MONEY TRAIN (1995)

MORGAN'S RATING

Wesley and Woody are back! And this time, nothing can stop their adrenaline pumping action adventure. John and Charlie are partners, best friends and foster brothers. Both are transit cops who work undercover on the New York subway. Both are quick-witted and quick-fisted. And both are in love with the same woman. But their sibling rivalry goes over the top when Charlie decides to rob the "money train" -- the heavily guarded revenue train that collects millions of dollars from the subway booths. Now it's up to John to stop his bad-boy brother...or join him for one final, phenomenal trip through the tunnel of fun.

Wesley Snipes (John), Woody Harrelson (Charlie), Jennifer Lopez (Grace Santiago), Robert Blake (Donald Patterson), Chris Cooper (Torch), Joe Grifasi (Riley),  Scott Sowers (Mr. Brown), Skipp Sudduth (Kowalski), Vincent Laresca (Subway Robber), Nelson Vasquez (Subway Robber), Vincent Patrick (Bartender Frank), Aida Turturro (Woman on Platform), Alvaleta Guess (Woman on Platform), Vincent Pastore (Gambler), David Tawil (Gambler), Ron Ryan (Gambler), Gregory McKinney (Guard), Mitch Kolpan (Guard), Jeremy Roberts (Guard), John Norman Thomas (Detective), Oni Faida Lampley (Dispatcher), Jack O'Connell (Dispatcher), Saul Stein (Brown's Enforcer), Manny Siverio (Brown's Enforcer), John Cenatiempo (Brown's Enforcer), Enrico Colantoni (Dooley), Bill Nunn (Crash Train Motorman).

GET ON...OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Joseph Rubin. WRITERS: Doug Richardson and David Loughery. PRODUCERS: Neil Canton and Jon Peters. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Russ Kavanaugh. CO-PRODUCERS: Doug Claybourne and Michael E. Steele. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Tracy Barone, Adam Fields and Frederick S. Pierce. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Mark Mancina and Melissa Etheridge. DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

FACTS

"Wesley and Woody are back and better than ever!" -- Rob Salem, Toronto Star

RELEASE DATE: November 10th, 1995 (USA) BOX OFFICE OPENING: $10.6 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $35.3 million (USA) BUDGET: $68 million (USA) - The prop train used for the Money Train was an actual retired NYC subway train that was destined to be scrapped. After the film was completed, it was donated to the NYC Transit Authority and currently resides in the Coney Island Rapid Transit Yard. - Most of the subway scenes were filmed on a 4000 - foot-long set built to resemble a typucal four-track NYC subway trunk line. It includes three stations, all of which were built as local stops with the platforms on the outside of the outer tracks. Included were I-beams between each track, spaced five feet apart just as they are in New York. The ceiling, however, was much higher than on any actual New York subway line. - In the opening scene where Wesley Snipes hits one of the Money Train cops, there is a Die Hard 2 poster on the wall. Die Hard 2 was also written by Doug Richardson. - The Wall Street station scenes were filmed at the Union Square Station on the IRT Lexington Avenue line. The 33rd Street station is the real one, on the same line. All scenes filmed on the subway set featured retired carbon steel R-30 subway cars, painted red. Scenes filmed on the actual New York subway featured stainless steel R-62 cars.

"It's stupid, but also breezier than the year's other 12-score releases not worth a second look." -- Mike Clark, USA Today

"Money Train keeps slapping itself to stay awake. The material is so exhausted that it props its eyes open with emergency injections of violence and obscenity. If this is not the end of the road for the cop buddy movie, maybe it should be." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

"I went into Money Train hoping for an action flick that wouldn't require much thought. What I got instead was a movie into which no thought had been invested." -- James Berardinelli, Reel Views

"...all you can ask for from an action movie." -- San Francisco Chronical

"If you ever had the inclination to ride the New York City subway, Money Train will change your mind...even if they only charged a token, it would be too much." -- Hal Hinson, Washington Post