Unstoppable [Blu-ray]Expect
to see only the exceptional and splendid performance right here on this
blockbuster film that was directed by Tony Scott who is not a stranger
to directing A+ class films. The cherry on top for watching this action
thriller film is that is inspired by a true story (and perhaps just a
smidgen by
Runaway Train,
the 1985 film based on an Akira Kurosawa script) which is definitely
worth watching. The film was released in the United States and Canada on
November 12, 2010, and in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2010. It
received mostly favorable reviews from film critics; it garnered a
"Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based upon aggregated
reviews and a rating of "Generally favorable reviews" at Metacritic. The
film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at the
83rd Academy Awards. The familiar faces you will come across in this
film are the academy award winning actor
Denzel Washington
who portrays exceptional the role of as Frank Barnes, a veteran
railroad engineer, together with Chris Pine as Will Colson, a young
train conductor. Within this electrifying film you will see a pair of
workers who are working in the rail yard within the northern
Pennsylvania town of Fuller for the Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad
(AWVR), Dewey (Ethan Suplee) and Gilleece (T.J. Miller) are ordered to
move a freight train off its current track to make way for an excursion
train carrying schoolchildren. Dewey tells Gilleece not to connect the
locomotive's air hose to save time; he does this knowing that the
train's air brakes will be disabled on everything behind the lead
locomotive in this configuration, but resolves to connect the hoses
after p-arking the train on another track. Dewey begins moving the train
through the yard, but sees that an approaching switch is not set to the
right track. Against Gilleece's advice, Dewey jumps down to line the
switch properly, while the independent brake and throttle/dynamic brake
levers in the cab, unattended, fall of their own accord to 0% and full
throttle, respectively. The train picks up speed, and Dewey is
unsuccessful in his attempts to reboard. It leaves the yard and enters
the main line unmanned.
Meanwhile, Will Colson (Chris Pine), a
newly-hired conductor for AWVR, is partnered with veteran engineer Frank
Barnes (Denzel Washington). Barnes and Colson meet in the southern
Pennsylvania city of Brewster, where Barnes, a 28-year employee, finds
out that Colson, who will be in charge of the train, is only four months
out of training. They take their locomotive out to a zinc plant in the
city of Stanton where they will attach their train for the day, where,
after Colson makes the mistake of picking up too many cars, they head
north on the main line towards Fuller. This odd couple is the only hope
for stopping the runaway, 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 story could be allowed to
tell itself. But the pulse does quicken, if you can turn your mind off
for a while.
And although it's faint praise, the movie is
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