This Scott's final film in the director's chair Unstoppable (2010) is set in Pennsylvania , there one careless engineer (Ethan Suplee) is maneuvering a train in the yard . Then he leaves negligently the train operating without the pneumatic brakes engaged and it results the freighting transport stands unmanned . As the out-of-control train with no brakes and nobody driving puts a veteran engineer called Frank (Denzel Washington) and his young but hardened conductor named Will (Chris Pine) in a race against time . They are alone and speeding toward certain disaster and the barrels are out of control . They're chasing the runaway train in a separate locomotive and need to bring it under control before it derails on a curve and causes a toxic spill that will decimate a town, and along the way making daring feats .1,000,000 Tons. 100,000 Lives. 100 Minutes . 1 million tons of steel. 100,000 lives at stake. 100 minutes to impact.1 million tons of steel. 100,000 people at risk.
An overwhelming and suspenseful movie with a nail-biting premise : a runaway half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city , carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals and 100 minutes to impact and cause a catastrophe . There are several thrilling and breathtaking scenes using real locomotives with impressive special effects , as the train connection sequence between the grain car and the train engine . The picture is well based on actual events , in fact the engineer who chased after the unmanned train in the real incident , eventually to climb aboard and stop it , collaborated as a technical adviser . Although predictable the picture is pretty well with full of chills , thriller , intrigue tense and impressive feats . As our two protagonists : Denzel Washington and Chris Pine giving nice interpretations while race against the clock to prevent a disaster . And both actors , Pine and Washington , mostly performed all of his own stunts , though were also added some CGI . Other important secondaries appearing and delivering decent acting are as follows : Rosario Dawson playing yardmaster Connie Hooper, Kevin Dunn as her superior chief , Ethan Suplee as the negligent engineer who left accidentally his train , Kevin Corrigan as Inspector Werner, Jessy Schram as Will's wife , among others .
It contains a rousing and stirring musical score by Harry Gregson-Williams . As well as a colorful and adequate Cinematography by Ben Seresin . The motion picture was competently directed by Tony Scott' , being final film before his death by suicide on August 19, 2012 . He was a good filmmaker whose works received some great reviews , his first big hit happened when was asked by producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer to direct Top Gun (1986) starring Tom Cruise . He would work again with Cruise on another high adrenaline film Days of thunder (1990) , which proved less successful . He followed the success of Top Gun with the sequel Beverly Hill cop II (1987) with Eddie Murphy, which was well received . In 1993, he directed the cult movie True Romance (1993), which was written by emerging director Quentin Tarantino but Scott had a lot of control over the film . This Unstoppable (2010) was Tony Scott and Denzel Washington's fifth and final film collaboration. The others were Red tide (1995), Man on fire (2004), Déjà vu (2006), and Pelham 123 (2009) all of them got big successes . Rating : 7/10. Well worth watching . The picture will appeal to Denzel Washington and Chris Pine fans .
An overwhelming and suspenseful movie with a nail-biting premise : a runaway half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city , carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals and 100 minutes to impact and cause a catastrophe . There are several thrilling and breathtaking scenes using real locomotives with impressive special effects , as the train connection sequence between the grain car and the train engine . The picture is well based on actual events , in fact the engineer who chased after the unmanned train in the real incident , eventually to climb aboard and stop it , collaborated as a technical adviser . Although predictable the picture is pretty well with full of chills , thriller , intrigue tense and impressive feats . As our two protagonists : Denzel Washington and Chris Pine giving nice interpretations while race against the clock to prevent a disaster . And both actors , Pine and Washington , mostly performed all of his own stunts , though were also added some CGI . Other important secondaries appearing and delivering decent acting are as follows : Rosario Dawson playing yardmaster Connie Hooper, Kevin Dunn as her superior chief , Ethan Suplee as the negligent engineer who left accidentally his train , Kevin Corrigan as Inspector Werner, Jessy Schram as Will's wife , among others .
It contains a rousing and stirring musical score by Harry Gregson-Williams . As well as a colorful and adequate Cinematography by Ben Seresin . The motion picture was competently directed by Tony Scott' , being final film before his death by suicide on August 19, 2012 . He was a good filmmaker whose works received some great reviews , his first big hit happened when was asked by producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer to direct Top Gun (1986) starring Tom Cruise . He would work again with Cruise on another high adrenaline film Days of thunder (1990) , which proved less successful . He followed the success of Top Gun with the sequel Beverly Hill cop II (1987) with Eddie Murphy, which was well received . In 1993, he directed the cult movie True Romance (1993), which was written by emerging director Quentin Tarantino but Scott had a lot of control over the film . This Unstoppable (2010) was Tony Scott and Denzel Washington's fifth and final film collaboration. The others were Red tide (1995), Man on fire (2004), Déjà vu (2006), and Pelham 123 (2009) all of them got big successes . Rating : 7/10. Well worth watching . The picture will appeal to Denzel Washington and Chris Pine fans .