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- 1997
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 57 m
- 1997
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 57 m
Summary A Hostage Negotiator teams up with a Sharpshooter to bring down a dangerous jewel thief.
Directed By: Thomas Carter
Written By: Randy Feldman
- 1997
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 57 m
- 1997
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 57 m
Metro
41
6.0
Summary A Hostage Negotiator teams up with a Sharpshooter to bring down a dangerous jewel thief.
Directed By: Thomas Carter
Written By: Randy Feldman
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
48% Mixed
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30% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
41
22% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
48% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
30% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
The movie works well on its chosen level. The big action scenes are cleverly staged and Eddie Murphy is back on his game again, with a high-energy performance and crisp dialogue.
Ultimately, however, owing to too many derivative elements and an erratic story that runs out of steam about halfway through, Metro is only partially-satisfying. I suppose any viewer's reaction will depend on whether they choose to see this particular glass as half-full or half-empty. Murphy fans and action junkies will probably find enough here to keep them involved and upbeat. Everyone else will likely see this material as disappointingly over-familiar. In the wasteland of early-1997 releases, you could do worse than Metro, but, by year's end, few people are likely to remember the title, let alone the premise.
This emoting doesn't mix well with the comedy and action, of course, and the best that can be said of the film is that it's marginally entertaining, and (for Murphy) reasonably inoffensive. But he's competent enough to make us suspect he might be surprisingly good if he ever did get a real Denzel Washington part. [17 Jan 1997]
It never aspires to be high art—even the title is meaningless—but Metro is too lazily assembled, and too stingy with the jokes, to even live up to its modest ambitions.
It was hard to tell if the resulting groans from the audience were relief or derision. [13 Jan 1997]
Metro is the kind of movie an actor makes when he's either coasting on a reputation or scrambling to recover one. The kind of movie that Murphy doesn't need to make after hitting big again with The Nutty Professor, and the kind we don't need to pay theater prices to see. [17 Jan 1997, p.9]
In Metro, he’s been replaced by a slick, businesslike machine of an actor, playing an uninspired variation on the Axel Foley character he’s done for over a decade now, since starring in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. Only this time he’s not even funny.
User Score
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6.0
40% Positive
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Awards
Acapulco Black Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
