Tony Scott's remake of THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 is a movie movie, sure to get some nominations at Oscar time.  It's really a fantastic production: appropriate pacing, exciting editing, excellent writing, and two bravura performances from Denzel Washington as the good guy and John Travolta as the bad guy.  It's really fun to compare this production with the original 1974 version, with Walter Matthau as the good guy and Robert Shaw as the bad guy.  What Scott and his team have done is to update the time period to today in all kinds of details: computers, cell phones, $10 million ransom versus the miniscule $1 mil in 1974, and some character qualities most specifically relevant to today's economy.  

Be sure to allow some cool-down time for your heart rate.  You'll need it.