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another train a long time engineer named Barnes was breaking in a new man Carlson so in the station yard a yard master named Connie Hooper is in charge of this patch in operations so in the railroads Corporate Offices an executive is concerned mostly about the cost of losing the chain which seems harsh since it is caring hazards materials and is rocketing State toward the hurt of Scranton PA overhead news Chopper Circle providing a live TV feed that Scott intricates with the action that allows him a possible way to provide an overview in read the action a similar device was used by Hills Brother Ridley Scott to help us follow events in his black heart down so there isn't a lot of room here for personality development about Washington and Pine provide convincing characters the veteran driven by love of his job the new guy moved Stanley Cup this conflict is entramped up for the dramatic effect in the screenplay by Mark palmbeck but is allowed to play out as naturally as it can under the circumstances Rosario Dawson makes her dispatcher aggressively competent and the hurtling train of course rumbles beneath everything so Chase scenes and lowering chains have an unavoidable limit so trains require tax and can only go forward or in Reverse so there are sidings but cutting one to one may not be very simple so two other films that come to mind are both turkey turns the yendra ain't entry controls Keys Runway train which won Oscar nominations for the two men in its locomotive John White and Eric Roberts half Scott deals with his chills is not for me to reveal here but although the possibilities of two chains on one track would seem to be limited he and bomb back a truly ingenious they employ a kind of logical little thinking so the chains can move only in 13 ways but those ways may not be as obvious as we assume so note that those are terms we are thinking of during the action the photography and sound here are very effective in establishing that a train is in nervously habiting and once in motion wants to continue we knew that but Scott our butt crushes us with the weight of the juggernaut we are Spellbound and we sure hope those little kids are saved the power of trains and the terror of one getting out of control has both something real ain't a metaphor for Modern Life where subjects of great Fascination for writers of the Victorian era Dickens himself survived a major real disaster and went on to write the horrific ghost story the single man Zola's labete Humane is set in the real world and ends with a runaway chain checking its passengers to their deaths the cinema picked up this preoccupation and Tony Scott's Unstoppable a white snackle trailer is in a tradition that includes Bernard Warhols British B-movie classic the last journey in which Godfrey dearly Gold's berserk driving an Express locomotive in the west country and the Hollywood runaway train scripted by Akira kurosova and shown in competition Adkins in 1986. so Scott's picture is set in Rust Belt peninsulania and is a tribute to blue-collar Americans that stars Danville Washington era the 25-year veteran diver about to be late off with half his benefits and Chris Pine has an inexperienced conductor who risked their lives to slow down or divert a driverless train pulling a load of trucks as long as the Chrysler Building containing toxic highly combustible material stable but plausible and exciting the live TV coverage of the impending disaster is cleverly used to make technical matters lucid and the brilliant sound editing an essential part of the experience should be a shoe in foreign Oscar Rosario Dawson is splendidly can't read entender as a dedicated assistant yard Master the picture book big big big bigger in biggest trucks and the girls comes with what its publisher describes as an action-packed 30-minute DVD so children can watch their favorite machines at work digging howling and dumping how do it clocks an app 68 minutes longer end features Big Trains instead of big trucks along with a long haul starring Denzel Washington Unstoppable the largest from Tony Scott brings to mind those popular PV entertainments that allow gangsters to explore the world of backhoe dark holes and soil compactors are as big bigger and biggest promises the biggest machines in action Mr Scott directs some of the biggest action machines in Hollywood somewhere Mr Washington a some 13 certainly more entertaining than a hydraulic extra vacator the two men have made five movies together including this new one which suggests that the they have developed a camera ID along with a print and apparent fondness for trains last year Mr Washington starred in Mr Scott's remake of The Taking of Fallon one two three as an optical clouded Subway dispatcher who redeems himself by taking down John travoltased hijacker so there you make didn't have the great or gaffity of the 1974 original but it had its Pleasures including an Odd Couple harmonizing of Mr Washington's every man stodginess with Mr tavoltas Flamboyant Mr Washington himself excels at playing dangerous men but it in Mr Scott's film he plays men of conscience such is the case in Unstoppable wear with the volume turned down he portrays the calm seemingly unremarkable Frank Barnes a western engineer who's been breaking runs on Rust Belt tracks for three decades so Frank is lost a character than a collection of bits and pieces pointing to an idea of character he wears reading glasses he has a pair of daughters he or pull your doors he is a pragmatism pragmatist he is also battled though this is probably thanks to the hair stylist mentioned in the credits so the movie opens on the day Frank finds himself partnered with a new conductor will Carlson a hot head within a strange VP wife in the kind of over inflated bad attitude that in the movies sometimes need to be taken to the Woodshed by the weapon African American male actor so oftentimes that actor is Morgan Freeman though practically those duties fall to Mr Washington Mr Pine emerging screen Talent easily holds your attention with that bad attitude and those near translucent blue eyes so this isn't a small thing given the dominating fool sitting next to him like a magisterial Buddha in the cramped space the sheriff are much off the movie Unstoppable rituals written by Mark Bombeck comes with the pledge of authenticity that the story was inspired by actual events though the names have been changed and so forth the inspiration was a 47 car train that in May 2001. so across Ohio for some 65 miles without any human guidance so at times clocking 45 miles an hour many of the cards were empty or carrying fright like cable but dear Ross hazardous material abroad too as in the fictional version the movie borrows some other true life details but news reports of the event are no match for the Nutty kinetic entertainment of the on-screen interpretation so Mr Scott is partial to blunt rapid Cuts ripping pants and saturated colors he likes twirling the camera around characters like a sugared up thought running 360s on the playground a hyperactive visual style that can turn the screen into a blur of pulsating color here working with the cinematographer Ben saracen and some is sound technicians he creates an unexpectedly ritual of chugging rushing trains slicing cross equally beautiful industrial aimed natural landscapes so there is something mesmerizing about these things and the men who run them something nostalgic to but they seem like history machines summoning up past left and also imagined as in for starters the great chain robbery North by Northwest ain't speed Unstoppable Unstoppable doesn't belong in that company it it's story is largely forget table and it's pleasure our child's transitory limited to the actors and to its moments of beauty and strange comedy at one point in an attempt to hit an emergency stop button the police actually shoot at the train firing in frenzied fertility so it's as if they