Sharkflei
Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Joanna Mccarty
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
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.
Shawn Watson
When Money Train was first released to poor reviews and low box office in winter of 1995 it caused quite a controversy as a pointless, tasteless, and tacked-on subplot in which a weirdo lights subway cashiers on fire came true in real life. The authorities denounced the film and demanded it be banned in some form. Columbia refused to bow to their demands and bad word of mouth spread. It finally came out here in the UK in May of 1996 (essentially summer, for a Xmas/New Year- themed movie) and was slapped with an utterly ridiculous and unjustifiable 18-rating.Wesley and Woody play brothers (don't ask) John and Charlie, apparently without last names, who are New York transit cops. Their sole duty, it would seem, is to play drunk and entrap would-be muggers on the subway platforms. Charlie is a loser and a gambler and is in debt to scary Mr. Brown (Scott Sowers, in his second train-themed action movie of that year) for $15k. John loans Charlie the money but he is soon pick- pocketed by an old woman on the train (oh, the irony). Meanwhile (kinda) Chris Cooper (looking like Bill Maher) plays Torch, a pyromaniac terrorizing the subways.Don't expect any of these threads to kick in right away. Money Train spends AGES AND AGES AND AGES building up to...not much. Jennifer Lopez shows up as Grace Santiago a character who does...nothing. I'm not kidding, Jennifer Lopez does nothing in this film and serves absolutely zero purpose other than to have Wesley extremely unerotically hump her in a ridiculous, unnecessary, and anatomically-incorrect sex scene.Then, after what seems like a freaking aeon, Woody finally decides to rob the money train, an apparently heavily guarded single car train filled with millions of dollars in daily subway revenue. He does this with great ease, without even breaking a sweat. None of the above plots connect. Nothing seems like part of a chronology or timeline. It's all just random, haphazard drivel.Jennifer Lopez does nothing in this film.Money Train really should have been a heist movie. It should have been 30 minutes of set-up and 70 minutes of action with a runaway train and ever-escalating chaos. Instead the money train is an afterthought with the majority of the movie circling emptiness and dwelling on nothing. Jennifer Lopez does nothing in this film.It cannot even be enjoyed on a no-brainer level as there is barely any action to speak of. The subplot of Torch goes nowhere and is forgotten about as soon as it abruptly ends. Money Train feels like an entire movie of subplots with nothing at its core. If Jennifer Lopez was eliminated from the movie it would have been tighter.Jennifer Lopez does nothing in this film.Where's the excitement? The only highlight in the movie is Robert Blake as the deliriously over-the-top transit boss Donald Patterson. He's the only person having fun in this drek. Mark Mancina, fresh off his breakout success with Speed, churns out a completely generic and forgettable score that never gets the chance to pick up literal speed since the movie goes nowhere. Director Joseph Ruben, the man who wrought no excitement out of misaligned bath towels in Sleeping with the Enemy or a sweary Macauley Culkin in The Good Son apparently rewrote much of Doug Richardson's script, I believe for the worse. There was a lot of potential here, but as I have said several times already this is a train that goes nowhere.Jennifer Lopez does nothing in this film.Is it worth watching? Sure, but there's very, very little to bring you back unless you're a train movie junkie.Jennifer Lopez does nothing in this film.
The_Film_Cricket
I have seen every element of this movie so many times, I could follow it in my sleep. I'm not talking about this particular movie but the 3 dozen or so other action movies that follow its formula to the teeth. 'Money Train' is a gruesome exercise in the worn-out cop buddy movie franchise offering nothing new except the cast which adhere to the formula as if changing them would be a sacrilege.The movie stars Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, paired up after their success in the delightful 'White Men Can't Jump' as stepbrothers who are paired as buddies on the NYPD. The movie begins with a chase through the subway tunnel just to reassure impatient action fans that they will get their fill of gunplay and blow'd ups. The crook they are chasing is killed by cops guarding the money train that collects the day's fares from the various stations.A movie like this has to have it's token characters and believe me their all here. There is the sexy female played by Jennifer Lopez (Rosey Perez was the lifeblood of WMCJ but was either unavailable or just wise enough to stay away). There is the chief played by Robert Blake who, if you were to remove all his four letter words, would have reduced him to merely playing an extra. There has to be the usual group of impatient debt collectors and in this case hang Harrelson out a window unless he plays what he owes from gambling.Then somewhere in this story figures a psychotic (Chris Cooper) who provides the movie with unusually gruesome scenes in which he pours gasoline into subway ticket booths and sets the ticket taker on fire. I really did not need that, nor did the movie But my biggest problem with 'Money Train' is the relentless shouting matches between Snipes and Harrelson, they go off on each other about a half a dozen times in this movie and you wonder if they ever have a moment when they are just talking. I get a lot of time to wonder about things during a movie like 'Money Train' because there isn't anything else to do beside count down to the next cliché.
M MALIK
woody harrelson character was so stupid in this movie he was a white brother of a black guy played by Wesley snipes.all he ever did was wasting life living on brothers money & creates trouble for himself & others.the time Jennifer Lopez made and entrance in the film i was relaxed because the stupid comedy of snipes & woody was pissing me off.the money train is about 2 cops friends/bros they work on a N.Y subway station.Charlie plans to rob the money train which collects millions of revenue from the station.despite the action scenes in train & stunts the film fails to deliver .but this film is a timpass movie & will rob you of your money & times if you by it on DVD.that just happened to me.ill avoid Wesley snipes movie from now on the guy has lost itmy rating is 3/10.worth looking for J.LO
