The stabs at characterization are obvious, yet Washington and Pine make the rough edges feel earned. There's some blue-collar unease highlighting the malleability of youthful hires versus the experience of age in the workplace, but that's only a fringe bit of tension, unable to find much traction in a film spotlighting a runaway train on its speedy way to blowing up a good chunk of Pennsylvania. It's a Crayola script from Mark Bomback ("Deception"), who dreams up only a smattering of backstory, as Will and Frank share unique female trouble in their lives, making their bond one of confession rather than mutual respect. Opening with a train yard accident set off by human error, the film doesn't waste any time striking the danger zone, with Scott showing atypical enthusiasm to set the metal beast off on its course, developing our heroes and their constant stream of setbacks along the way. "Unstoppable" is, of course, reminiscent of the 1994 smash, "Speed." Instead of a careening bus and thumbless terrorist, we now have a brakeless train that nobody dares take credit for.
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Finding themselves with a shot to slow down the speeding bomb, Will and Frank endeavor to figure out a plan of attack, facing an icy corporate front that cares more about preserving stock prices and a harried dispatcher (a wonderfully authoritative Rosario Dawson) who doesn't have a clue how to bring the train down peacefully. The party is soon cut short when word of a runaway freight train arrives, blazing through the state at 74mph, carrying a toxic load that will detonate upon impact. On this peaceful day, the two opposites slowly get to know each other, riding along Pennsylvania rails trading sob stories from their personal life.
Big, dumb, and loud, "Unstoppable" is a marvelous popcorn thriller, crafted in an almost passé style that recalls Scott's more electrifying, white-knuckle efforts from the past.Īs a young train conductor, Will Colson (Chris Pine, "Star Trek") has entered a workplace of disgruntled veterans, paired with engineer Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington) for orientation. It's completely brain dead, but one heck of a whirl, blasting through the screen with a dedication to blistering pace that immediately scrapes away the troubling dead spots of the script. It's the 1990s all over again with "Unstoppable," a high concept thrill ride featuring all the trimmings that made director Tony Scott such a hot action commodity over a decade ago.
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