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This was the same guy that directed La Femme Nikita?
Ok. Even though I am doing a review of the DVD, I saw the video version and it was dubbed as well. I am giving the movie an extra star just because DVD quality and subtitles usually add to the overall quality of foreign movies.

I doubt it. This is a stupid movie. Christopher Lambert is trying to be hip but looks lost. Adjani is cute but she is one of those timeless beauties, and 80s fashion never worked for her. Jean Reno is usually cool. Besson did figure out how to use him properly in Nikita and The Professional. In this one he drums. THere are also plots about Subway robbers and whacky whacky homeless people who start their own 80s pop band.

If you want dumb fun, watch Repo Man. Watch Repo Man over and over again. If you want a Luc Besson movie - just pretend that he didn't have a career before La Femme Nikita. It will be much better for you in the long run.

This is a WEIRD film....
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, sociopathic 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!

A PLUNGIN IN THE PARIS SUBWAY SO STRANGE...
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 !

I love this film
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.

Subway
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!! ... Read more