

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
I can't get it out of my head. I'm gonna die today.
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
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6.4/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $100M
- Box office
- $150.2M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- hostage
- motorcycle crash
- remake
- new york subway
- subway train
- stock market
- subway tunnel
- aftercreditsstinger
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereWestwood, California4 Jun 2009
- TheatricalR11 Jun 2009
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1531 Jul 2009
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Theatrical11 Jun 2009
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+27 Aug 2009
CanadaCA
- Theatrical18A11 Jun 2009
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1316 Jul 2009
AustriaAT
- Theatrical25 Sept 2009
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1829 Jul 2009
BrazilBR
- Theatrical144 Sept 2009
BulgariaBG
- TheatricalC11 Sept 2009
ChileCL
- Theatrical11 Sept 2009
ChinaCN
- Theatrical15 Oct 2009
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 was released on 10 June 2009.
Audience reviews
3- J7/10
JPV852
4/12/2021
Saw this one many years ago, probably when it came out on Blu-ray, and decided to give it another watch at random, and... pretty much lined up with from the first go around. Nothing amazing nor has any great twists, but the performances from Washington and Travolta made the movie worth the time. On the downside, as with many of his later films, Tony Scott's choppy direction was a bit annoying. **3.5/5**
- R7/10
r96sk
11/15/2023
Having seen (and truly loved) <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/unstoppable-2010/" rel="nofollow">Unstoppable</a>'</em>, it's impossible not to see <em>'The Taking of Pelham 123'</em> as a rather pale incarnation of that 2010 flick (which also has Tony Scott as director and Denzel Washington as lead!). How strange that those two came together to make two very similar movies so close together. In the end, h…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
2/22/2025
It’s not really fair comparing this with the much more sophisticated 1974 version of this story as Tony Scott has taken a fairly broad-brush to that template and pretty much re-characterised the whole story. That’s a story about a gang of well organised criminals who plan a daring hijack of a subway train in New York, USA. Their plan is simple enough. They seize one car and then their leader “Ryder” (John Travolta) d…
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