Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Money Train is what happens when someone has a chunk of cash, a nice group of stars but no real story or direction to take their ambition in. Not to say it's a bad movie, on the contrary, it's a huge ton of fun, it's just.. Not much actually happens lol. Stuff happens, but it's more day to day, episodic peeks at the lives of two NYPD cops, and adoptive brothers, played by Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, as opposed to a focused narrative with actual story beats. The titular train doesn't even figure in until the last 20 minutes. But like I said, it's fun. The two leads have snappy, bickering chemistry as any two buddy cops should. Snipes is the responsible, put-together one, and Harrelson the troubled, hangdog gambling addict. The obligatory girl for them to fight over arrives, giving the story some momentum. Here she's played by Jennifer Lopez, who is extremely underrated as an actress and is always welcome as far as I'm concerned. One segment of the movie has them dealing with a sick freak firebug who likes to burn subway ticket clerks alive in their booths, played by Chris Cooper, looking like a scarecrow who shaves with a cheese grater. The main set piece, if it can be called that, involves them evading the monstrous clutches of the NYC transportation system CEO, played by Robert Blake. He gives the best work of the film, a snarling, obnoxious prick, like a psychopathic monopoly man. Seriously I don't know where this guy gets so much energy from, he's an absolute blast to watch. Blake has had a controversial life that cut his film career achingly short (this and Lynch's Lost Highway were his last appearances). Tragic, as he's a true gem on screen. His character oversees the money train, transporting cash from inner city casinos, which Harrelson eventually sets his sights on. It's an odd, meandering movie, which sounds like it might be slow or boring. Never. Although it wanders and looks for a plot, it never fails to entertain us even with the most mundane character interacted or petty scenarios.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU A film with not much depth except of course that of the subway, but the action is interesting in itself, and the number of stunt-men and stunt-women is there to prove it. A bureaucrat is at the head of the New York Transport Police Department (NYTPD for short and cop for even shorter) and for him there is only one thing that counts: the money train that gathers the inflowing money of the subway and takes it to the proper safe somewhere well protected. For him all human beings, his employees, those of the subway system and the passengers who probably are nothing but silent users, at least for him, are pawns on some draughts board, a game that some call checkers. In other words he is a pecuniary financial criminal if not assassin but he has his title and pedigree on his side: he is a gangster in an official authority job: he can have a kid killed if he decides so.The couple of cops that gets extended to a triad shortly after the beginning with a woman are just tense and living on the brink of a nervous breakdown all the time. One is black and cool, but over protective towards the other one he calls his brother and is white. That white man is addicted to cards and he is a great loser and like all losers he is addicted to losing in the name of the absolutely unproved fact that he may win one day. Read my lips and follow my eyes. You can see the social trashcan over there? That's where gamblers always end, except if they cheat and as long as they are not exposed.They have the tendency to always share and yet bitch about everything they share and they love each other so strong that they can break up and yet the black man will run after the white man (who is a psychic boy) within seconds after he knows his white brother is in danger or in jeopardy. And the girl will just do the same at the end and save the day.Out of frustration white boy decides to rob the money train of mister bureaucratic money-obsessed boss and he succeeds of course. But black boy comes running after him to prevent him from stealing the money. They will manage properly; the rest is for you to discover. But there is no surprise, nearly no surprise, well not too many surprises.Enjoy the action even if the film is as light as a leaf in the Fall, as for content. Typical of that easy going President they had in the USA then in 1995. Just forget about your PTSS and enjoy the sunshine on the beach.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

The_Film_Cricket I have seen every element of this movie so many times, I could follow it in my sleep. I'm not talking about this particular movie but the 3 dozen or so other action movies that follow its formula to the teeth. 'Money Train' is a gruesome exercise in the worn-out cop buddy movie franchise offering nothing new except the cast which adhere to the formula as if changing them would be a sacrilege.The movie stars Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, paired up after their success in the delightful 'White Men Can't Jump' as stepbrothers who are paired as buddies on the NYPD. The movie begins with a chase through the subway tunnel just to reassure impatient action fans that they will get their fill of gunplay and blow'd ups. The crook they are chasing is killed by cops guarding the money train that collects the day's fares from the various stations.A movie like this has to have it's token characters and believe me their all here. There is the sexy female played by Jennifer Lopez (Rosey Perez was the lifeblood of WMCJ but was either unavailable or just wise enough to stay away). There is the chief played by Robert Blake who, if you were to remove all his four letter words, would have reduced him to merely playing an extra. There has to be the usual group of impatient debt collectors and in this case hang Harrelson out a window unless he plays what he owes from gambling.Then somewhere in this story figures a psychotic (Chris Cooper) who provides the movie with unusually gruesome scenes in which he pours gasoline into subway ticket booths and sets the ticket taker on fire. I really did not need that, nor did the movie But my biggest problem with 'Money Train' is the relentless shouting matches between Snipes and Harrelson, they go off on each other about a half a dozen times in this movie and you wonder if they ever have a moment when they are just talking. I get a lot of time to wonder about things during a movie like 'Money Train' because there isn't anything else to do beside count down to the next cliché.

kb2894 This movie is mediocre at best.. My biggest point here is that it seems like they were trying to "cash in" on the Lethal Weapon format, buddy cop, white guy / black guy, straight shooter, crazy guy.. Plot is paper thin and seems like a total rip off of the success of this format that worked almost 10 years prior. Just a thought.. They also seem to have tried to opt for the same soundtrack feel. It actually took me a minute to realize that it really is Jennifer Lopez in the movie. I recognized her voice immediately but she looks so much different than she does now or in movies that followed this one. AMC has it as part of "the new classics" but I have to disagree. Think there are plenty of other films that would be much better suited for this category. Overall its not unwatchable but, not really sold on watching it again..