Metro (1997 film)
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| Directed by | Thomas Carter |
| Produced by | Roger Birnbaum |
| Written by | Randy Feldman |
| Starring | Eddie Murphy Michael Wincott Donal Logue Michael Rapaport Carmen Ejogo Denis Arndt |
| Music by | Steve Porcaro |
| Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
| Editing by | Peter E. Berger John Wright |
| Studio | Caravan Pictures |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 17, 1997 |
| Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $55,000,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $31,987,563 (USA) |
Metro is a 1997 action/suspense comedy film directed by Thomas Carter and starring Eddie Murphy and Michael Wincott. Murphy plays a hostage negotiator in San Francisco. He seeks revenge when his best friend is murdered by an escaped jewel-thief (Wincott).
[edit] Plot
Scott Roper (Eddie Murphy) is the best hostage negotiator in San Francisco. His girlfriend Veronica "Ronnie" Tate (Carmen Ejogo) is a newspaper reporter.
While listening to a horse race on his car stereo, Scott is called downtown where a man named Earl (Donal Logue) is holding 17 hostages in a bank. Scott rescues the hostages by (non-fatally) shooting Earl.
Scott is then assigned a partner – sharpshooter Kevin McCall (Michael Rapaport). That night, Scott takes his friend, Lieutenant Sam Baffert (Art Evans), to see a man named Michael Korda (Michael Wincott).
Scott waits downstairs while Sam is in Korda's apartment. Sam asks Korda about a man who deals in stolen jewellery, because Sam suspects that some of the dealer's jewels came from Korda, who is a professional jewel thief. Sam's visit with Korda ends with Korda violently stabbing Sam to death in an elevator. When Scott hears a woman in the building scream at the sight of Sam's body, Scott rushes to the elevator and witnesses Sam's corpse.
Scott wants revenge on Korda, but Captain Frank Solis (Denis Arndt) refuses to let Scott work the case, so Scott decides to work the case on his own.
Scott and Kevin later are called to a downtown jewellery store where hostages are being held. When Scott sees that Korda is the hostage taker, Korda grabs a hostage and leaves in a truck. Scott and Kevin use Captain Solis's car to chase Korda. Korda wrecks the truck, and boards a trolley car, shoots the operator when he challenges Korda, the trolley accelerates to runaway speed, while Scott and Kevin chase the trolley car. While up close, Scott jumps onto the trolley, leaving Kevin to drive Solis's car.
Scott and Kevin manage to stop the trolley car, and they chase Korda into a parking garage, where Korda tries to run Scott over with a car. Scott and Kevin still manage to apprehend Korda.
During visitation at the jail with his cousin Clarence Teal (Paul Ben-Victor), Korda orders Teal to kill Ronnie as a way to get back at Scott. Teal shows up at Ronnie's apartment and attacks Ronnie. Scott arrives and chases Teal down the fire escape, and Teal is hit and killed by a car. Scott visits Korda in jail and warns him to stay away from Ronnie, showing him an autopsy picture of Teal, which enrages Korda.
Some time later, Korda escapes from the jail. Soon after, he kidnaps Ronnie, luring Scott and McCall into a confrontation at an abandoned shipyard. Korda threatens to kill Ronnie if Scott doesn't follow his instructions. While all of this is going on, McCall is outside with his sniper rifle watching the action. During the sequence Korda is shot at by McCall and Scott thus able to free Ronnie. Korda is then killed in a big explosion following a carcrash set up by Scott.
The movie ends with Scott and Ronnie relaxing on their vacation at a Tahitian beach resort.
[edit] External links
- Metro at the Internet Movie Database
- Metro at Rotten Tomatoes
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