Metro is a 1997 action/suspense comedy 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 . Scott Roper is the best hostage negotiator in San Francisco. His girlfriend Veronica "Ronnie" Tate is a newspaper reporter. While listening to a horse race on his car stereo, Scott is called downtown where a man named Earl is holding 17 hostages in a bank. Scott rescues the hostages by shooting Earl. Scott is then assigned a partner –... sharpshooter Kevin McCall . That night, Scott takes his friend, Lieutenant Sam Baffert , to see a man named Michael Korda . Scott waits downstairs while Sam is in Korda's apartment. Sam asks Korda about a man who deals in stolen jewellery, 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 violently stabbing Sam to death in an elevator.
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| Release date: | 1997 |
| Directed by: | Thomas Carter |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 117 Minutes |
| Producer: | Roger Birnbaum |
| Editor: | Peter E. Berger, John Wright |
| Music by: | Steve Porcaro |
| Cinematography: | Fred Murphy |
| Screenplay by: | Randy Feldman |
| Estimated budget: | $55,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Comedy, Action |