were trying to down the dragon with pea shooters so it's a ridiculous image openly laughable yet it's the kind of outrageous excessive flourish that can make mistress God's work as so enjoyable in the moment he doesn't do much but with a handful of appealing actors in tall he sure keeps that machine going attained chap leave a giant locomotive unmanned in gathering terrifying moments so when all else feels it's down to old time driver Frank Barnes and his green horn conductor will Carlson to mount a seemingly impossible rescue B Tony Scott's new film is inspired by real events but don't let that put you off this is a film about ranavi chain shot with a battalion Battalion of runaway cameras in a haze of what Scott might consider turbocharged very real reports have never looked so Macho a chick a muscular Marlboro main backdrop shimmering in absurdly perfect winter light sure there is numerous rumors of Truth beneath the clanking metal of high concept a chain with no driver a period of toxic chemicals and a brake less hurtling to populated regions of low peninsulin but Scott the younger hats pursued every micro second half big bond moviness from the proposition in other words we sense Denzel Washington and Captain Kirk in heart Pursuit it is required then they be a mismatched pair each hiding a farm to offer the ghost of subplots to a singular mission sorry video to train Yoda Washington is being sidelined too old to cut it petulant conductor care has a marriage on the Rocks so mutual distrust will give the two Stick it to the system defines Bruce Springsteen lyrics in thick greens and checked shirts so from the opening scenes of weary men setting out Firework the film feels in Shore Hands their chemistry is so much better than formula patter wrestling with Washington's grandiloquent laughter Pines brittle veneer and the scripts regardless mix of grainy real speak and Earthly man domains on age narrage ain't having your daughters do shifts at Hooters so make no mistake it's a disaster movie little known tax there is nowhere else to go but down that line and not not enough speeds cocktail shaker off romance Thriller and Disaster Movie parody even if Hot controlled Rosario doesn't Frets into her mic so taking plaque from the superiors who just wants to save the share price led by David Dunn's purse lip suit the boss's lunch their own bound to feel rescue attempts leaving it to our boys Gruff with heroism to charge down the local logo in their own engine hook it up and apply the brakes in a blizzard of heavily Sparks whatever CG glue has been used to check the impossible the film has a definitely real world presence what is it about trains and movies that fits so well you would greet this as a heavy metal reboot of the general a cold country western wear the frontier Spirit can get outflank the Khaki techno robots I've got weaves in Fox network updates as a Greek Charles of Chris doubles the actual earrings play as a hem to hard one experience the Top Gun Watson who possibly views himself as an old-timer fending off a new breed of flash Harry still has a Sublime gift for surrendered serenadine The Brute Hulk of American machines old school can still win the day based on a real life Runway train accident in Toledo Ohio on 15 by 2001. Unstoppable is a thrilling movie full of high-powered action and nail beating suspense on that fateful day in May a 14 a 47 car CSX locomotive left a Toledo or your real job without an engineer and wasn't stopped until it had runs for 66 miles through three countries for the film the area has been changed to Peninsula peninsulania names have been changed but the story remains full of drama and real life poachers Frank Barnes is a 28-year veteran of the real root industry ain't widowed father of two DNA Charters so on a work day that starts out just like any other Frank finds themselves teamed with a new tiny named will Carlson who has his own life issues so the relationship starts out strained as both men attempt to find their ground with one another but soon a much bigger issue starts to loom over their lives so Frank ain't Wills train is on the same main tag as an unmanned run away train which is headed toward the highly populated area of Stanton the escaped strain effectively the land power of a skyscraper is traveling at break deck speeds has no air brakes and it is carrying multiple fried Cars full of Hazard chemicals which is which are destined to explore if drailed so after two failed attempts from corporate are made to stop the speeding train and the loss of his best friend who tries to stop the death missile during those attempts Frank takes matters into his own hands with support from yard Master Connie Hooper the woman at the monitors and controls of all the teams in their part of the state Frank Angel decide it's up to them to stop the warp speed train using their own indianity by latching on to it before behind a risky and death-defying concept on its own so action-packed from start to finish we are involved in abridity three-dimensional way as we ride along with Frank and will raising the clock as they chase down that one million tons of seemingly Unstoppable Steel every moment of this film is spent on compelling drama and thrilling energy as the collectors were mentally risk their lives to save won't lack others your loved ones watching in horror while the media plasters the rescue mission on National Television Unstoppable is a rated PG-13 for sequences of action in parallel and some language I believe it is it to be correct in caution so parents to be prepared through making their families subject to high powered and very realistic seen of death near death blood injury and perils there is a scene where a collector gets there is a scene where a character gets his foot clamped between two real cars there is also a scene where a character is thrown into the glass windshield of a speeding train there are several scenes where cars are crashed and blown up and one scene where a speeding locomotive is blown up in a pile of fire and a character is killed in the process so this film is dedicated from the fall scenes to the Finish to getting the viewer involved on a very Vivid and extremely realistic level and if you are riding the reels right bang with its characters if parents feel their 13 year olds and especially younger children cannot take this type of experience be advised on the other hand this film is an excellent portrait of human beings who are willing to sacrifice their lives to save other lives on a crying scale it shows bravely unselfishness and great love on the part of the main characters as well as others on the sidelines so it is a wonderful example of forgiveness and power Valor hey I'm happy to note the end is a happy one although some may feel it contribute you must keep in mind the script was based on a real life event ain't that in itself proves that we do not do have positive outcomes in the face of insurmountable odds in our early real world so it underscores the fortitude and resolution of the human spirit for anyone who enjoyed movies like speed this film is for all you I enjoyed it and found it well worth the price of admission fasting your seat belts Unstoppable a 95 minute till ride from director Tony Scott delivers the right level of adrenaline unfortunately the sure acceleration is dampened somewhat by an overall lines upon action to learn stock situations and characters so in the production concentrates on the action which includes dangerous activities and a Race Against Time Unstoppable Deliverance somehow however the incorporation of glitched Back stories for key characters fractious relationship between the protagonists and and unnecessary villain all elements left from the unscreened actors handbook provide moments of unwelcoming unnecessary annoyance it's a difficult thing to craft a motion picture in which bad guy is a runaway train there is no way to put a human face on the antagonist it's so Less in