The Best of NYC FILM
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BEST COMPLETELY FABRICATED ON-SCREEN “NEW YORK”: The Taking of Pelham 123
Unlike the gritty urban hellhole of the 70s original, touristy Angelino Tony Scott’s reboot imagined a Big Apple where the mayor and the terrorists are disgraced iBankers, kids be cold video-chattin’ with their laptops on the subway and cops cause deadly pile-ups just to delay the inevitable, boring conclusion.
