Just when you think things might be okay, they’re not, and the train - and the film - keep charging ahead to the outstanding finale. But the most breathtaking sequence involves attempting to lower a Marine from a helicopter by cable down onto the runaway while both are doing 75 mph. On their run in the vicinity, Frank and Will become involved in the pursuit and various schemes are tried: Putting engines in front of the runaway to gradually slow it down, then pulling an engine up from behind to connect so as to drag the long train to slower speeds.
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Before long the incident is picked up by TV news (Fox, of course) and police choppers fly overhead.
Her boss Galvin ( Kevin Dunn) must ultimately decide on whether or not to derail the train, but it’s headed to more populated areas where the explosion of toxic cargo could prove devastating. Under full power, the hard-charging train becomes “a missile,” in the words of train traffic manager Connie ( Rosario Dawson), who tries to keep track of where the train is and how catastrophe can be avoided in the short term. There’s a bit of cheap suspense as the “coaster,” as the runaway is initially called, is on a collision course with a trainload of school children but, once that’s averted, the suspense and excitement build without distraction or pause. In fact, it is incompetence and a cavalier “whatever” attitude that triggers the crisis when a slovenly, overweight engineer ( Ethan Suplee) hops off his cab to reset a switch and then can’t catch up as his train (on which the air brakes also happen to be disconnected) rolls out of the yard.
Will’s youth and family political connections do nothing to endear him to Frank’s circle of grizzled veterans at the train yard, where morale seems very low indeed. On this given day in central Pennsylvania, Will ( Chris Pine), a young man whose wife has obtained a restraining order against him, is assigned as conductor on a freight run with veteran engineer Frank ( Denzel Washington), whose college-age daughters work at Hooters but who otherwise keeps his problems to himself. Inspired by a real story from 2001 of a 47-car train carrying toxic molten phenol acid that left the yard without an engineer on board and charged through Ohio for more than two hours before it was boarded and brought under control, the script features working class characters who are uniformly pissed off and carry their bad attitudes to work. First and foremost, however, it’s a crackling rip-snorter in which the moans, groans, sparking metal and sheer force of the train produce an intense visceral reaction for nearly the full 99-minute running time. None of this was likely intended as the raison d’etre of Mark Bomback‘s screenplay, but it massively strengthens the film Scott has made for anyone who cares to notice.
And yet one senses an innate, underlying optimism perhaps the nation is down, but it should never be counted out, with the film suggesting that the common people can deliver the goods as they always have. 2 elections, Unstoppablewould seem to uncannily embody the mood reflected in the results life seems fractured and out of joint, there’s a testiness in the way people relate to one another, friction between classes is worse than before and the future looks bleak. But in its incidental portrait of discontented and discounted working stiffs who live marginal lives on society’s sidings and are angry to varying degrees, the film carries an unexpected weight and could connect with Middle American audiences in a big way.Īrriving so soon after the Nov.
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