Metro (1997 film)
1997 American film directed by Thomas Carter
Metro is a 1997 action-comedy film about a wisecracking hostage negotiator. When his friend and fellow police officer is assassinated by a dangerous jewel thief, he is prepared to do just about anything to bring the killer to justice.
- Directed by Thomas Carter. Written by Randy Feldman.
San Francisco's top police hostage negotiator is about to get more than he ever bargained for.taglines
Inspector Scott Roper edit
- [on watching a foreign film] My eyes still hurt from reading that movie.
- [seeing the old red truck provided by the police department] Aww. C'mon, man! Who am I? Red Foxx? I can't roll in that shit!
Michael Korda edit
- You know, there's a saying in Naples: When you think you're fucking them, they're fucking you.
Dialogue edit
- Kevin: I've got two words for you: seek help.
- Scott: And I've got two words for you: exacta.
- Scott: [trying to open an impound car, talking about his ex-girlfriend] She's going out with some baseball player called Greg Barnett.
- Sam: Damn that boy can hit... and throw... and run...
- Scott: [pissed off at Sam's comments] Damn... why don't you just get some pom poms and start yelling Greg... Greg... Greg. Fuck him!
- Scott: Okay, stop right there. Close your eyes.
- Kevin: Okay.
- Scott: Tell me what you see.
- Kevin: I see a scumbug behind the counter with a sawed-off. Nine-millimeter tucked away in his waistband. There's a female hostage down in front of the cereal rack... with a red polka-dot dress. Another hostage three feet to her right, with blue jeans and a checkered shirt. A male hostage down, green shirt, white pants, in front of the candy rack. There's a female scumbug behind me with a gun tucked away in her shirt... trying to pass herself off as a hostage. And there's a special on toilet paper, 4 for $1.29. That's a lot of toilet paper.
Taglines edit
- San Francisco's top police hostage negotiator is about to get more than he ever bargained for.
- Life is a negotiation.
Cast edit
- Eddie Murphy - Insp. Scott Roper
- Kim Miyori - Detective Kimura
- Art Evans - Lt. Sam Baffett
- James Carpenter - Officer Forbes
- Michael Rapaport - Kevin McCall
- Carmen Ejogo - Veronica "Ronnie" Tate
- Michael Wincott - Michael Korda
- Donal Logue - Earl
External links edit
- Metro quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Metro at Rotten Tomatoes