Subway (1985)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 104 minuten
Country:
France
Directed by: Luc Besson
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert and Jean Reno
IMDb score:
6,5 (18.150)
Releasedate: 10 April 1985
Subway plot
"A seductive fable"
Fred takes refuge on the Paris metro after being chased by the bad boys of a criminal businessman whose safe he has broken into. While hiding in the hidden spaces and corridors of the subway, he encounters an underground society of eccentric characters and petty criminals. Despite being chased, he finds the time to flirt with Helena, crack a safe, rob a train and start a band.
Actors and actresses
Héléna
Fred
Le Fleuriste
Commissaire Gesbert
Le Roller
Le Batteur
Batman
Le Chef de Station
Le Bassiste
Le Saxophoniste
Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13671 messages
- 11439 votes
Reasonable film about a group of criminals who are hiding in the metro system of Paris. The introduction of the characters and the story is a bit messy and because of this it doesn't really captivate. But the film does look good with excellent camera work and the setting (the underground) also gives the film its own look. Also a nice soundtrack.
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sinterklaas
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- 11839 messages
- 3329 votes
Damn, that's Christopher Lambert. The man behind countless B-movies. Didn't know he could speak French. 
After Le Dernier Combat it was also time to see this old film by Luc Besson.
It already starts like a typical French action movie; a wild chase through the streets of Paris in the 1980s. It seems that a certain Fred has to flee from the police. He soon finds his way out in the nearest subway station. And this underground passage seems to be bigger than many people thought.
He already knows how to move and soon meets other eccentric figures who almost live there. Jean Reno as a silent man who hits everything with his drumsticks. Jean Hugues Anglade plays as a roller-skating bag thief, Helene who seduces him, a florist, a real punk band... It forms a colorful and bizarre fairy tale that does not see daylight due to the setting.
Fred knows how to find himself in this world, while the police and subway security want to pull the net around him. For example, Subway has many ingredients and creations and it even seems to become a musical in the long run.
Besson has created a fine and creative piece of cinema in this, in which the modern dynamics that he applies in his later films are already clearly visible here.
4.0*
That scene
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Lovelyboy
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- 4222 messages
- 3173 votes
Pffff... actually only taken because of the name Besson and upon returning home immediately lowered my expectations after seeing the reviews. But even with that knowledge, Subway managed to surprise me in a negative way. What a bullshit movie.
Fred flees after a raid, and with the pursuers on his heels, into the Parisian metro system, and for a moment, especially because of the nice chase scene in combination with the music, I had the optimistic thought that this could be an underrated action cult film. But no... soon the film gets bogged down in a disjointed whole with two more jobs, forming a band, and very, very many characters that seem to add little. I have not been able to discover any line or logic at all and it is that an absurdist kind of humor emerges a number of times, but otherwise this would have been a very lost evening.
Oh... what a joke, even with the humor it was a crap movie so a complete waste of time. Well, yes, it seems clear to me. But hey, tastes differ...
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