Set in the Budapest subway system it deals with the lives of a team of ticket inspectors, their trials and tribulations with stroppy customers and their interactions with the denizens of this subterranean world. At the outset their chief remarks that the number suicides,or jumpers, is rising. The team leader of a motley crew of inspectors suspects that the rise is not what it seems and eventually confronts the serial killer with a breathtaking outcome.
The films starts quite oddly with a personal appearance of the real chief of the underground system reading a disclaimer to the effect that the Budapest ticket inspectors are not at all as portrayed and that their transport system is quite safe. That aside, this is a very well made film placing a dysfunctional team into extraordinary situations. I think it benefits a second viewing. Antal manages to generate an uncomfortably real feeling of menace when dealing with the protagonist and the revealing chase sequence packs a punch that will make you sit up.
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