There an overweight, slovenly sort named Dewey (a dead-on Ethan Suplee), a guy who screams ineptitude the moment he walks on the scene, screws up in a major way. These men try to establish a working relationship in their cab while dealing with personal issues (Colson is concerned with his estranged wife, Barnes with a pair of feisty grown daughters) the scene shifts to another train yard elsewhere in Pennsylvania. вЂњDo it right, and if you donвЂ™t know, ask.вЂќ (OK, thatвЂ™s two rules, but whoвЂ™s quibbling?) Barnes also believes вЂњif you make a mistake in training they give you an F, out here you get killed,вЂќ which is a difficult argument to refute. However ColsonвЂ™s partner for the day, veteran вЂњ28 years on the lineвЂќ engineer Frank Barnes (Washington) may be hard but heвЂ™s fair.

Written by Mark Bomback with a fine sense of potential mayhem around the next curve, вЂњUnstoppableвЂќ is obviously not the place to go for Oscar-winning drama, but by casting top-flight performers across the board the film gets the most out of the вЂњinspired by true eventsвЂќ pandemonium it creates.Д«efore we so much as see a train we meet Will Colson (Pine), a young man in a Pennsylvania town unhappily sleeping on his brotherвЂ™s sofa because of some unspecified marital difficulties we will learn all about before the final credits roll.Д¬olson is a newly minted conductor with four monthsвЂ™ experience on the AWVR railway and his arrival on the job is viewed with suspicion by older heads. Scott and company have also made that runaway train, AWVR locomotive 777, look and sound as fearsome as one of those dinosaurs from ' Jurassic Park.вЂќ Painted bright red with an electric yellow stripe and a yellow and black cowcatcher in front, this is one formidable locomotive. He clearly enjoys having real people involved in real stunts and crashes, even getting Washington and Pine to put in some time on the top of that moving locomotive (though the heaviest lifting was done by expert stuntmen Clay Donahue Fontenot and Daniel Stevens). More than that, in an age when CGI images are second nature, Scott prefers practical effects. Working with veteran colleagues like production designer Chris Seagers and editor Chris Lebenzon (who shares credit with Robert Duffy) and new teammates like cinematographer Ben Seresin, Scott likes nothing better than filling the screen with movement, whether it be darting helicopters, police cruisers with sirens flashing or trains with minds of their own. But while continually doing the same kind of movie might anesthetize some directors, it energizes Scott, who has gotten better and better at building and sustaining traditional kinds of tension. This is also the second straight Scott film (after the underappreciated вЂњThe Taking of Pelham 123') involving a train and the sixth of his career to star Denzel Washington, here sharing the screen with вЂњStar TrekвЂ™sвЂќ Chris Pine and one very out of control locomotive. With action auteur Tony Scott directing, вЂњUnstoppableвЂќ certainly features a lot that weвЂ™ve seen before, from its vehicle-from-hell format to its venerable advertising line: вЂњ1,000,000 Tons, 100,000 Lives, 100 Minutes.вЂќ Yes, they still do make them that way. A runaway train drama that never slows down, it fashions familiarity into a virtue and shows why old-school professionalism never goes out of style.

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