Unstoppable
Hang on for the ride of your life as Oscar® Winner Denzel Washington and Chris Pine (Star Trek) team up for the year’s most electrifying action-thriller. A run off teach, 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 have a crack to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster. Helmed by visionary director Tony Scott (Man on Fire), this tale inspired by right events delivers excitement and suspense that are — unstoppable! Orson Welles once said that directing a movie was like playing with the utmost toy teach set in the world, and Tony Scott seems to be taking him literally. With the caboose of Scott’s Taking of Pelham 123 barely in the distance, the filmmaker turned to Unstoppable, a teach-chase picture loosely inspired by a right tale (and perhaps just a smidgen by Run off Teach, the 1985 film based on an Akira Kurosawa script). At a Pennsylvania rail yard, some clueless workers let an unmanned teach get loose, and the thing is soon hurtling across the countryside. Did we bring up that it’s pulling a few cars’ worth of highly toxic material? Did you doubt it would be? Meanwhile, ancient-time engineer Denzel Washington and new conductor Chris Pine are making a normal run close–of course, in the movies, a normal run nearly always turns into something wild. This odd couple is the only hope for stopping the run off, while upper management dithers and an operations-room dispatcher (Rosario Dawson) spends most of the movie talking into her headset. Scott is an unabashed manipulator, and he yanks all the strings at his disposal for this whipped-up pageant: song cues, hype-filled reaction shots, stunts aplenty. It’s all so aggressive, it makes you wish the exciting tale could be allowed to tell itself. But the pulse does get quicker, if you can turn your mind off for a while. And although it’s faint praise, the movie is undeniably better than Pelham 123. –Robert Horton
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