Unstoppable
Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson
Directed by: Tony Scott
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When a man’s life is on the line, there are plenty of things he can do in order to save someone. These are situations where everything depends on one single moment, when you can either live or die depending on every single one of even the smallest of decisions that you make. The bigger problem is when you are responsible not only for your personal life and body, but also for the ones of many others. How many of us are able to actually dive into perilous situations in order to save someone else? What if it was our duty? No, here we are not talking about the notorious firefighters, the police officers or the emergency room specialists which have lives depending on them all the time. The situation is even worse when someone, whose usual work does not include being a hero, has to beat all odds and rescue not only himself, not only himself and his family…not at all… he has to safe an entire small village.
Unstoppable tells the thrilling story of a train which is out of control, filled with an extremely toxic chemical and most of all – deadly dangerous. Train 777 is about to crash into a neighborhood in Stanton, Pennsylvania. That is, of course, if we don’t find a hero to stop it. Denzel Washington plays Frank Barnes, a railway veteran with just a tiny bit of kilometers left in his career before resigning. As a very able locomotive engineer he is able to stop not only a train-gone-wild but also the hyper personality of an apprentice played by an unshaven, but interesting, Chris Pine. Rosario Dawson is in the role of the very nervous and quite impressive supervising dispatcher. And with such an acting, even the overly clichéd script can seem really good.
Director Tony Scott, famous for TV works such as Numb3rs, takes another U-turn in his career. Actually, there are plenty of mistakes and misunderstandings when it comes to his work. First of all there is this massively intolerable nauseous feeling which engulfs the viewer and makes them want to grab the seat with all force in order to feel more secure. No, it’s not because the movie puts you on the edge of your seat, but of the sea sickness that is simulated by the cameras. There is hardly any moment in this movie which is shot still. The director has chosen that the best way to catch the mood is to let the filming go crazy with ultra fast zoom-ins and zoom-outs, hangings and pullings of the view are also of his favourites. As a whole, even though we have the veteran-actor playing a veteran locomotive engineer in the face of Denzel Washington, we are still uncertain of the real values of Unstoppable.
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