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The Taking of Pelham 123
2009
· Movie
· 106 min
D
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4012
- IMDb #3593
- Rotten Tomatoes #3621
- Metacritic #3131
- Letterboxd #3679
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3746
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3861
- Metacritic Critics #2918
- Metacritic Audience #3371
- Kinopoisk #2397
- AlloCiné #3998
- Trakt #3189
Every rating
51–71
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 51, highest is Kinopoisk on 71.
See the most agreed on films →A armed group of criminals hijacks a New York City subway train and holds the passengers hostage. They demand a large ransom within a strict time limit, threatening to kill one passenger for every minute the payment is late. A dispatcher with no field experience becomes the unlikely point of contact in a tense negotiation.
Details
- Director
- Tony Scott
- Writer
- Brian Helgeland
- Released
- 10 June 2009
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $100.0M
- Box office
- $150.2M
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