uncaring the central struggle is therefore more impersonal so some movies of this ilk are assembled better than others but the crutches filmmakers rely upon in these circumstances are often not so as effective as they might wish so Unstoppable reminds me of Twister although it's fractionalized fractionally more suspenseful and considerably less cheesy still it implies a concrete conflict between the protagonists and Toes in a human opinion rather than having faith that the story stripped to its Essentials can stand on its own we don't need to know that will Carlson is fighting a restraining order filled by his wife in order to appreciate the chances he takes so we don't need to understand that the lava Fields two doctors is what motivates Frank bonds to risk his life the initial Bitcoin between the two characters does not make their eventual cooperation more meaningful and roswellians go Kevin Dunn is reduced to irrelevancy by a big very big very fast moving train Unstoppable is inspired by true airing switches technically a curate statement although considerable license has been taken to amplify the tension and make the situation more cinematic the historic bases offer Unstoppable is a May 15 2001 instant incident in which an unmanned CSX Chain become a runaway covering 66 miles in Ohio in under two hours before being stopped in a manner similar to what is depicted in the movie May many of the specifics how the train ended up under power without anyone on board so how the police reacted and what there will be operators did to minimize injuries and damage so reflect what happened in the real world the characters however are completely made up will is aruki and Frank as a veteran and therein lies the kernel of their Mutual disdain so will doesn't like being looked down upon for his inexperience Frank is annoyed because the company is bringing on board low paid and inexperienced workers to replace lifers like him why these two are in the getting to know you face off their relationship bad things are happening Elsewhere on the main line a series of mishaps and errors results in an unmanned chain living it's stationed in accelerating to an alarming speed so at first it's thought to be a coaster that can be easily overtaken and stopped so it doesn't take long however for train dispatcher Connie Hooper to realize the train is not only under power but is rushing headline into a heavily populated area and that several of the cars are filled with toxic inflammable chemicals so we'll then track are on a kalism course with the chain a if they cannot survive their game of chicken they may be the only hope of stopping it before it heads for certain drillment in the midst of a peninsula peninsulania city with a population of 750 000 people so Tony Scott who is arguably one of the most uneven action thriller directors working today is at the top of his game for this movie so he keeps the visual flourishes to a minimum and realize sparingly on handheld shots the film's look as clean and almost classical with well-framed shots and not a lot of quick cutting some visual variety as provided by incorporating local new cars footage Scott frequently films the chain from in front and Below enhancing its Minas in the sound effects made it make it sound like an angry Beast as it Roars past the situation is carefully explained so it becomes clear then the lives of two men so at times Unstoppable plays like an inverted speed with the Mandate of getting the train speed below a threshold to a white disaster so it's almost impossible to write about a runaway train movie without mentioning Andre konchalowski 1985 Thriller runaway train the two films are actually quite different with runaway chain focusing on escaping and impeding disaster while this one is about averting it nevertheless the clock is ticking in both narratives and level of suspense ramps of the closer thing ever come to the point of no return start smartly keeps Learning Time short and avoids spending too much time on the distracting so made up backstories and character interaction Unstoppable is about racing to cheat disaster and for the most part there that's where the filmmakers keep the focus the goal is to elevate the heart rate and produce a few little marks on armrests because it achieves that it's easy to forgive the occasional guitar to be cinematic scrapped pile of stock parts to plug certain narrative holes so Denzel Washington named his spine are confident and relaxed in these roles embodying all that that's necessary for working class hero so name recognition is an important reason for their casting but their peasants AIDS in identification with the collectors ultimately in the face of the of some power of half my long train battling along at 70 miles per hour the efforts of two men seems a paltry thing and it's the combined sense of heroism and Desperation with high stakes that offers Unstoppable at least a chance of fulfilling the promise of its name at the box office the Fright strain pulls out of a sighting with no engineer on board and accelerates to 70 miles per hour and you see how Tony Scott's Unstoppable gets its title the movie is then as a Relentless as the train slowly Gathering momentum before the Relentless final hour of continuous suspense in terms of sheer craft mainship this is a superb fill the trouble begins when an engineer Dismounts after thinking he had brought the chain to a Full Stop he hasn't when he sees the train slowly pulling away the look on his face is adequate to fuel the next several minutes so at first it's assumed that the train is a coaster but no like it's under Full Throttle Scott tells the story from several points of view in the cap of another train a long time engineer named Barnes was breaking in a new man Carlson so in the station yard a yard master named Connie Hooper is in charge of dispatching operations so in the railroads Corporate Offices an executive is concerned mostly about the cost of losing the train which seems harsh since it is caring hazards materials and is rocketing straight toward the hurt of Scranton PA overhead news Chopper Circle providing a live TV feed that Scott intricates with the action that allows him a possible way to provide an overview in read the action a similar device was used by Hills Brother Ridley Scott to help us follow events in his back heart down so there isn't a lot of room here for personality development about Washington and Pine provide convincing characters the Western driven by love of his job the new guy moved Seneca this conflict is entramped up for the dramatic effect in the screenplay by Mark palmbeck but is allowed to play out as naturally as it can under the circumstances Rosario Dawson makes her dispatcher aggressively competent and the hurtling train of course rumbles beneath everything so change scenes involving chains happen unavoidable limit so trains require tax and can only go forward or in reverse so there are sidings but cutting one to one may not be very simple so two other films that come to mind are Buster kittens the yandra ain't entry controls Keys Runway train which one Oscar nominations or the two men in its locomotive John whiteane Eric Roberts how Scott deals with his cheese is not for me to reveal here but although the possibilities of two chains on one track would seem to be limited he and Bomb Bag a truly ingenious they employ a kind of logical little thinking so the trainings can move only in certain ways but those ways may not be as obvious as we assume so not that those are terms we are thinking of during the action the photography and sound here are very effective in establishing that a Chinese and nervously habiting and once in motion wants to continue we knew that but it's got our butt crushes us with the weight of the juggernaut we are still bound and we sure hope those little kids are saved the power of trains and the terror often getting out of control has built something real ain't a metaphor for Modern Life