Unstoppable
November 21, 2010
Tony Scott, Denzel Washington, and a train.Anyone seen this before?
Director Tony Scott and actor Denzel Washington have made a couple of movies in their partnership.Scott directed and Denzel starred in the action thriller "Man on Fire", which received mostly mixed, if not bad reviews.Then they teamed up to make "The Taking of Pelham 123", which also didn't do great with the critics.They've made 5 films so far but I just wanted to name the ones I knew.Now they team up for a movie that's actually based off a true story about an unmanned runaway train that passed through 3 countries.No one was injured in the actual event, but Scott obviously is trying to make an action movie that's both chaotic and destructive, so you can expect a couple of people who get injured here.The film itself is actually a pretty entertaining action movie that pays respect to the actual story without going too over-the-top with itself.Tony Scott's film is clever, sometimes funny, action packed, suspenseful at times, and well acted like any action movie should be.The chemistry between Denzel Washington and Chris Pine makes for a pretty interesting and entertaining relationship that Tony Scott knows how to make in movies like this and "Pelham 123".What makes the movie work as a thriller and not just an action movie is the suspense and action the director manages to craft in.Most of the suspense happens in the last 10 to 15 minutes of the movie, but it somehow made me cringe at wondering if these certain characters would survive and if they could stop the train.
"Unstoppable" is a loud and relentless movie, so those with sensitive hearing and steady nerves should go take yourself anywhere else but at the movies watching films about fast trains.Everyone else will have a great time watching the train wreak things and Denzel Washington and Chris Pine work together to try to save the day before the train wrecks a certain city.With a running time of 98 minutes, let's be glad it wasn't near 110.Seeing a train cause chaos for 2 hours could be kinda tiring, but the director moves things at a steady pace and never lets the movie seem too long or too short, even if the movie drags in one or two places.
Grade: B+
Director Tony Scott and actor Denzel Washington have made a couple of movies in their partnership.Scott directed and Denzel starred in the action thriller "Man on Fire", which received mostly mixed, if not bad reviews.Then they teamed up to make "The Taking of Pelham 123", which also didn't do great with the critics.They've made 5 films so far but I just wanted to name the ones I knew.Now they team up for a movie that's actually based off a true story about an unmanned runaway train that passed through 3 countries.No one was injured in the actual event, but Scott obviously is trying to make an action movie that's both chaotic and destructive, so you can expect a couple of people who get injured here.The film itself is actually a pretty entertaining action movie that pays respect to the actual story without going too over-the-top with itself.Tony Scott's film is clever, sometimes funny, action packed, suspenseful at times, and well acted like any action movie should be.The chemistry between Denzel Washington and Chris Pine makes for a pretty interesting and entertaining relationship that Tony Scott knows how to make in movies like this and "Pelham 123".What makes the movie work as a thriller and not just an action movie is the suspense and action the director manages to craft in.Most of the suspense happens in the last 10 to 15 minutes of the movie, but it somehow made me cringe at wondering if these certain characters would survive and if they could stop the train.
"Unstoppable" is a loud and relentless movie, so those with sensitive hearing and steady nerves should go take yourself anywhere else but at the movies watching films about fast trains.Everyone else will have a great time watching the train wreak things and Denzel Washington and Chris Pine work together to try to save the day before the train wrecks a certain city.With a running time of 98 minutes, let's be glad it wasn't near 110.Seeing a train cause chaos for 2 hours could be kinda tiring, but the director moves things at a steady pace and never lets the movie seem too long or too short, even if the movie drags in one or two places.
Grade: B+
Posted by Tyler Kirk.
