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in the control room Rosario Dawson gets to talk to a lot of people over
the phone, while out in the real world roughly half the story is told
through fake news footage - needless to say there's "the train is still
out of control" updates every minute or so in case you nod off.
Director Tony Scott's usual over‑the‑top editing and refusal to let a
moment pass without someone reminding us of what's at stake contains
all the subtlety of a railway sleeper to the face, but to his credit he
actually manages to make what is a high‑stakes but visually
unimpressive story feel dramatic.
Even when things do start to
get all "action movie" towards the end (it's hardly a spoiler to reveal
that Washington and Evans' characters get hands‑on in the efforts to
stop the train) things stay largely within the realms of
plausibility.
The result is a working class action movie
where a workhorse train trundles through various beat‑up small towns on
its way to destroy a run‑down industrial town while working stiffs use
their on‑the‑job experience to try and avert disaster.
So if a 90 minute workplace safety film is
your idea of a good time, Unstoppable
is the train to board.
DVD Special Features
It seems like all Denzel Washington does
these days is either save people from banks or from trains. This could
possibly have lead to the fact that while drawing a respectable $80M at
the Box Office, it still struggles to warrant its almost $100M budget. It's the sort of movie you don't really think you'll follow up on DVD -
therefore the DVD special features are pretty lame. All we've got here
is an Audio Commentary with Director Tony Scott, and a featurette "The
Fastest Track: Unleashing Unstoppable". Wait for Foxtel...
Conclusion - Movie: 65% Extras: 50%
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