where subjects of great Fascination for writers of the Victorian era Dickens himself survived a major real disaster and went on to write the horrific ghost story the single man Zola's lab is Humane is set in the real world and ends with a runaway chain taking its passengers to their deaths the cinema picked up this preoccupation and Tony Scott's Unstoppable a White Knuckle trailer is in a tradition that includes Bernard Warhols British B-movie classic the last journey in which Godfrey Tyrrell Gold's berserk joining an Express locomotive in the west country and the Hollywood runaway train scripted by Akira kurosova and shown in competition Askins in 1986. so Scott's picture is set in Rust Belt peninsulania and is a tribute to Blue Collar Americans it stars Denzel Washington era the 25-year Western diver about to be laid off with half his benefits and Chris Pine has an inexperienced conductor who risked their life to slow down or divert a driverless train pulling a load of trucks as long as the Chrysler Building containing toxic highly combustible material it's predictable but plausible and exciting the live TV coverage of the impending disaster is cleverly used to make technical matters lose it and the brilliant sound adityan essential part of the experience should be a shoe in foreign comes with what its publisher describes as an action-packed 30-minute DVD so children can watch their favorite machines at work digging howling and dumping 68 minutes longer aim features Big Trains instead of big trucks along with a Long Hall starring Denzel Washington Unstoppable the largest from Tony Scott brings to mind those popular PV entertainments that allow gangsters to explore the world of backhaul back holes and soil compactors are as big bigger and biggest promises the biggest machines in action Mr Scott directs some of the biggest action machines in Hollywood somewhere Mr Washington a some 13 certainly more entertaining than a hydraulic exhibitator the two men have made five movies together including this new one which suggests that the they have developed a camera ID along with a print and apparent fondness for trains last year Mr Washington starred in Mr Scott's remake of The Taking of Fallon one two three as an ethical crowded software dispatcher who redeems himself by taking down John travel test hijacker so there you make the entire the great or gaffity of the 1974 original but it had its Pleasures including an Odd Couple harmonizing of Mr Washington's Aubry man stodginess Mr tavoltas flamboyant villainy Mr Washington himself excels at playing dangerous men but it in Mr Scott's film he plays men off cancion Khan science such is the case in Unstoppable with the volume turned down he portrays the calm seemingly unremarkable Frank Barnes a western engineer who's been making runs on Rust Belt tracks for three decades so Frank is lost a character than a collection of bits and pieces pointing to an idea of character he wears reading glasses he has a pair of daughters he'll pull your doors he is a pragmatism pragmatist he is also bowled though this is probably thanks to the hair stylist mentioned in the credits so the movie opens on the day Frank finds himself partnered with a new conductor will Carlson a hot head with an estranged VP wife in the kind of over inflated bad attitude that in the movies sometimes need to be taken to the Woodshed by the Western African-American male actor so oftentimes that actor is Morgan Freeman no practically those duties fall to Mr Washington Mr Piner find emerging screen Talent easily holds your attention with that bad attitude and those near translucent blue eyes so this is a new smile thing given the dominating fool sitting next to him like a magisterial Buddha in the cramped space the sheriff are much of the movie Unstoppable which was written by Mark Bombeck comes with the pledge of authenticity that the story was inspired by actual events though the names have been changed and so forth the inspiration was a 47 car Tree in that in May 2001 took the cross over here for some 65 miles without any human guidance so at times clocking 45 miles an hour many of the cars were MTR caring Freight like cable but dirov hazardous material abroad to as in the fictional version the movie borrows some other two like details but news reports of the event are no match for the Nutty kinetic entertainment of the on-screen interpretation so Mr Scott is a partial to blend rapid Cuts ripping pants and saturated colors he likes twirling the camera around characters like a sugared up thought running 360s on the playground a hyperactive visual style that can turn the screen into a blur of pulsating color here working with the cinematographer Ben saracen and some Ace sound technicians he creates an unexpectedly ritual of chugging rushing trains slicing cross equally beautiful industrial end natural landscapes so there is something mesmerizing about these genes and the men who run them something nostalgic too but they seem like history machines summoning up a past lift and I also imagined as in for starters the great chain robbery North by Northwest in speed Unstoppable Unstoppable doesn't belong in that company it its story is largely forgettable and its pleasure or Giants transitory limited to the actors and to its moments of beauty and strange comedy at one point in an attempt to hit an emergency stop button the police actually shoot at the train firing in frenzied fertility so it's as if they were trying to down the dragon with pea shooters so it's a ridiculous image openly laughable yet it's the kind of outrageous excessive flourish that can make mistress God's work as so enjoyable in the moment he doesn't do much but with a handful of appealing actors in tall he sure keeps that machine going attain the admission leave a giant locomotive and maintain Gathering terrifying moments so when all else feels it's down to old time driver Frank Barnes and his green horn conductor will Carlson to mount a seemingly impossible rescue B Tony Scott's new film is inspired by real events but don't let that put you off this is a film about ranavi chain shot with a battalion Battalion of runaway cameras in a raise of what Scott might consider turbocharged ready real Deportes have never looked so much I checked a muscular Marlboro main backdrop shimmering in absurdly perfect winter light sure there is numerous rumors of Truth beneath the clanking metal of high concept a chain with no driver a period of toxic chemicals and a brake less huddling to populated regions of low peninsulin but Scott the younger hats pursued every micro second of big bond moviness from the proposition in other words we sense Denzel Washington and Captain Kirk in Hot Pursuit it is required then they be a mismatched pair each hiding a star to offer the ghost of subplots to a singular mission sorry without the train Yoda Washington is being sidelined too old to cut it back to Lane conductor care as a marriage on the Rocks so mutual distrust will give me to stick it to the system defines Bruce Springsteen lyrics in thick greens and checked shirts so from the opening scenes of weary men setting out Firework the film feels in Shore Hands their chemistry is so much better than formula patter wrestling with Washington's Grand dealer coint laughter Pines brittle when he aimed the scripts of garlic mix of grainy real speak and healthy man domains on age marriage and having your daughters do shifts at Hooters so make no mistake it's a disaster movie little known tax there is nowhere else to go but down that line and not none of speeds cocktail shifted off romance Thriller and Disaster Movie parody even if Hot controlled Rosario doesn't Frets into her mic so taking plaque from the superiors who just wants to save the share price led by David Dunn's purse lip suit the boss's lunch their own bound to feel rescue attempts living it to her boys rough with heroism to charge down the local logo in their own engine hook it up and