Monday, February 7, 2011

'Unstoppable' Movie Review

By Chris Smith


Fox released their new drama,action movie titled "Unstoppable" into theaters about 2 months ago. I just checked it out,and must say that it was an absolutely great movie.

I liked this entire movie from beginning to end. It delivered a lot of "edge of your seat" scenes,along with high drama and action. The flick stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson,and Kevin Chapman.

"Unstoppable" is based on actual events and centered around veteran train engineer Frank (Washington) and a young conductor named Will (Pine). They start off with a bumpy relationship as Frank is a bit upset that they're giving all the good jobs to the new younger guys. Eventually, they manage to get along well enough to get the train moving on its course.

Dewey who is an irresponsible train driver decides to hop off the train he's in while it's still moving so he can pull a switch. The train gets away from him while the air breaks are detached and the controls are set to full throttle. Railroad controller Connie is quickly made aware of the problem,and makes phone calls to set some stops in place.

However, the train picks up too much speed for the stops to work. Corporate ignores Connie's advice to derail the train before it makes its way to dangerous,crowded town areas. They end up trying to slow it down from the front. Unfortunately, that fails to work,and the train starts heading for a major disaster.

Will and Frank end up deciding to go after the unmanned train on their own. They try to stop it from the back with a single car train. However, after a huge effort to attach themselves to the train,they realize that it has way too much power for them to stop it.

They both end up climbing over train cars,pull the breaks on all the cars individually,and make their way to front to stop the train,which was full of highly flammable explosives. They were also being covered by tons of TV news stations. I really enjoyed this movie.

The film was quite simple and to the point. The dangerous train,full of explosives, was on the loose,and they needed to stop it. They were able to do it with "edge of your seat" action with a great storyline that left me saying, "Whoa, that was cool." I gave this movie an A+ grade for sure.




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