Monday, February 7, 2011

'Unstoppable' Movie Review

By Chris Smith


'Unstoppable' action/drama movie was recently released into theaters by 20th Century Fox two months ago. I finally got to watch it,and must say that it was a very,very good 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.

Frank and Will decide to go after the train by attaching and stopping it from the back with a single car train. After an intense effort to attach themselves to the train,they realize that it has too much power for them to stop it,and that's when the real fun,action begins.

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.

Unstoppable was pretty simple and to the point. A very dangerous high speed train was loose,and they needed to stop it by any means necessary. They stopped it in a crazy, intense plot that left me thinking, "Wow, that was awesome." I gave this movie an A+ all the way.




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