Subway was one of Luc Besson’s films that I haven’t seen but ive been aware of it since just before it was released in 1985. I used to read through film magazines like a stockbroker would read through the Financial Times and I do remember seeing still images of Subway in many of the magazines I read at the time of release. The still images didn’t really tell me anything about the film and so for some reason I never saw the film. However I have for the past year or three been on one of those ‘I want to play catch-up’ when it comes to my film viewing and so what better way to experience Subway, than in this now released 3-disc 4K UHD SteelBook 

Released the year before the iconic Highlander, I suspect that many people saw Subway after they watched Christophe Lambert as Connor McCleod chopping off heads. But considering that I didn’t see the film until 2025, and it came out in 1985 then who am I to critique when people first saw a film.  So now that I have seen Subway, what are my thoughts? I liked it! Its very strange, it has zany characters in it, and its not a simple film. Its not a complicated one either but its one of those films that whilst I was watching it, I wasn’t sure what I was thinking of it, but once I got to the end titles, and I let the film settle in my head for a few hours, I realised that I did have fun watching it and can easily see myself revising it from time to time. So, what is Subway about? Well to slightly expand on the IMDB summary. Subway takes us into the world of Fred (played by Christophe Lambert) who goes on the run after he burgles a tycoons house and runs off with some documents.  Fred hides out in a Paris subway station and its here he meets those zany characters I mentioned who end up getting into all sorts of shenanigans and trouble as they evade the law and the tycoons henchmen.

Whilst this is a very early film directed by Luc Besson who would then go onto direct films such as Nikita and The Fifth Element  you can see the visual talent of Besson in this film. Whilst the plot is a simple one, the film is super stylish and has a ton of ambitious shots and set pieces in, including a great opening card chase right at the start. To make a film that’s pretty much set in a Subway station look visually impressive isn’t an easy feat but Luc Besson and his team succeed. So if you haven’t seen Subway and want to check out some of Luc Besson’s work before he became a household name then I do recommend Subway. The 4K looks great and sounds great and sounds great too and as you’ll see from the rest of this article, the set is also feature packed!

The highly collectable SteelBook includes a 4K UHD presentation of the film, and comes with two additional Blu-ray discs and a host of brand new extras which add up to over 3 hours of extras. More than enough to go from ‘Ive never heard of the film’ to ‘I know more than most people about this film’ in a single afternoon or evening. So what do you get on the set? Well lets go through it. 

On the 4K UHD Disc & Bluray D Disc 1 you get the  Feature  Film which runs for 1hr 42 minutes) On the 4K and Bluray disc 1 you also get an 80 minute documentary which is a new doc entitled The Making of Subway 

Next up is Bluray Disc 2 where you’ll find the following

New Extra: Interview with Jean-Hugues Anglade, actor (18 minutes)

New Extra: Interview with Sophie Schmit, editor and co-writer (30 Minutes)

New Extra: Interview with Didier Grousset, assistant director (20 Minutes)

New Extra: Interview with Didier Naert, assistant set designer (28 Minutes)

New Extra: Michel Jonasz discusses Arthur Simms, singer of It’s  Only Mystery ( 16 minutes)

That’s a total of 112 minutes of featurettes on that disc, and adding on the 80 minute Making Of, you are well over the three hour mark. More than enough to say that this is definitely a feature packed set that’s worth picking up and adding to your collection. 

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