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Seen on: 05/06/2011

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Unstoppable (2010)

Directed by Tony Scott

Action | Thriller

Most recently watched by jenerator, sensoria, noahphex, jenerator

Overview

A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania,  and proves to be unstoppable until a veteran engineer and young conductor risk their lives to try and stop it with a switch engine.

Rated PG-13 | Length 98 minutes

Actors

Ethan Suplee | Kevin Chapman | Denzel Washington | Rosario Dawson | Bud Davis | Kevin Dunn | Kevin Corrigan | Jessy Schram | Tom Stoviak | Bill Laing | Lew Temple | David Warshofsky | T.J. Miller | Richard Pelzman | Chris Pine | Christopher Lee Philips | Chase Ellison | Jeff Wincott | L. Derek Leonidoff | Kevin McClatchy | Elizabeth Mathis | Andy Umberger | Meagan Tandy | Dylan Bruce | Charles Van Eman | Jeff Hochendoner | Dihlon McManne | Joe Coyle | Matthew J. Cates | Carla Bianco | Ryan Ahern | Adrienne Wehr | Jason McCune | Scott A. Martin | Patrick McDade | Aisha Hinds | Warren Sweeney | Joshua Elijah Reese | Stephen Monroe Taylor | Toni Saladna | Rick Chambers | Rebecca Harris | David Flick | Keith Michael Gregory | Jarrod DiGiorgi | Heather Morgan Leigh | Lissa Brennan | Barry Ben Sr. | Mike Clark

Viewing Notes

I’ll give Tony Scott this, he knows how to ramp up the fake tension via hokey, bullshit means that probably plays well with the uneducated masses. And I don’t mean that as an insult to the average moviegoer.

I’m not a big Tony Scott fan, though I will say Unstoppable was better than I thought it was going to be (not too hard, since I was expecting total shit).

Still, the obvious stupidity on display kills it for me. A movie where a town being evacuated means the evacuation route is right next to the tracks for the runaway train; and where clearing an area because the runaway train may crash causing a huge catastrophe means law enforcement stage themselves about 100 feet away, are not good movies in this day and age.

That’s the fake tension. Cram a bunch of shit into the frame, crowd it with people and things going on, and whammo, drama!

While the camera work here wasn’t nearly as frenetic as, say, Domino, it’s still crazy, with TONS of shots from moving helicopters.

The other way a Tony Scott film produces fake tension is through editing. I don’t think there was a single shot that was longer than five seconds. Seriously.

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