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Some of you might be too young to remember the hit movie “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” (1974). It’s a movie about a deranged man and his cohorts who hijack a NY subway train and demands a ransom for the passengers.

The twist in the movie is how they plan to get away with the loot. If you love thrill-a-minute movies with exciting plot twists – this is the movie for you. In this remake, Denzel Washington plays Lt. Zachary Garber, the grizzled NYC transit cop who matches wits with the lunatic and tries to guess his next move.

John Travolta plays the lunatic who hijacks the train and thinks he’s smarter than Garber. What I love about John Travolta is that every movie he appears in his sister Ann gets a supporting role. In this movie she plays a television news reporter.

Who can forget the classic ending when one of the hijackers thinks he’s gotten away with the perfect crime and all the loot? 🙂

I can’t wait to see this movie! The Taking of Pelham 123 hits theaters in June 2009.