Metro is a 1997 action film directed by Thomas Carter and starring Eddie Murphy and Michael Wincott. Murphy plays a hostage negotiator in San Francisco. He seeks revenge when his best friend is murdered by an escaped jewel-thief (Wincott).
Plot
Scott Roper (Eddie Murphy) is the best hostage negotiator in San Francisco. His girlfriend Veronica "Ronnie" Tate (Carmen Ejogo) is a newspaper reporter. Scott and Veronica have a dog named Troy.
While listening to a horse race on his car stereo, Scott is called downtown where a man named Earl (Donal Logue) is holding 17 hostages in a bank. Scott rescues the hostages by shooting Earl.
Scott is then assigned a partner -- sharpshooter Kevin McCall (Michael Rapaport). That night, Scott takes his friend, Lieutenant Sam Baffert (Art Evans), to see a man named Michael Korda (Michael Wincott).
Scott waits downstairs while Sam is in Korda's apartment. Sam asks Korda about a man who deals in stolen jewelry, because Sam suspects that some of the dealer's jewels came from Korda, who is a professional jewel thief. Sam's visit with Korda ends with Korda killing Sam. When Scott hears a woman in the building scream at the sight of Sam's body, Scott runs inside the building and sees the body.
Scott wants revenge on Korda, but Captain Frank Solis (Denis Arndt) refuses to let Scott work the case, so Scott decides to work the case on his own.
Scott and Kevin go to a horse race track, where they win a bundle of money, then they are called to a downtown jewelry store where hostages are being held.
When Scott sees that Korda is the hostage taker, Korda grabs a hostage and leaves in a truck. Scott and Kevin use Captain Solis's car to chase Korda. Korda wrecks the truck, and leaves the hostage behind when he gets out of the truck.
Korda then boards a trolley car, and Scott and Kevin start chasing the trolley car. While up close, Scott jumps onto the trolley car, leaving Kevin to drive Solis's car.
Scott and Kevin manage to stop the trolley car, and they chase Korda into a parking garage, where Korda tries to hit Scott with a car. Scott and Kevin still manage to grab Korda.
During visitation at the jail with his cousin Clarence Teal (Paul Ben-Victor), Korda orders Teal to kill Ronnie as a way to get back at Scott. Teal shows up at Ronnie's apartment that night and attacks Ronnie. Scott shows up and chases Teal down the fire escape, and Teal is hit and killed by a car.
The next morning, Korda escapes from the jail, and soon after escaping, Korda kidnaps Ronnie, luring Scott and McCall into a confrontation at an abandoned shipyard. Korda threatens to kill Ronnie himself via what is hinted as decapitation if Scott doesn't follow his instructions. While all of this is going on, McCall is outside with a sharpshooter watching the action. Korda orders Scott to hold onto the button which operates the machine Ronnie is pinned to. As Korda walks away he comes back in his vehicle, prepared to run Scott over. However, McCall shoots Korda, and Korda's car catches on fire. Korda survives, but is badly burned, during which Scott rescues Ronnie. Next, Korda tries to make his getaway but confronts McCall in the process. They both shoot at each other, and Korda shoots McCall, upon which he survives. While Korda attempts to escape in a truck, Scott goes after him, and, after a brief confrontation, Korda's truck runs into a stack of explosive barrels. Scott jumps out of the way just seconds before Korda rams into the barrels. The truck bursts into flames and explodes, killing him.
The movie ends with Scott and Ronnie relaxing on their vacation on a Tahitian beach resort.
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