Film: Unstoppable

GENRE: Action
RATING: PG-13 for action and language
RUNTIME: 1hours and 38 minutes
STARRING: Denzel Washington (Book of Eli) Chris Pine (Star Trek), Rosario Dawson (Sin City)
DIRECTOR: Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Top Gun)
WRITER: Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard)
PLOT: A unmanned freight train is barreling toward a city, Denzel and Chris Pine have to stop it somehow.

FIVE OBSERVATIONS:
1 This is the perfect vehicle for Tony Scott. His hyper-kinetic film style works well with this action packed story. It’s light on story, heavy on suspenseful action.
2 While Washington’s Frank and Pine’s Will get all the credit for saving the train, it’s more Ned (Lew Temple) who should get most of the kudos for his awesome driving skills.
3 I don’t know if they actually shot this in Stanton, PA but which crappy city planner decided to put a fuel oil tank farm right by the curve of train track where there is a potential for disaster.
4 It must have been easy for Washington and Pine for filming, they have almost all of their scenes in the cab of the locomotive which was probably shot on some sound stage.
5 I kept thinking of the SNL sketch I saw a couple of weeks ago where Jay Pharoah does a killer Denzel impression in a hilarious Unstoppable parody.

RECOMMENDATION: DVD should be good enough
UPCOMING REVIEWS: Voyage of Dawn Treader