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.

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