apply the brakes in a blizzard of heavily Sparks whatever CG glue has been used to tick The Impossible the film has a definitely real world presence what is it about trains and movies that fits so well you would greet this as a heavy metal reboot of the general a tall country western where the frontier Spirit can get out flying the Khaki techno Bratz I've got weaves in Fox network updates as a Greek Charles of Chris devils the actual earrings play as a him to hard one experience the Top Gun Watson who possibly views himself as an old-timer fending off a new breed of flash Harry still has a Sublime gift for surrendered serenadine The Brute Hulk of American machines old school can still win the day based on a real life Runway train accident in Toledo Ohio on 15 by 2001. Unstoppable is a killing movie full of high-powered action and nail beating suspense on that fateful day in my 14th a 47 car CSX locomotive left a Toledo Ohio real job without an engineer and wasn't stopped until it had runs for 66 miles through three countries for the film the area has been changed to Pennsylvania Pennsylvania named have been changed but the story means full of drama and real life poachers Frank Barnes is a 28 year veteran of the real root industry ain't widowed father of two teenage daughters so on a work day that starts out just like any other Frank finds himself teamed with a new tiny named will Carlson who has his own life issues so the relationship starts out strained as both men attempt to find their ground with one another but soon a much bigger issue starts to loom over their lives so Frank and wills trainees are on the same main tag as an unmanned run away train which is headed toward the highly populated area of Stanton the escaped strain effectively the length of a skyscraper is traveling at brake deck speeds has no air brakes and is carrying multiple fried Cars full of Hazard chemicals which is which are dusting to explore if derailed so after two failed attempts from corporate are made to stop the speeding train and the loss of his best friend who tries to stop the death missile during those attempts Frank takes matters into his own hands with support from yard Master Connie Hooper the woman at the monitors and controls of all the teams in their part of the state Frank ain't will decide it's up to them to stop the warp speed train using their own indianity by latching on to it reform behind a risky and just defined concept on its own so action-packed from start to finish we are involved in every gritty three-dimensional way as we ride along with Frank and will raising the Clark hours they chase down that one million tons of seemingly Unstoppable Steel every moment of this film is spent on compelling drama and training energy as the characters were mentally risked their lives to see won't lack others their loved ones watching in horror while the media plasters the rescue mission on National Television Unstoppable is rated PG-13 for sequences of action in parallel and some language I believe it is it to be correct in caution so parents to be prepared through making their families subject to high powered and very realistic scene of death near death blood injury and perils there is a scene where a character gets there is a scene where a character gets his foot clamped between two real cars there is also a scene where a character is thrown into the glass or in Shield of a speeding train there are several scenes where cars are crashed in blown up and one scene where a speeding locomotive is blown up in a battle of fire and a character is killed in the process so this film is dedicated from the false scenes to the Finish to getting the viewer involved on a very Vivid and extremely realistic level and if you are riding the reels right pong with its characters if parents feel their 13 year olds and especially younger children cannot take this type of experience be advised on the other hand this film is an excellent portrait of human beings who are willing to sacrifice their life to save other lives on a crying scale it shows bravely unselfishness and create love on the part of the main characters as well as others on the sidelines so it is a wonderful example of forgiveness and pure Valor hey I'm happy to note the end is a happy one although some may feel it contribute we must keep in mind the script was based on a real life event in that in itself proves that we do not do have positive outcomes in the face of insurmountable odds in our early real world so it underscores the fortitude and resolution of the human spirit for anyone who enjoyed movies like speed this film is for all you I enjoyed it and found it well worth the price of admission fasting your seat belts Unstoppable a 95 minute till ride from director Tony Scott delivers the right level of adrenaline unfortunately the sheer acceleration is dampened Summer by end over the lines upon action to your stuck situations and characters so when the production concentrates on the action which includes dangerous activities and a Race Against Time Unstoppable Deliverance somehow however the incorporation of glitched Back stories for key characters fractious relationship between the protagonists and and unnecessary how elements left from the unscreened actors handbook provide moments of unwelcoming unnecessary annoyance it's a difficult thing to cut off the motion picture in which bad guy is a runaway trained there is no way to put a human face on the antagonist it's so Less in uncaring the central struggle is therefore more impersonal so some movies of this ilk are assembled better than others but the crutches filmmakers rely upon in these circumstances are often not so as effective as they might wish so Unstoppable reminds me of Twister although it's fractionally fractionally more suspenseful and considerably less cheesy still it implies a continued conflict between the protagonists and Toes in a human opponent rather than having faith that the story stripped to its Essentials can stand on its own we don't need to know that will Carlson is fighting a restraining order filled by his wife in order to appreciate the chances he takes so we don't need to understand that the love of his two daughters is what motivates Frank Barnes to risk his life the initial background between the two characters does not make their eventual cooperation more meaningful and the husbands go Kevin Dunn is reduced to irrelevancy by a big very big very fast moving train Unstoppable is inspired by true airing switches technically accurate statement although considerable license has been taken to amplify the tensioning make the situation more cinematic the historic bases offer Unstoppable is a May 15 2001 instant incident in which an unmanned CSX trained become a runaway covering 66 miles in Ohio in under two hours before being stopped in a manner similar to what is depicted in the movie May many of the specifics how the train ended up under power without anyone on board so how the police reacted and what the railway operators did to minimize injuries and damage so reflect what happened in the real world the characters however are completely made up will is a rookie and Frank as a veteran and therein lies the colonel of their Mutual disdain so will doesn't like being looked down upon for his inexperience Frank is annoyed because the company is bringing on board low paid and inexperienced workers to replace lifers like him why these two are in the getting to know you face off their relationship bad things are happening all the way around the main line a series of mishaps and errors results in an unmanned chain living it's stationed in accelerating to an alarming speed so at first it's thought to be a coaster that can be easily overtaken and stopped so it doesn't take long however for train dispatcher Connie Hooper to realize the train is not only under power but is rushing headline into a heavily populated area and that several of the cars are filled with toxic flammable