Product description
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2
(Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.
Denzel Washington and STAR TREK's Chris Pine star in this action
thriller from director Tony Scott. The plot surrounds two
locomotive operators who team up to stop a runaway train filled
with explosives. DIE HARD 4.0's Mark Bomback provides the script
for the 20th Century Fox production, co-starring Rosario Dawson.
Orson Welles once said that directing a movie was like playing
with the greatest toy train set in the world, and Tony Scott
seems to be taking him literally. With the caboose of Scott's
Taking of Pelham 123 barely in the distance, the filmmaker turned
to Unstoppable, a train-chase picture loosely inspired by a true
story (and perhaps just a smidgen by Runaway Train, the 1985 film
based on an Akira Kurosawa script). At a Pennsylvania rail yard,
some clueless workers let an unmanned train get loose, and the
thing is soon hurtling across the countryside. Did we mention
that it's pulling a few cars' worth of highly toxic material? Did
you doubt it would be? Meanwhile, old-time engineer Denzel
Washington and new conductor Chris Pine are making a routine run
nearby--of course, in the movies, a routine run almost always
turns into something wild. 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 s,
stunts enty. 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 undeniably better than
Pelham 123.--Robert Horton
.co.uk Review
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Orson Welles once said that directing a movie was like playing
with the greatest toy train set in the world, and Tony Scott
seems to be taking him literally. With the caboose of Scott's
Taking of Pelham 123 barely in the distance, the filmmaker turned
to Unstoppable, a train-chase picture loosely inspired by a true
story (and perhaps just a smidgen by Runaway Train, the 1985 film
based on an Akira Kurosawa script). At a Pennsylvania rail yard,
some clueless workers let an unmanned train get loose, and the
thing is soon hurtling across the countryside. Did we mention
that it's pulling a few cars' worth of highly toxic material? Did
you doubt it would be? Meanwhile, old-time engineer Denzel
Washington and new conductor Chris Pine are making a routine run
nearby--of course, in the movies, a routine run almost always
turns into something wild. 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 s,
stunts enty. 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 undeniably better than
Pelham 123.--Robert Horton