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Dom Robinson reviews

Subway

An underground story where lives intertwine.

Distributed by
Optimum Home Entertainment

Cover Blu-ray:
DVD:

As the tagline to the film suggests, everything that matters takes place underground and we begin by seeing Fred (Christopher Lambert) take cover from some dinner-suited men which were after him in the car chase that opens the story. We learn that he's broken into the safe of Héléna (Isabelle Adjani) and is demanding 10,000 Francs in return for what he stole, and she's playing hardball.

He meets up with The Roller (Jean-Hugues Anglade), who snatches handbags and other items, around 11 times a week according to the police, because it's easy to do so on rollerskates, and the film takes in some other characters who frequent the underground: The Florist (Richard Bohringer), The Drummer (Jean Reno), a black weightlifter called Big Bill (Christian Gomba and the man who wants to track down both Fred and The Roller, Inspector Gesberg (Michel Galabru).

As time goes on in Subway, we see the events of what goes on down there between the characters, and also of Héléna, who stumbles upon the underground network of tunnels whilst still in pursuit of Fred and the papers she wants him to give back. Fred, himself, starts to organise a band made up of all the musicians he comes across.

Subway was the only one of four films that I'm reviewing in a collection of Luc Besson films getting the Blu-ray treatment that I hadn't seen before, but while I was initially gripped by the wonderful '80s electropop soundtrack, as it all progressed, it just didn't seem to have any direction and there was nothing to make you particularly care about any of the characters. A shame as I'm a massive fan of the other three movies, Leon, The Big Blue and Nikita, but this one just fell flat.

The picture is nicely detailed at times in close-ups, but the print has some shimmering that's mostly notable in the black sections of the image, while at other times it just looks like a very hazy print. Not good and not what you'd expect from Blu-ray. The film is presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen frame with Luc Besson's usual style and touch, and I'm watching on a Panasonic 37" Plasma screen via a Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray player.

The sound is in Dolby Digital 2.0 and sounds great for the '80s soundtrack, but it's a shame there's no DTS 5.1 mix to give us split-surround effects, but then again it just tells a story from start to finish without the need for SFX.

The only extra is a Trailer (1:57) in anamorphic 2.35:1, which is disappointing for such a trumpeted release.

The menu mixes in images of the subway to a glittering lights effect, with a small segment of music playing behind it - the only performed by the band at the end. There are English subtitles but the Chaptering is, again for Optimum, appalling with just 12 over the 102-minute running time.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2009.

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