Product Description

Breathtaking actioner reteams "White Men Can't Jump" stars Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as foster brother transit cops who try to pull off a dangerous heist, robbing a runaway subway train carrying New York transit receipts. Filled with incredible stunts, the film also stars Jennifer Lopez, Robert Blake. 110 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo, French Dolby Digital stereo Surround, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo Surround; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; theatrical trailers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33461 in DVD
• Brand: SNIPES/HARRELSON
• Released on: 2003-10-23
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Full Screen, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Dimensions: .30 pounds
• Running time: 103 minutes

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Amazon.com
This attempt to reunite the stars of White Men Can't Jump will most likely be remembered as the movie that allegedly inspired a number of copycat arsons in the New York subway system. In other words, the movie itself is too perfunctory to be remembered for any other reason. Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes share their established chemistry as a pair of stepbrothers who work the subway detail as undercover detectives in the NYPD. Woody's a compulsive gambler with a huge debt problem to contend with, and he's also competing with his brother for the attentions of their new and beautiful partner (Jennifer Lopez), who's been assigned to join their investigation of the subway crimes. They're also supposed to guard the daily money train (so named because it contains each day's worth of subway fares), but Woody gets the bright idea that it might be the solution to his money woes. What follows is standard-issue action fare for the mid-1990s--lots of violence, excessive profanity, and attempts at witty banter between the costars to make it all seem more entertaining than it really is. You'd need to be a serious Harrelson, Snipes, or Lopez fan to add this movie to your collection. For anyone else, one viewing ought to be enough. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Another "Lethal Weapon"-type buddy picture, filled with competitive energy and smart-ass retorts. This one stars Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson and has been polished to a high gloss by director Joseph Ruben (who did such wonders with another cookie-cutter screenplay in "Sleeping with the Enemy"). Ruben spends more time on token character development than this fluff requires, and the movie drags in parts. But when it gets to the action-the sensational robbing of an armored New York City subway train-the audience may feel that it's a token well spent. -Bruce Diones
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