Unable to reverse their load to return the cars, they start out for their destination along the main line in the opposing direction to the unmanned train.
#UNSTOPPABLE MOVIE RATING UPDATE#
Colson, distracted by phone calls that update his ongoing appeal to the restraining order placed against him by his wife, by mistake attaches too many cars. Barnes and Colson take their locomotive out to Southern Pennsylvania city of Stanton, where they pick up their train for the day. It is revealed later that Barnes is one of the men made redundant. Colson, on arrival, is met with ridicule from Barnes' veteran colleague, who reveals his despise for rookie conductors, who are brought in on lower salaries to replace the more experienced veterans, who are subsequently laid off. Newly hired, and only four months out of training, he is partnered with veteran engineer Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington). This also marks the first day of Will Colson's (Chris Pine) career at AWVR.
The train picks up speed, his attempts to re-board are unsuccessful and the train takes off along the Pennsylvania main line. When he discovers that an approaching switch is not set to the right track, he disembarks the lead locomotive to switch it by hand, but the levers inside the lead car switch from idle on their own accord. When they are instructed to move the train off it's current track to make room for a train carrying a class of school children on an excursion, one of the engineers (Ethan Suplee) irresponsibly decides not to connect the locomotives air hose to save time, leaving the lone control of the air brakes within the lead locomotive.
The drama in Unstoppable ensues after a pair of negligent railway engineers, working for the Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad (AWVR), loses control of a freight train and allow it to enter the main line unmanned. I can't imagine anyone feeling such a way throughout Man on Fire or Pelham. But here with Unstoppable, Scott has completed an astonishing technical feat for one, and transformed a very thin screenplay based on the actual events of the CSX 8888 incident in Ohio into an a frenetic, edge-of-your seat train pursuit that leaves you clutching the sides of your chair out of suspense, and leaving the cinema beaming. Denzel, with the exception of Ridley Scott's epic American Gangster in 2007, hasn't been involved in a good film since he won his second Oscar for Training Day in 2001. I guess he did direct True Romance back in 1993. Well, it's a stretch to say that Scott's career was ever on a high. Having said that, this is certainly no masterpiece, but a highlight in the recent careers of both Scott and Washington, who have nose-dived in the last decade. With the preceding works including Man on Fire (2004), Deja Vu (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009), this is by far the best. Why I say standard action flick, is because there are going to be attempts mid way through the film to stop this runaway train, but because this plot is focused on the train and it being on the run, you know these attempts are more then likely going to fail.Unstoppable is the fourth film in the last seven years featuring a working collaboration between director Tony Scott and actor Denzel Washington.
You know the premise, you know there will be tense moments and you know that are only two real possible outcomes.
Unstoppable is what I would define as a standard action flick. After rail workers lose control of a train and it begins barrelling down on rural towns in Southern Pennsylvania veteran rail worker Frank Barnes and Rookie Will Colson are the last hope in tracking it down before it destroys towns and becomes the biggest tragedy in rail history.
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