young wife of a middle aged businessman. There really is no one to root for in this film, not Christopher Lambert, whose Fred is a raunchy-looking, socipathic hothead who loves to pull guns on people the first chance he gets, or any of the other characters, most of them living, (LIVING!) in the bowels of the Paris Metro, (which looks an AWFUL lot like Anysubway, Anywhere!) There's "The Roller", a purse-snatcher on roller skates; a black muscleman who suffers insults to his intelligence begrudgingly; the cold and terse Helena, played by Isabel Adjani, who ALSO seems fond of pulling guns on people; numerous inept cops named after American pop culture icons, ("Batman and Robin", "Tom & Jerry", etc.,) the police chief that seems a WEE bit too fond of coffee and a smarmy flower peddler who looks like he walked right out of a Martin Scorcese movie. NONE of these people could be even remotely called "loveable", their behavior makes that impossible. The criminals are a little TOO vicious, especially for petty ones, and the police are buffoons. Fred manages to get and retain the attention of Helena by extorting her for some papers he had palmed from her personal home safe. She eventually meets him and pretty much gets sucked into the world of the oddballs living in the tunnels, walkways and hidden compartments of the subway. This all leads up to a finale: a concert to be put on by the musically adept among the denizens where tragedy finally strikes after an hour and a half of mischief and police ineptitude. I wouldn't recommend ANY teenager see this movie because of the gawd-awful influence it may exert on them, but for somebody studying criminology, it may be entertaining... There is ONE scene with Adjani and her character's husband at a swanky soireé at an associate's home, where Helena, (Adjani,) smarts off to a fair-thee-well. It's probably the best scene in the film. And the sound production is pretty good too, as it was in its initial VHS version 16 years ago. However, there ain't much ELSE to recommend this odd bird, lemme tell ya!
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Summary: Camerawork is exellent,actors are great,only stupid end.
Review: The movie is FUNNY!(If you like european meaning of funny)The actors? The best ones!(If you know europian best actors).The subject? One punk(Cristofer Lambert) , who dosn,t care about "THE RULES", went to the girls(Isabell Ajanny) party and blow up her husbands safe , just to get her attention.The bodyguards chase him to Paris subway, where he found the real underground world.This is the story!But this movie is about the talants!Perfect camerawork ! Actors on thear highest level !
PS : and this movie is very romantic too .
If you like fun and understand the meaning of the true talant ,you have to see this one!
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Summary: Awful sound, awful dubbing
Review: The 1997 DVD of this film is dubbed and has dreadful sound quality; if you insist on buying this film, get the 2001 release. It has the original version in widescreen, with subtitles. Get the version with blonde-haired Lambert holding a flourescent light on the cover and AVOID the other one... ...or avoid both of them altogether. SUBWAY is interesting only as a relic of the 1980s era, or as an early landmark in the careers of both director Luc Besson and actor Christopher Lambert, or if you're interested in seeing what Jean Reno looks like with hair. The story makes little sense... a safecracker goes underground in the Paris subway system, where he eludes a variety of pursuers, forms a rock band with subway musicians, pines for Isabelle Adjani (who is equally, and inexplicably, drawn to him), and somehow all this is Significant. SUBWAY is heavy on new wave attitude and style, but extremely light on substance.
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Summary: People in Paris subway talking english !?!?!?!?
Review: Subway is one of my favourites movies, so you can imagine my disappointment when I realized that movie is dubbed in english. My advice is not to buy this DVD or buy one that costs 23$. Probably that one has subtitles...
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Summary: This is the One!
Review: 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.
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Summary: Best Movie, Worst DVD
Review: This is probably Besson most popular film and it is hard to understand how the US market got stock with such a poor DVD. No French language sound track available, no subtitle of any kind, the aspect ratio is that of a regular TV format with no wide screen option and the quality of the transfer is so poor that you are much better off taping it on cable. A looser.
Marc
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