The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

I've yet to determine whether John Travolta shot The Taking of Pelham 123 or From Paris with Love first, but it's nice to see him progress from a shaved-bald baddie with a fu manchu and a fondness for the f-word to a shaved-bald bad-ass with a full goatee and a fondness for the f-word. Such range he has.
Travolta's Agent Wax (yes, really) is teamed up with American lackey Richard Stevens (played by Dublin's own Jonathan Rhys Meyers) to prevent a terrorist attack in Paris (played by Paris). If the new expletive-laden trailer from Movie City News is any indication, there'll be plenty of wisecracks and crack shots in Pierre Morel and Luc Besson's follow-up to Taken, whose credits alone should've told us as much.
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- William Goss

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Have no fear, Travolta is here... or at least a weird version of Travolta where they've taken away all his hair and glued it onto his face instead! But as weird as he looks bald, it apparently makes him totally awesome! After playing a wacko terrorist in The Taking Of Pelham 123 he now returns to play a wacko agent in From Paris With Love, and while the two characters resemble each other a lot, there's still something about this one that just seems better. It's Travolta as we know him, the bad-guy era Travolta that wisecracks first and shoots later -- and I'm loving it. From Paris With Love could be called a buddy-cop movie, as it also stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a low-ranking intelligence operative working in the U.S. Ambassadors office in France who somehow ends up getting partnered with the high-ranking U.S. agent "Wax »
- Kasper

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Warner Bros Pictures, just a few weeks ago, let go of the Mattel property called Masters of the Universe due to several conflicting viewpoints on how the movie would be approached. The studio parted ways, leaving the toys turned animated show to find another company to pick it up. Columbia Pictures has swooped on in to take the toy property and spread it onto the big screen. Columbia brings the production company Escape Artists into the fold to produce. Escape Artists have a few films within their resume that include The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Knowing.
He-Man originated out of the toy line called the Masters of the Universe out of Mattel in 1981. The story has constantly revolved around the planet Eternia where He-Man would be in constant battle with Skeletor over protecting their world and the Castle Greyskull. The action figures turned into a series of comic books, »
- Melissa Molina

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