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Christopher SmithScenario:
Christopher SmithCamera:
Danny CohenActeurs:
Franka Potente, Sean Harris, Vas Blackwood, Jeremy Sheffield, Ken Campbell, Joe Anderson, Paul Rattray, Kelly Scott, Spencer Hawken, Debora Weston (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Het is een koude winteravond in Londen. Kate (Franka Potente) kan geen taxi meer vinden in West End en duikt de metro in. Licht aangeschoten wacht ze op de laatste metro maar ze dommelt in. Wat later wordt ze wakker en stelt ze vast dat er niemand meer in het station te vinden is. Ze raakt in paniek en probeert het metrostation te verlaten maar kan alleen maar vaststellen dat het hele station afgesloten is. Dan komt er een trein aangereden en Kate stapt, ietwat nerveus gezien ze de enige passagier is, aan boord. Haar opluchting dat ze eindelijk op weg is naar huis slaat om in paniek wanner de wagon tussen twee stations stil komt te staan en het licht uitvalt. Kate staat op het punt een reeks angstaanjagende voorvallen te ondergaan die haar zenuwen en uithoudingsvermogen tot het uiterste op de proef zullen stellen. Is ze alleen? Of misschien toch niet? (Independent Films)
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I don’t understand the aversion towards this film, I think it’s a fairly good, little horror flick. But I have a weak spot for stories set in underground spaces, so it’s possible that it doesn’t work on other people. For me 70%
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A yellow-haired Franka Potente in a yellow floral-patterned dress runs through the tunnels of the London Underground, and instead of the date with George Clooney that she had planned, she’s on a date with a disgustingly deformed human mutant who enjoys raping women on a gynecological chair with a big, sharp machete. Christopher Smith fails to create even a hint of the oppressive atmosphere of the environment created by John Landis in only a few minutes of his An American Werewolf in London; and the first emotions come only with the onset of disgust and brutality. So it’s a similarly sad case as the more recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, in which we at least didn’t have to wait through the first two-thirds of the film for these “rewarding” audience emotions.
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At first nothing happens and the movie’s head is kept above water only thanks to the “story’s" appealing atmosphere, then we comes one really snappy line, but nothing else happens. Then the fount of all evil comes on the scene and... and nothing happens again, then at last some unintentionally funny scenes come along and then, mercifully, it’s the end. The picture isn’t saved by having Franka Potente in it or by having a social lesson at the end ,-) One of those movies that show that even a movie lasting less than ninety minutes can be far too long.
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A pretty average horror film that looked pretty stupid at the beginning, got a bit better later, but at the end it fell into stupidity again. I have to admit that the scene where Franka Potente meets the mutant for the first time, and then when the mutant played doctor... well, that was pretty awesome.
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Metro is a British-German production that plays it safe, covering familiar ground. It is a predictable horror movie the viewer has seen many times before. Moments of suspense are interspersed with moments of relative boredom. Here and there, someone dies horribly, and then it just ends.
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