The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) is a Tony Scott crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. A subway train is hijacked under New York City, and the only line to the gunmen runs through a dispatcher's headset.

Walter Garber expects a routine shift at the transit control center. Then a voice cuts in — calm, mocking, in charge. A criminal who calls himself Ryder has seized the Pelham 123 train and sets the terms: ten million dollars in one hour, or hostages start dying. Garber is no negotiator and no cop. He is the man who happened to pick up the radio, now bargaining for strangers' lives while the police and city hall scramble above ground.

Denzel Washington and John Travolta carry most of the film over a phone line, voice against voice, and it grips. John Turturro and James Gandolfini round out the cast. A remake of the 1974 original, the movie runs on Scott's restless style: jump cuts, screaming trains, no room to breathe. Stream The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) online on iFILM.