沃特(丹泽尔•华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰)是一名纽约地铁调度员,负责控制各条线路的调配运营。某日,一群恐怖分子劫持了地铁123号线,匪首雷德(约翰•屈伏塔 John Travolta 饰)为前美国雇佣兵,声言要提供1000万赎金才释放人质。巧的是,该数额正式保险金、商业贷款等提取的上限。地铁123号线在隧道里飞驰,乘警多人毙命,司机被挟持,乘客人人自危。沃特因工作失职被调离,后因雷德点名,才被迫参与谈判,面对贪污的质问,他的坦诚拯救了一名年轻乘客的生命。面对劫匪提出的高额赎金和苛刻条件,纽约市长如坐针毡,正当他准备划破钱款平息事端之时,丧心病狂的劫匪又突然改变了主意。作为高速运输管理局要员,沃特决定用自己替换人质,与劫匪展开了一场惊心动魄的生死搏斗……
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes (1965), a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his...