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Review The Taking of Pelham 123 Movie Plot
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Contributed by lucy Written on Sep 25, 2009
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Summary: We can watch the action of Denzel Washington in The Taking of Pelham - it seems that he rested for some time. Since the movie is based on the famous same name novel, it earns lots of expections before it released. Then, how about the effect of it? Quite nice. Let's review some fantastic plot now.
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 has released for several months, however, the plot is worth retrospecting, isn't it? I was first attracted by Denzel Washington on the poster, and then decided to watch the movie without hesitation.
The film is based on the same name novel published in 1973, which was a thriller novel full of serious tone. Why does the film carry the number of 123? It's related with a train and its schedule. Then, what's the location of this train? Let's review The Taking of Pelham 123 plot now.
Four heavily armed men, led by Bernard Ryder, board the New York City subway 6 train left Pelham Bay Park Station at 1:23 p.m. and proceed to take control of it.Meanwhile, MTA dispatcher Walter Garber is assigned to the Rail Control Center, due to an ongoing investigation that he took a bribe to recommend a Japanese car manufacturer for the next subway car contract. The group then uncouple the front car from the rest of the train and hold the passengers in this front car hostage. One of the hijackers, Bashkim, kills an undercover police officer in the course of the action.
Ryder and a former MTA train operator named Ramos settle down in the front of the car, while the other hijackers watch the hostages in the back. They demand $10 million in ransom money to be paid within 60 minutes. For each minute past the deadline, one passenger will be killed. Garber and Ryder exchange conversations through the microphone, while his men set up a wi-fi booster apparatus to enable Ryder to access his laptop in the tunnel to watch the stock market plunge nearly 1,000 points during the next hour.
Unknown to him, one of the male passengers has an active laptop with a webcam, that was casually knocked to the floor, facing the car's interior previously when they took their hostages, which simultaneously reconnects using that same wi¨Cfi link; reestablishing the feed to his girlfriend's desktop with whom he was videochatting; when she returns to her PC, she sees the hostage situation through her webcam and provides the live feed to a local television station. Garber agrees to have the city pay Ryder the $10 million ransom, after the Mayor is intercepted by his staff aboard a train in the Bronx and is transported back to RCC.
NYPD Emergency Service Unit Lt. Camonetti enters RCC, and Garber's boss, who has a rocky relationship with Garber, orders Garber to leave the premises. Camonetti takes over the hostage negotiations, infuriating Ryder, who demands that Garber be put back on the mic and that he will speak only to Garber. When Camonetti refuses, explaining Garber has already left the building, Ryder shoots and kills the train operator, who was Garber's classmate in motor school. Camonetti immediately has Garber brought back on the mic, talking to Ryder, while he sets up a sniper unit in the tunnel where the car is stuck, ordering all officers not to fire upon any hijacker until told to do so.
Camonetti is puzzled as to why Ryder will only talk to Garber, but when he learns about Garber's bribery investigation, he asks Garber in consenting to search his home, which Garber agrees and tells his wife about it. Ryder learns through news reports about Garber's alleged bribe in Japan and forces him to confess by holding the boy with the laptop at gunpoint, saying the reason for taking the money was to pay for his kids college education but that the Japanese company was his first choice anyway. While the police stand down in the tunnel, a rat on the roadbed crawls up an officer's leg, causing him to discharge his sniper rifle, killing Ramos, who was sitting in the motorman's position.
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