Unstoppable

Ratings: 5.7/10
Film Class: B-
Genre: Drama

Inspired by actual events, an unmanned train carrying toxic chemicals is headed for a town, threatening a large scale catastrophe. It's up to the train company to try to derail it, or a couple of employees who believes otherwise, that the only solution is to stop the train from its rear.

Denzel Washington delivers another The Taking of Pelham 123's performance, this time as a veteran engineer. Chris Pine stars as the unconvincing conductor who puts his life on the line to save a town from disaster. Although this film is directed by one of the top directors of Hollywood Tony Scott, this movie turned out to be quite dull and unengaging. The camerawork was grainy and felt like a low budget movie.

There wasn't a heightened climax in the movie and at the end of its screening, I felt I had lost 98 mins of my life. Can't blame the director for a bad movie every once in a while, because we all know that movies based on actual events will never be that intense compared to fictional stories... If you can name me one such movie, then you've probably been taken down the eden path of exaggeration and publicity stunts. Kudos to the director for taking the challenge to direct a movie without overplaying it.