MAN ON FIRE

GENRE:  Action/ Crime/ Drama
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  A.J. Quinnell, Brian Helgeland

PLOT:  Creasy, an ex-assassin is hired to protect a family, when things go awry and little Pita is kidnapped Creasy seeks vengeance.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Sleepers, Training Day, Taken

SCORE:

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3

GENRE:  Action/ Crime/ Thriller
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzman, John Turturro
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  Brian Helgeland, John Godey

PLOT:  It's a rough day at the office for New York subway train dispatcher, Walter Garber who is faced with hostile men who have overtaken a train.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Man On Fire, Swordfish, Inside Man

SCORE:

TRUE ROMANCE

GENRE:  Crime/ Romance
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

PLOT:  Things can only go south when a young man marries a hooker and steals her pimp's stash of cocaine.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Training Day, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction

SCORE:

UNSTOPPABLE

GENRE:  Action/ Drama/ Thriller
MADE:  2010
CAST:  Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  Mark Bomback

PLOT:  A veteran train engineer and a newbie train conductor get to know each other as they find their first assignment together a seemingly impossible mission, to stop a runaway train at high speed going towards a populated city.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3, The Bone Collector, Air Force One

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