chemicals so we'll then drink our on a kalism course with the train and if they can survive their game of chicken they may be the only hope of stopping it before it heads for certain drill mint in the midst of a peninsula peninsulania city with the population of 750 000 people the Tony Scott who is arguably one of the most uneven action trailer directors working today is at the top of his game for this movie so he keeps the visual flourishes to a minimum and realize sparingly on handheld shots the film's look is clean and almost classical with round frame shots and not a lot of quick cutting some visual variety as provided by incorporating local new cars footage Scott frequently films the chain from in France and Below enhancing its Minas in the sound effects made it make it sound like an angry Beast as it Roars past the situation is carefully explained so it becomes clear there's products take then the lives of two men so at times Unstoppable plays like an inverted speed with the Mandate of getting the train speed below a threshold to avoid disaster so it's almost impossible to write about a runaway train movie without mentioning Andre konchalowski 1985 Thriller runaway train the two films are actually quite different with runaway chain focusing on escaping and embedding disaster while this one is about averting it nevertheless the clock is ticking in both narratives and level of suspense ramps of the closers in your come to the point of no return Scott smart liquid use sometimes short and avoids spending too much time on the distracting so made up backstories and character interaction Unstoppable is about racing to cheat disaster and for the most part there that's where the filmmakers keep the focus the goal is to alleviate the heart rate and produce a few nail marks on armists because it achieves that it's easy to forgive the occasional guitar to be cinematic scrap pile of stock parts to plug certain narrative holes so Denzel Washington named Chris Pine are confident and relaxed in these roles embodying all that that's necessary for working class hero so name recognition is an important reason for their casting but their presence is in identification with the characters ultimately in the face of the of some power of half my long train battling along at 70 miles per hour the efforts of two men seems a paltry thing and it's the combined sense of heroism and Desperation with high stakes that offers Unstoppable at least a chance of fulfilling the promise of its name at the box office the flight strain pulls out of a sighting with no engineer on board and accelerates to 70 miles per hour and you see how Tony Scott's Unstoppable gets its title the movie then as a Relentless as the train slowly Gathering momentum before the Relentless final R of continuous suspense in terms of sheer craft mainship this is a superb fill the trouble begins when an engineer This months after thinking he had brought the chain to a Full Stop he hasn't when he sees the train slowly pulling away the look on his face is adequate to fuel the next several minutes so at first it's assumed that the train is a coaster but no like it's under Full Throttle Scott tells the story from several points of view in the cap of another train a long time engineer named Barnes was breaking in a new man Carlson so in the station yard a yard master named Connie Hooper is in charge of dispatching operations so in the real roads Corporate Offices an executive is concerned mostly about the cost of losing the train which seems harsh since it is caring hazards materials and his rocketting State toward the hurt of scantal PA overhead news Chopper Circle providing a live TV feed that Scott intricates with the action that allows him a possible way to provide an overview in read the action a similar device was used by his brother Ridley Scott to help us follow events in his back heart now so there isn't a lot of room here for personality development about Washington and pine provide convincing character the Western driven by love of his job the new guy moved Stanley Cup this conflict isn't tramped up for the dramatic effect in the screenplay by Mark palmbeck but is allowed to play out as naturally as it can under the circumstances Rosario Dawson makes her dispatcher aggressively competent and the hurtling train of course rumbles beneath everything so change scenes involving chains have in unavoidable limit so chains require tax and can only go forward or in Reverse though there are sidings but cutting one to one may not be very simple so two other films that come to mind are Buster ketones the yendra Runway train which won Oscar nominations for the two men in its locomotive John White tane Eric Roberts how Scott deals with his cheese is not for me to reveal here but although the possibilities of two chains on one track would seem to be limited he and bomb back are truly in yenyas they employ a kind of logical little thinking so the chains can move only in 13 ways but those ways may not be as our previous hours with you so note that those are terms we are thinking of during the action the photography and sound here are very effective in establishing that a train is an nervously habiting and once in motion wants to continue we knew that but Scott our butt crushes as the weight of the juggernaut we are Spellbound and we sure hope those little kids are saved the power of trains and the terror of one getting out of control as both something real ain't a metaphor for Modern Life where subjects of great Fascination for writers of the Victorian era Dickens himself survived a major real disaster and went on to write the horrific host Story the single man Zola's labete Humane is set in the real world and ends with a runaway chain taking its passengers to their deaths the cinema picked up this preoccupation and Tony Scott's Unstoppable a White Knuckle trailer is in a tradition that includes Bernard warhol's British B-movie classic the last journey in which Godfrey Tyrrell Goldsboro circle diamond Express locomotive in the west country and the Hollywood runaway train scripted by Akira kurosova and shown in competition as kings in 1986. so Scott's picture is set in Rust Belt peninsulania and is a tribute to blue-collar Americans that stars Danville Washington air as a 25-year veteran diver about to be laid off with half his benefits and Chris Pine as an inexperienced conductor who risked their lives to slow down or divert a driverless train pulling a load off trucks as long as the Chrysler Building containing toxic highly combustible material it's predictable but plausible and exciting but live TV coverage of the impending disaster is cleverly used to make technical matters lose it and the brilliant sound added again essential part of the experience should be a shoe in foreign biggest trucks and diggers comes with what its publisher describes as an action-packed 30 minute DVD so children can watch their favorite machines at work digging howling and dumping although it clocks an app 68 minutes longer end features Big Trains instead of big trucks along with a Long Hall starring Denzel Washington Unstoppable the largest from Tony Scott brings to mind those popular PV entertainments that allow gangsters to explore the world of backhaul back holes and soil compactors or as big bigger and biggest promises the biggest machines in action Mr Scott directs some of the biggest action machines in Hollywood somewhere Mr Washington a some 13 certainly more entertaining than a hydraulicator the two men have made five movies together including this new one which suggests that the they have developed a camera ID along with a print and apparent fondness for trains last year Mr Washington starred in Mr Scott's remake of The Taking of Fallon one two three as an optical crowded Subway dispatcher who redeems himself by taking down John travel tasked hijacker so the Remake didn't have the great or graffiti of the 1974 original but it had its Pleasures including The Odd