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Breezy, thrilling, and quite funny, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three sees Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw pitted against each other in effortlessly high form.
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The large, well-characterized cast is ably headed by Walter Matthau, whose wonderfully weary sense of irony is perfect. October 3, 2018 | Full Review…
The large, well-characterized cast is ably headed by Walter Matthau, whose wonderfully weary sense of irony is perfect.
John H. Dorr
Taps into viewers' paranoia over a decrepit, vulnerable infrastructure and then provides bitter laughs and a harrowing catharsis. August 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Taps into viewers' paranoia over a decrepit, vulnerable infrastructure and then provides bitter laughs and a harrowing catharsis.
Michael Sragow
What's good about Pelham's example of the form is that the performances are allowed enough leeway so that we care about the people not the plot mechanics. And what could have been formula trash turns out to be fairly classy trash, after all. April 29, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
What's good about Pelham's example of the form is that the performances are allowed enough leeway so that we care about the people not the plot mechanics. And what could have been formula trash turns out to be fairly classy trash, after all.
Roger Ebert
The original version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three was made 35 years ago, yet it retains a quality of cool that will remain long after people have forgotten the current version. June 10, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The original version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three was made 35 years ago, yet it retains a quality of cool that will remain long after people have forgotten the current version.
Bill Goodykoontz
Quote not available. September 24, 2008 | Rating: 4/5
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Nev Pierce
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a good action caper about a subway car heist under the streets of Manhattan. March 4, 2008
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a good action caper about a subway car heist under the streets of Manhattan.
Todd McCarthy
It is in essence a flawless film: you could improve bits and pieces perhaps, but there is nothing in the film that doesn't work. July 22, 2020 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
It is in essence a flawless film: you could improve bits and pieces perhaps, but there is nothing in the film that doesn't work.
Grant Watson
... hasn't the credentials of Dog Day Afternoon or The French Connection but this ingenious crime caper / hostage drama is one of the great New York crime films of the 1970s. March 30, 2017 | Full Review…
... hasn't the credentials of Dog Day Afternoon or The French Connection but this ingenious crime caper / hostage drama is one of the great New York crime films of the 1970s.
Sean Axmaker
This exceptional thriller is filled with colorful characters and crackling dialogue -- and always has one more surprise up its sleeve. July 9, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
This exceptional thriller is filled with colorful characters and crackling dialogue -- and always has one more surprise up its sleeve.
Matt Brunson
A work of substance and an exciting experience. July 2, 2016 | Full Review…
A work of substance and an exciting experience.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
One of the decade's great defenses of New York September 8, 2009 | Full Review…
One of the decade's great defenses of New York
Fernando F. Croce
Smart, tense, and funny, Joseph Sargent's thriller is a product of its times, reflecting New York in the 1970s and part of a cycle of urban paranoia movie, such as French Connection and Dog Day Afternoon. July 3, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Smart, tense, and funny, Joseph Sargent's thriller is a product of its times, reflecting New York in the 1970s and part of a cycle of urban paranoia movie, such as French Connection and Dog Day Afternoon.
Emanuel Levy
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