Rosario Dawson is good as Connie, who aids Barnes and Colson in directing them in their unplanned pursuits of stopping the train, but doesn't entirely stand out remarkably from the small bunch.Īside from the whirling camera work, I found the most frustrating thing about Unstoppable to be the amount of profanity. Pine played the small town hero well as Kirk and steps into those brand of shoes easily again as Will Colson. Kirk, is a great rookie colleague for Washington's Barnes and their scenes together are the charm of the film. Still, fairly newcomer Chris Pine, who's most recognizable for last year's Star Trek reboot as James T. Denzel Washington is his usual reliably solid actor self as Barnes, although his character isn't much different than most of his previous ones. As stated before, the tension never lets up during this loud film and it helps keep the audience involved in the story.
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From the moment the trains get rolling, the movie is in high gear, even when characters are just talking. It's one of the movies that you're likely to feel exhausted from by the time the credits roll.īut Scott and company know what the right ingredients are for an entertaining movie and Unstoppable is certainly one of them. It does get tiresome fast, but, admittedly, it's a gimmick that helps keep the tension building and sustained throughout the entire film's running time. Even when characters are shouting into a phone while standing behind an office desk or terminal, the camera is often whizzing around the subject. But unlike Scott's previous venture, Unstoppable's camera almost never stops for longer than a couple seconds. But it's the hip film shading, edits, and camera tricks that make Unstoppable feel a lot like Scott's Déjà Vu (not to mention the presence of Washington in both). Like the tornadoes in Twister, it's a force to be reckoned with and it takes more than our central heroes to try to band together to survive the inanimate foe. Train #777 (not sure why they chose such a train number for the movie) is not only red in color but ominous in its portrayal on screen. Like the latter, the film almost works as a monster movie in the sense that the chief nemesis for our heroes is a seemingly unstoppable force. Scott films the movie with a bit of a music-video eye, creating a feel not too far off from a marriage of his own 2006 film Déjà Vu (which also featured Denzel) and that of the small town-centered Twister (1996). The plot follows Denzel Washington's veteran Frank Barnes and Chris Pine's rookie Will Colson on a high-speed race against time through the hills and forests of rural Pennsylvania. Regardless of the inflated reality of the film, Unstoppable actually works very well as a tense thriller. So, to say that Scott's fictionalized take on the event is embelished would be somewhat of an understatement. The real life event, however, starts somewhat similarly, but the true 2001 events not only took place in Ohio, but they also never saw the train even reach 50mph. The film involves a runaway, unmanned train that accidentally rolls out of a small town in Pennsylvania and barrels down the tracks at an alarming 70 miles per hour. It seems like Hollywood is looking to real life for inspiration for motion picture stories a lot these days, and the latest "Inspired By True Events" tale to grace the big screen is Tony Scott's Unstoppable. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main).Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main).
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