Unstoppable 2010 fzmovies11/26/2022 ![]() The story by Mark Bomback had time to dwell fleetingly between workers protected by a union and those who aren't and standing to lose a bunch of benefits when they get the pink slip, and the fight between youthful energy and what practical, technical experience can bring to the table. It seems Tony hasn't had enough of playing with trains yet with his last film being a remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, and here he reunites with leading actor Denzel Washington third feature in a row after Deja Vu and the aforementioned! who decided that it's probably more fun at the helm of a locomotive engine as an engineer, than coordinating efforts from inside a control centre, a job that falls onto the lap of Rosario Dawson's Connie, who provides that tension filled perspective from within the confines of the control room being the liaison between her troops on the ground, and the board room bureaucracy.Lending additional eye candy is Chris Pine, who drops his Captain Kirk swagger to play a unionized train conductor, who provides some dramatic gravitas in being the new kid on the block with plenty of baggage, both emotionally through his battle against a restraining order from his wife and kid, and professionally deemed as some kind of a white horse riding on his last name, coming in to replace a bunch of experienced veterans at their game. We get plenty of screen time demonstrating just how mean this monstrosity of a train is, especially when it growls and rumbles loudly through the sense-surround audio in a decent cinema hall.The film wastes no time setting up the blame game on those responsible for the debacle, and Tony Scott does what Tony Scott does best, weaving the material in his usual break neck pace of quick edits and cuts in presenting a film that, like a train, is set on reaching its destination on time in unrelenting speed, which worked surprisingly well at keeping you at the edge of your seat as events unfold. For dramatic cinema this culminates to the train pulverizing everything thrown in its path in attempts to make it stop, even at the expense of a derailment plan costing millions of dollars in direct and indirect damages to people, property and the environment. "Crazy Eights" where a freight train, through the carelessness of man, gets to roll off along its tracks carrying too many cars and too much hazardous material, posing a danger to residents in towns that lie in its inevitable path, with the brakes off and the power on. ![]()
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