Couple harmonizing of Mr Washington's abbrev starginess with Mr tavoltas Flamboyant villainy Mr Washington himself excels at playing dangerous men but it in Mr Scott's film he plays men off conscience such is the case in Unstoppable with the volume turned down he portrays the cow seemingly unremarkable Frank Barnes a western engineer who's been making runs on Rust Belt tracks for three decades so Frank is lost a character than a collection of bits and pieces pointing to an idea of character he wears reading glasses he has a pair of daughters he openly doors he's a pragmatism pragmatist he's also borrowed though this is probably thanks to the hair stylist mentioned in the credits so the movie opens on the day Frank finds himself partnered with a new conductor will Carlson a hot head with a strange VP wife in the kind of over inflated bad attitude that in the movies sometimes need to be taken to the Woodshed by the weapon African-American male actor so oftentimes that actor is Morgan Freeman no practically those duties fall to Mr Washington Mr Piner find emerging screen Talent easily holds your attention with that bad attitude and those near translucent blue eyes so this isn't a small thing given the dominating fool sitting next to him like a magisterial Buddha in the cramped space the sheriff are much of the movie Unstoppable which was written by Mark Bombeck comes with the pledge of authenticity that the story was inspired by actual events though the names have been changed and so forth the inspiration was a 47 character in that in May 2001 took the cross over here for some 65 miles without any human guidance so at Chinese clock in 45 miles an hour many of the cars were MTR carrying fried like cable but their love hazardous material abroad too as in the fictional version the movie borrows some other true life details but news reports of the event are no match for the Nutty kinetic entertainment of the on-screen interpretation so Mr Scott is partial to blend rapid Cuts ripping pants and saturated colors he likes twirling the camera around characters like a sugared up thought running 360s on the playground a hyperactive visual style that can turn the screen into a blur of pulsating color here working with the cinematographer Ben saracen and some is sound technicians he creates an unexpectedly ritual of chugging rushing twins slicing cross equally beautiful industrial aimed natural landscapes so there is something mesmerizing about these dreams and the men who run them something nostalgic too but they seem like history machines summoning up a pastlet and also imagined as in for starters the Great Dane robbery North by Northwest in speed Unstoppable Unstoppable doesn't belong in that company it its story is largely forgettable and it's Pleasant transitory limited to the actors and to its moments of beauty and strange comedy at one point in an attempt to hit an emergency stop button the police actually shoot at the train firing in frenzied fertility so it's as if they were trying to down the dragon with pea shooters so it's a ridiculous image openly laughable yet it's the kind of outrageous excessive flourish that can make Mr Scott's work as so enjoyable in the moment he doesn't do much but with a handful of appealing actors in tall he sure keeps that machine going attained child leave a giant locomotive and maintain Gathering terrifying moments so when all else feels it's down to old time driver Frank Barnes and his green horn conductor will Carlson to mount a seemingly impossible res QB Tony Scott's new film is inspired by real events but don't let that put you off this is a film about ranavi train shot with a battalion Battalion of runaway cameras in a case of what Scott might consider turbocharged ready real reports have never looked so much a chick a muscular Marlboro main backdrop shimmering in absurdly perfect winter light sure there is numerous rumors of Trot beneath the clanking matter of high concept a chain with no driver or period of toxic chemicals and a brake less huddling to populated regions of low peninsulin but Scott the younger hats pursued every microsecond of big bond moviness from the proposition in other words we sense Denzel Washington and Captain Kirk in heart Pursuit it is required then they be a mismatched pair each hiding afar to offer the ghost of subplots to a singular mission sorry we don't train Yoda Washington is being sidelined too old to cut it patolin conductor care car has a marriage on the Rocks so mutual distrust will give the two Stick it to the system defines Bruce Springsteen lyrics in thick rings and checked shots so from the opening scenes of weary men setting out Firework the film feels in Shore Hands their chemistry is so much better than formula patter wrestling with Washington's Grand dealer coint laughter Pines brittle veneer and the script so regardless mix of grainy real speak and Earthly man domains on age my age and having your daughters do shifts at Hooters so make no mistake it's a disaster movie like totally known tax there is nowhere else to go but down that line and not none of speeds cocktail shifted off romance Thriller and Disaster Movie parody even if Hot controlled Rosario doesn't Frets into her mic so taking plaque from the superiors who just wants to save the share price led by David Dunn's purse lip suit the boss's lunch their own bound to feel rescue attempts leaving it to our boys Gruff with heroism to charge down the local logo in their own engine hook it up and apply the brakes in a blizzard of heavily Sparks whatever CG glue has been used to check the impossible the film has a definitely real world presence what is it about chains and movies that fits so well you would greet this as a heavy metal rebooter of the general a cold country western where the frontier Spirit can get out flying the Khaki techno brats as Scott weaves in Fox network updates as a Greek Charles of Chris devils the actual earrings play as a him to hard one experience the Top Gun Watson who possibly views himself as an old-timer fending off a new breed of flash Harry still has a Sublime gift for friend serenading The Brute Hulk of American machines whole school can still win the day based on a real life Runway train accident in talido Ohio on 15 by 2001. Unstoppable is a thrilling movie full of high-powered action and nail beating suspense on that fateful day in my 1447 car CSX locomotive left a Toledo Ohio real job without an engineer and wasn't stopped until it had runs for six to six miles through three countries for the film the area has been changed to Pennsylvania names have been changed but the story remains full of drama and real life poachers Frank Barnes is a 28-year veteran of the real root industry ain't widowed father of two teenage daughters so on a work day that starts out just like any other Frank finds himself teamed with a new tiny named will Carlson who has his own life issues so the relationship starts out strained as both men attempt to find their ground with one another but soon a much bigger issue starts to loom over their lives so Frank and wills trainees are on the same main tag as an unmanned run away train which is headed toward the highly populated area of Stanton the Escape strain effectively the length of a skyscraper is traveling at break deck speeds has no air brakes and is carrying multiple fried Cars full of Hazard chemicals which is which are destined to explore if drailed so after two failed attempts from corporate are made to stop the speeding train and the loss of his best friend who tries to stop the death missile during those attempt Frank takes matters into his own hands with support from yard Master Connie Hooper the woman at the monitors and controls of all the times in their part of the state Frank ain't will decide it's up to them to stop the warp speed train using their own indianity by latching on to it reform behind a risky and just defined concept on its own so action-packed from start to