Directed by:
Tony ScottScreenplay:
Mark BombackCinematography:
Ben SeresinComposer:
Harry Gregson-WilliamsCast:
Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Jessy Schram, Kevin Dunn, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Chapman, Kevin Corrigan, Lew Temple, Elizabeth Mathis, Aisha Hinds (more)VOD (3)
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A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Scranton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer (Washington) and a young conductor (Pine). Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster. Helmed by visionary director Tony Scott (Man on Fire), this story inspired by true events delivers excitement and suspense that are - unstoppable! (official distributor synopsis)
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Scott has tamed the visual orgy down to a minimum, instead letting James T. Kirk and Senor Creasy put the brakes on the Runaway Train, which is pumping at maximum warp drive. All this in the year's most suspenseful film, where I involuntarily let out a few "Wow!" moments. Without a drop of shame, I admit that I was hoping for a happy ending, just like the emotional American families of heroes on TV screens, or when clichés and adrenaline work in the best possible ratio. [Coincidentally watched on a train.]
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The title doesn't lie. Tony Scott made an uncompromising action flick that combines the atmosphere of old-school John Frankenheimer or Don Siegel blockbusters with contemporary, digitally supercharged visuals, and it gets going early on... and then it's just goes, goes, goes. True, there's not much that's unexpected or revelatory in Unstoppable, but it's such an entertaining and fun film that I found myself staring. As I hold the DVD cover in my hands, I wonder why the hell it didn't come to the movie theatres?
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Dynamic, thrilling at times, and, surprisingly, without a ton of clichés (which I would expect from a film like this). One would expect another epileptic fit from Tony Scott, but this time he delivers something completely different. A fast and relatively simple action film, where there's no time even to go to the toilet. I think that the director created exactly what he intended: a top-notch film within its genre.
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Especially in the last 30 minutes a solid adrenaline dose. It's been done before and in a better version (Končalovský's Runaway Train, for instance), but otherwise this action flick has one big trump card, and that is the unorthodox setting of railway transport. Scott ticks along with the action, thanks to which even the mandatory clichés surrounding the protagonist's family can be survived unscathed.
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♫ She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes, she’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes... ♫ This doesn’t really sum everything up, but Scott’s “playing with trains" is a perfect example of suspense from start to finish. And does it matter that he achieves this using a thousand and one movie clichés? No it doesn’t because in any case you have no time to realize this before the final credits come up.
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