Subway

Luc Besson's Subway is tedious, but for a long time it held my interest, as I assumed that at some point the plot would dawn on me. It gradually turned out that there is next to no story. At any rate it is so slight and unexciting that I nodded off at the end. I should not have been surprised, for Besson is, after all, notorious for prioritising aesthetics over story.

Christopher Lambert is the small-time crook Fred, who has robbed the safe of the girl (Isabelle Adjani) he loves and her husband. Fred hides in the underground passages of the Métro, where other strange characters also live, among them a flower seller (Richard Bohringer) and a bag-snatcher on roller skates (Jean-Hugues Anglade). The characters are pure cardboard, so the only things that grip are the images and the sound. That is not enough.