It was a great movie, but what was it?

Question

A business man sort of highjacks this train (I think on his way to work). He makes the conductor listen to him, but he, himself, remains in the passenger car. He is holding the passengers hostage and is communicating with the police every few hours, making demands. I'm pretty sure he also be wearing a bomb.

One of the hostages befriends him a little. Then he reveals to him that he is a cop or a retired sheriff or something...

In the end, the business man is convinced by his "retired cop" friend to give himself up. They stop in a tunnel where the police are waiting for them, and they both come out. The police then try to arrest him, but the business man runs back into the train and blows it up or something.

Please, please, please!! It was a great movie, but I was in a foreign country when I saw it and could not find out what movie it was.

I do know that it was an American movie, though.

I don't know who was in it. I'm not up on actors and such.

It's not The Taking of Pelham 123. I think it's a more modern movie. There's just one highjacker, and I think he communicates with police via the radio. Like I said, he's a businessman on his way to work.

I watched it in July of 2006. I was in a country that isn't very up-to-date, so I don't think it's very new. It looked like it was made, at the earliest, late 80's. At the latest, a few years ago.

It wasn't Under Siege.

Answer 1

I think it was "Taking of Pelham 123." It had Walter Matthau in it. I remember it because when I lived in NYC I always took the Pelham line so I felt connected to the scene.

Answer 2

It sounds sort of like The Taking of Pelham 123.

Answer 3

No it's not the Taking of Pelham, as that movie had armed men hijacking a subway car, not a one-man bomber. It was a very good movie though.

Can you give us a time frame when you watched it?

Answer 4

who was in it? That mighthelp and it sounds really familiar

Answer 5

i think it under siege