finish we are involved in ubiquity three-dimensional way as we ride along with Frank and will raising the Clark hours they chase down that one million tons of seemingly Unstoppable steel every movement of this film is spent on compelling drama entering energy as the characters were mentally risk their lives to save won't lack others your loved ones watching in harder while the media plaster's rescue mission on National Television Unstoppable is a rated PG-13 for sequences of action in parallel and some language I believe it is it to be correct in caution so parents to be prepared through making their families subject to high power and very realistic scene of death near death blood injury and perils there is a scene where a character gets there is a scene where a character gets his foot clamped between two real cars there is also a scene where character is thrown into the glass or in Shield off a speeding train there are several scenes where cars are cached and blown up and one scene where a speeding locomotive is blown up in a battle of fire and a character is killed in the process so this film is dedicated from the fall scenes to the Finish to getting the viewer involved on a very vividing extremely realistic level and if you are riding the reels right along with its characters if parents feel their 13 year olds and especially younger children cannot take this type of experience be advised on the other hand this film is an excellent portrait of human beings who are willing to sacrifice their lives to save other lives on a crank scale it shows bravely unselfishness and great love on the part of the main characteristics as well as others on the sidelines so it is a wonderful example of forgiveness and pure Valor hey I'm happy to note the end is a happy one although some may feel it contribute we must keep in mind the script was based on a real life event in that in itself proves that we do not do have positive outcomes in the face of insurmountable odds in our very real world so it underscores the fortitude and resolution of the human spirit for anyone who enjoyed movies like speed this film is for audio I enjoyed it and found it well worth the price of Animation fasting your seat belts Unstoppable a 95 minute till ride from director Tony Scott delivers the right level of adrenaline unfortunately the sure acceleration is dampened somewhat by an overall lines upon action to learn stock situations and collectors so in the production concentrates on the action which includes dangerous activities and a race against trying Unstoppable Deliverance somehowever the incorporation of glitched Back stories were key characters fractious relationship between the protagonists and an unnecessary villain I have elements lifted from the unscreened actors handbook provide moments of unwelcome and unnecessary annoyance it's a difficult thing to craft a motion picture in which bad guy is run away trained there is no way to put a human face on the antagonist it's so let's say an uncaring the central struggle is therefore lowering personal so some movies of this ilk are assembled better than others but the crutches filmmakers rely upon in these circumstances are often not so as effective as they might wish so Unstoppable reminds me of Twister although it's fractionalized fractionally more suspenseful and considerably less cheesy still it implies a conceived conflict between the protagonists and Toes in a human opinion rather than having faith that the story stripped to its Essentials can stand on its own we don't need to know that will Carlson is fighting a restraining order filled by his wife in order to appreciate the chances he takes so we don't need to understand that the love of his two daughters is what motivates Frank Barnes to risk his life the initial big train between the two characters does not make the eventual cooperation more meaningful and as well let's go Cabin done is reduced to irrelevancy by a big very big very fast moving train Unstoppable is inspired by true aiming switches technically a curate statement although considerable license has been taken to amplify the tension and make the situation more cinematic the historic business offer Unstoppable is a May 15 2001 instant incident in which an unmanned CSX Chain became a runaway covering 66 miles in Ohio in under two hours before being stopped in a manner similar to what is depicted in the movie May many of the specifics how the train ended up under power without anyone on board so how the police reacted and what they will be operators did to minimize injuries and damage so reflect what happened in the real world the characters however are completely made up will is aruki and Frank as a veteran and therein lies the kernel of their Mutual disdain so will doesn't like being looked down upon for his inexperience Frank is annoyed because the company is bringing on board low paid and inexperienced workers to replace lifers like him right these two are in the getting to know you face off their relationship bad things are happening Elsewhere on the main line a series of mishaps and errors results in an unmanned chain living it's stationed in accelerating to an alarming speed so at first it's thought to be a coaster that can be easily overtaken and stopped so it doesn't take long however for train dispatcher Connie Hooper to realize the train is not only under power but is rushing headline into a heavily populated area and that several of the cars are filled with toxic flammable chemicals so we'll then track are on a kalism course with the chain a if they can survive their game of chicken they may be the only hope of stopping it before it heads for certain drailment in the midst of a peninsula Peninsula city with a population of 750 000 people so Donnie Scott who is arguably one of the most and even action trailer directors working today is at the top of his game for this movie so he keeps the visual flourishes to a minimum and relies sparingly on handheld shots the film's look is clean and almost tactical with valve frame shots and not a lot of quick cutting some visual variety as provided by incorporating local new cars footage Scott frequently films the chain from in friends and Below enhancing its Minas in the sound effects made it make it sound like an angry Beast as it Roars past the situation is carefully explained so it becomes clear then the lives of two men so at times Unstoppable plays like an inverted speed with the Mandate of getting the train speed below a threshold to avoid disaster so it's almost impossible to write about a runaway train movie without mentioning Andrei konchalowski 1985 Thriller runaway train the two films are actually quite different with runaway chain focusing on escaping and impacting disaster while this one is about averting it nevertheless the clock is ticking in both narratives and level of suspense ramps of the closer thing ever come to the point of no return Scott smartly keeps Learning Time short and avoids spending too much time on the distracting so made up backstories and character interaction Unstoppable is about racing to cheat disaster and for the most part there that's where the filmmakers keep the focus the goal is to elevate the heart rate and produce a few little marks on armists because it achieves that it's easy to forgive the occasional guitar to be cinematic scrap pile of stock parts to plug in certain narrative holes so Denzel Washington and his spine are confident and relaxed in these roles embodying all that that's necessary for working class hero so name recognition is an important reason for their casting but their peasants AIDS in identification with the characters ultimately in the face of the awesome power of half my long chain battling along at 70 miles per hour the app efforts of two men seems a paltry thing and it's the combined sense of heroism and Desperation with high stakes that offers Unstoppable at least a chance of fulfilling the promise of its name at the box office