TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Michael_Elliott Money Train (1995) ** (out of 4)Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson are foster brothers who also work as transit cops for NYC. Charlie (Harrelson) decides to rob the transit cash flow to get back at his chief (Robert Blake) sho obviously John (Snipes) must go along to protect him.I still remember walking into MONEY TRAIN when it first opened. The entire theater had a buzz going because they were excited to see the WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP co-stars together again and this time in an action film. As the film started there were a few scattered laughs but by the halfway point people were starting to get restless and by the time the movie was over most people left disappointed.I think it's pretty easy tos ee why WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP still packs a great punch today while MONEY TRAIN has pretty much been forgotten. It's certainly not far to ever compare movies so lets just take a look at MONEY TRAIN on its own. The film was meant to be an action buddy movie but sadly there aren't enough laughs for it to work as a comedy adn the action scenes are rather poorly directed.The film really doesn't have too much going for it other than the performers who are all on board. Both Snipes and Harrelson are in fine form and once again they have a great chemistry. You can tell that they are working their behinds off in every scene but there's just nothing there for them to work with. Blake is great chewing up the scenes and Jennifer Lopez is nice eye candy but the four are pretty much left in a film without much of a screenplay.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Money Train is what happens when someone has a chunk of cash, a nice group of stars but no real story or direction to take their ambition in. Not to say it's a bad movie, on the contrary, it's a huge ton of fun, it's just.. Not much actually happens lol. Stuff happens, but it's more day to day, episodic peeks at the lives of two NYPD cops, and adoptive brothers, played by Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, as opposed to a focused narrative with actual story beats. The titular train doesn't even figure in until the last 20 minutes. But like I said, it's fun. The two leads have snappy, bickering chemistry as any two buddy cops should. Snipes is the responsible, put-together one, and Harrelson the troubled, hangdog gambling addict. The obligatory girl for them to fight over arrives, giving the story some momentum. Here she's played by Jennifer Lopez, who is extremely underrated as an actress and is always welcome as far as I'm concerned. One segment of the movie has them dealing with a sick freak firebug who likes to burn subway ticket clerks alive in their booths, played by Chris Cooper, looking like a scarecrow who shaves with a cheese grater. The main set piece, if it can be called that, involves them evading the monstrous clutches of the NYC transportation system CEO, played by Robert Blake. He gives the best work of the film, a snarling, obnoxious prick, like a psychopathic monopoly man. Seriously I don't know where this guy gets so much energy from, he's an absolute blast to watch. Blake has had a controversial life that cut his film career achingly short (this and Lynch's Lost Highway were his last appearances). Tragic, as he's a true gem on screen. His character oversees the money train, transporting cash from inner city casinos, which Harrelson eventually sets his sights on. It's an odd, meandering movie, which sounds like it might be slow or boring. Never. Although it wanders and looks for a plot, it never fails to entertain us even with the most mundane character interacted or petty scenarios.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU A film with not much depth except of course that of the subway, but the action is interesting in itself, and the number of stunt-men and stunt-women is there to prove it. A bureaucrat is at the head of the New York Transport Police Department (NYTPD for short and cop for even shorter) and for him there is only one thing that counts: the money train that gathers the inflowing money of the subway and takes it to the proper safe somewhere well protected. For him all human beings, his employees, those of the subway system and the passengers who probably are nothing but silent users, at least for him, are pawns on some draughts board, a game that some call checkers. In other words he is a pecuniary financial criminal if not assassin but he has his title and pedigree on his side: he is a gangster in an official authority job: he can have a kid killed if he decides so.The couple of cops that gets extended to a triad shortly after the beginning with a woman are just tense and living on the brink of a nervous breakdown all the time. One is black and cool, but over protective towards the other one he calls his brother and is white. That white man is addicted to cards and he is a great loser and like all losers he is addicted to losing in the name of the absolutely unproved fact that he may win one day. Read my lips and follow my eyes. You can see the social trashcan over there? That's where gamblers always end, except if they cheat and as long as they are not exposed.They have the tendency to always share and yet bitch about everything they share and they love each other so strong that they can break up and yet the black man will run after the white man (who is a psychic boy) within seconds after he knows his white brother is in danger or in jeopardy. And the girl will just do the same at the end and save the day.Out of frustration white boy decides to rob the money train of mister bureaucratic money-obsessed boss and he succeeds of course. But black boy comes running after him to prevent him from stealing the money. They will manage properly; the rest is for you to discover. But there is no surprise, nearly no surprise, well not too many surprises.Enjoy the action even if the film is as light as a leaf in the Fall, as for content. Typical of that easy going President they had in the USA then in 1995. Just forget about your PTSS and enjoy the sunshine on the beach.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

elshikh4 I recall a review about this movie where the critic was so furious saying things like "Where is the train ?", "This is one of the worst train movies!". OK, while he was somehow missing the point, I think he wasn't completely wrong.Actually this climactic sequence looks confused move since the train's heist is nothing but sudden third act's plot, not the whole movie. It isn't even related to what seemed the basic conflict (the subway's burner) which ends strangely earlier. So, with the misleading title you've got to feel disappointed or at least muddled, repining "this is not a train movie" and it is, but you're the last to know ! And yes, some of the bosses are megalomaniac, or psychos anyway, but still making the money train's manager as the story's villain wasn't that right or believable, particularly with his crazy behaviors near the end.Plus that end which wasn't as simple as what this kind of straight action used to present, being for many people as unethical. Yet I have to defend this as originally it's a story about the love between 2, totally different, brothers where one eventually wins love and the other wins well.. money.. dirty money, just to assure the difference between them both as one good cop, and one forever hustler, whom their argument has no end.(Joseph Ruben) is the man who can make attractive visual work yet almost with no attractive scripts. He's a very good director but surely not the best when it comes to feeling anything wrong with the writing he deals with. So not many times he got scripts as smart as his direction.. and that's a tragedy ! Though, it's a fair action with great cast. Definitely this is better than (Wesley Snipes & Woody Harrelson)'s last movie (White Men Can't Jump) which is not up to this one's lovely time, let alone being one of the silliest movies ever! (Harrelson) did it so well as a childish loser. (Snipes) was charismatic and performed some of the most memorable fights. And it's enough enjoyment to watch a young brunet (Jennifer Lopez). All the elements (the cinematography, the editing, and of course the music) was solid maybe more than the main story.Another side of the movie's misfortune is that it came in the year of 1995 where movies by the names of (Die Hard with a Vengeance), (Bad Boys), (Assassins), (Heat), (Se7en), (Braveheart) were produced. Tough I know. Especially with the more successful results from the box office, the critics, or both. But whatever.. I like (Money Train).I think if you forgot about it as a train movie or heist one you'll discover that it's a fun ride with some well-made action, J-lo too, and happy end a la' Hollywood; where everybody wins and the evil guy goes to hell. Simply wouldn't you like to destroy your pity work, hit your lunatic boss on the jaw, get free money AND get away with it ? Don't answer this.. Just re-watch the movie !