For the first hour of this film all I could think of was how average it was, I even had an average review written in my head for it. However, there are certain scenes, thrills and aspects - e.g. the ending predicament that are actually pretty good and will throw you.Eddie Murphy plays a 'wisecracking' hostage negotiator, although tbh he's very much the 'serious' Eddie Murphy for most of the film. I prefer the fun Beverly Hills Cop guy, but there we go. There is a scene where he's talking about being in a thong and being seen by his mother's friends that is hilarious though. Plot-wise he basically gets on the wrong side of some nutter and his cousin and they conspire to make life hell for him and his English girlfriend. The female lead is a tad weak in this, and I must admit I've never ever heard of her (although I was 7 when this film came out - maybe she was big then) but she looked good - Carmen Ejogo she is.Michael Rapaport is in this as well, as an intelligent sniper who is paired up with Murphy. Now I thought, judging by the cover etc, this was gonna be a buddy cop movie but Rapaport (an actor I like) is underused really. Don't get me wrong he's in the film a fair bit but his character has next to no personality. All I learnt was he's polite, sharp, from the Swat team and is a sniper. That's it. The film could have been done without his character if they wanted to save whatever fee he commanded.Whoever plays Eddie Murphy and Carme Ejogo's dog is good in this though. Stellar, powerhouse performance reminded me of Hanks in The Green Mile or Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.So yeah, mixed bag really - there's hate for post-80s Murphy films sure, but this is one of the better ones. It's a solid watch (on netflix atm) and there's some good action and the bad guy is easy to hate, so there's a lot worse out there. I won't strongly recommend but I'll say it's worth a shot - you know what you're going to get.

Metro is set in San Francisco where Inspector Scott Roper (Eddie Murphy) works as a hostage negotiator, one night while questioning a suspect named Michael Korda (Michael Wincott) one of Roper's closest friends Lieutenant Sam Baffett (Art Evans) is brutally murdered. With a new partner named Kevin McCall (Michael Rapaport) to show the ropes too Roper becomes obsessed with tracking his friends killer down & eventually does so when he arrests Korda after he had robbed a jewellery store. However Korda wants revenge & targets Roper's girlfriend Veronica (Carmen Ejogo) when he breaks out of prison...Directed by Thomas Carter this run of the mill Hollywood action cop comedy thriller is an alright way to spend a couple of hours but isn't anything original or spectacular. The script by co-producer Randy Feldman includes every Hollywood comedy cop thriller clichés you care to think of, there's the whole mismatched partner angle, there's a wise-cracking hot-shot lead cop character who plays by his own rules & seemingly does very little police work, there's the one-liners & comeback's, there's the disgruntled police Captain who gets annoyed a lot, there's a really nasty bad guy who kills someone close to said cop & thereby makes it personal, there's the whole vendetta thing that flows through the film & there's a typical climactic showdown in which the cop kills the bad guy & gets the girl. Yawn. There really isn't anything in Metro that any action fan wouldn't have seen before & I seriously doubt there's anything in Metro that the average person wouldn't have seen before either. At almost two hours in length the film goes on for too long & it's just all so predictable & routine but it is saved by some impressive big budget action set-pieces & a fairly fun performance by Murphy who has turned swearing into an art form.For the majority of the duration of Metro the film is unremarkable although it passes the time harmlessly enough but I will admit there are a few great action sequences in it. In particular there's a terrific part which starts with a jewellery story robbery, a spectacular car chase through San Francisco featuring a runaway tram & ending in some more car stunts & a stand off in a parking garage which lasts for a good fifteen or twenty minutes in total although I did wonder where all the other cops in San Francisco were. There's some more good car stunts & explosions at the end but how is Roper going to explain all the jewels he 'borrowed' to get his girlfriend back being blown to pieces in the truck along with Korda? Also doesn't Korda escape from prison a bit too easily? OK so he makes it into the laundry room but there are still plenty of locked doors & police guards to get past even at that point. There's some violence & plenty of bad language to help pass the time but it all felt like I had seen it many times before.With a supposed budget of about $55,000,000 Metro is well made with solid big budget Hollywood production values. The acting is alright, Murphy does his Beverly Hills Cop (1984) cop with attitude type thing & he comes out with a few amusing one-liners but his character is very thinly written & fleshed out. The only other cast members to stand out are Michael Wincott as Korda the bad guy & he puts in an intense performance & British actress Carmen Ejogo who I thought was terrible.Metro is a throughly routine & predictable comedy cop action thriller the likes of which we have all seen before & usually better, it's not the worst of it's kind & several impressive set-piece action scenes help a lot but it's not up there with the best of it's kind. Average at best but action film fans should still like it.

Eddie Murphy tries to act serious as well as funny as Detective Scott Roper, and he actually carries it off rather well. Wanting revenge for his partner's death, he's led on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with Michael Wincott, who will not let him win easily...The main highlights of Metro are a thrilling car chase sequence and the explosive ending! This is not the best film I have ever seen, but Wincott is immensely good as criminal Korda, displaying an almost never-ending desire to bring Roper down, even if it means double murder....Metro is a fast-paced thrilling (and funny) movie from start to finish containing many startling and cunning plots that may seem a little odd at first but smoothing out to a satisfactory conclusion. I can definitely understand why it was a huge success at the box-office: it is very enjoyable!

Eddie Murphy is not particularly funny in this film. To be honest I rarely do find him funny, though he does have his moments. But as a action film Metro is pretty decent: it has some good action, nasty villains and couple of hot chicks in it.So Murphy plays police negotiator Scott Roper, who gets into a tough situation when a jewel thief decides, that Roper is the sole cause of his ill fortuned heist. I guess you can make the rest from that. Michael Rapaport plays the mandatory new guy in training and Carmen Ejogo is the first off, then on girlfriend. And if you were in doubt Roper isn't the by the book police.The film is pretty clichéd, no denying that, but it does flow with certain easiness and is fun watch from now and then. it's not Murphy's best film, but it ain't his worst either.