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'Unstoppable' is really a wild ride
The last time action director Tony Scott centered on rail transportation, the end result was the botched subway thriller "The Taking of Pelham 123." In "Unstoppable," he's back on the right track and running at full throttle. This is a terrific, sweaty, men-on-a-mission adventure,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with heroic blue-collar railwaymen, pencil-pushing bureaucrats and hotheads in the head office battling to halt an unmanned runaway train.
It's based on a real event: in 2001 a 47-car CSX train with a cargo of toxic chemicals -- but no engineer in the locomotive -- careened across three counties in Ohio before it was brought under control.
"Unstoppable" ups the ante with spectacular car wrecks, a derailment and helicopter stunts, yet it's filmed having a great a feeling of authenticity. Scott's film is a good blend of crowd-pleasing hokum and tense realism. The vibrations and noise and chaos from the collisions would be the real McCoy. Scott mostly avoided computer-generated effects in favor of shooting real vehicular carnage. The movie starts small, by having an engineer jumping out of his cab to throw a switch as Engine 777 coasts with the rail yard. When he stumbles trying to re-enter the locomotive, his fellow engineers have a horse laugh. It's embarrassing for the hapless driver, however the train's safety devices will kick in and bring 777 to some halt. Only they don't.
Through a perfect alignment of human and mechanical failures, the train jogs across northern Pennsylvania, then races,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], then rockets. Whenever a fathead executive pooh-poohs the seriousness of the situation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], dispatcher Rosario Dawson bellows, "It's not a train; it's a missile the size of the Chrysler Building!" Like last summer's "Unleash the Kraken," this can be a movie quote destined for immortality like a singles bar pickup line.
Aside from a couple of shameless sequences using a trainload full of schoolchildren and a horse trailer stuck about the tracks to generate cheap suspense, "Unstoppable" is a solid, believable story.
The plot's few stumbles are balanced through the scope and skill of the whole thing. Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are solid as ticked-off railroad men. Washington is being pushed into early retirement so that younger, cheaper conductors like the inexperienced Pine may take over. They don't much like one another, but when their milk run puts them near the cannonballing 777, they ride on face destiny.
The actors are perfect at creating empathy for what might have been a few stock working stiffs. As always, Washington is Mr. Composure, cool when confronted with impending catastrophe. What the heck, his girls are grown, his wife is gone and now his career is over. His eerie got-nothing-to-lose calm freaks out greenhorn Pine,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who had been sort of hoping to live long enough to reconcile together with his own estranged wife. The two perform a bit of manly bonding as they put themselves in danger. Hashing out their personal subplots doesn't give the story scope; it is the weakest component of a taut yarn.
The film can't stay lost in the weeds for long,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though; there's a zillion gallons of chemical doom hurtling toward Dead Man's Curve on sparking,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], squealing steel wheels. Pine and Washington both get big hero moments filmed with kinesthetic impact; when they braced to leap between boxcars I felt the tendons in my legs tighten.
Combined with the drama and visual excitement,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there's an undercurrent of working-class resentment percolating with the film. The villain of the tale may be the train,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a destructive,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unfeeling beast that becomes just as much a character because the shark in "Jaws." However the secondary theif is the incompetent executive overseeing the crisis. He sees the emergency more as a matter of potential stock devaluation than a disaster within the making. Next to halting the train, we want to see him get his comeuppance,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Scott delivers.
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