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'Unstoppable' is really a wild ride,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The final time action director Tony Scott focused on rail transportation, the end result was the botched subway thriller "The Taking of Pelham 123." In "Unstoppable,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he's back on course and running at full throttle. This is a terrific, sweaty,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], men-on-a-mission adventure, with heroic blue-collar railwaymen, pencil-pushing bureaucrats and hotheads in the head office battling to halt an unmanned runaway train.
It's depending 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 prior to being brought in check.
"Unstoppable" ups the ante with spectacular car wrecks,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a derailment and helicopter stunts, yet it's filmed having a great sense of authenticity. Scott's film is a superb blend of crowd-pleasing hokum and tense realism. The vibrations and noise and chaos of 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his fellow engineers possess a horse laugh. It's embarrassing for that hapless driver, however the train's safety devices will kick in and produce 777 to some halt. Only they don't.
Through a perfect alignment of human and mechanical failures,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the train jogs across northern Pennsylvania, then races, then rockets. Whenever a fathead executive pooh-poohs the degree of the problem, dispatcher Rosario Dawson bellows, "It's not really a train; it's a missile how big 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 few shameless sequences utilizing a trainload full of schoolchildren and a horse trailer stuck about the tracks to create cheap suspense, "Unstoppable" is a solid,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], believable story.
The plot's few stumbles are balanced by the scope and skill from the event. Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are solid as ticked-off railroad men. Washington is being pushed into early retirement so that younger, cheaper conductors such as the inexperienced Pine can take over. They don't much like each other, 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 could have been a few stock working stiffs. As always, Washington is Mr. Composure, cool in the face of impending catastrophe. What the heck, his girls are grown, his wife is gone and now his career has ended. His eerie got-nothing-to-lose calm freaks out greenhorn Pine,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who was kind of looking to live long enough to reconcile together with his own estranged wife. Both do a bit of manly bonding as they put themselves in danger. Hashing out their personal subplots doesn't give the story scope; it's the weakest component of a taut yarn.
The film can't stay lost in the weeds for long, though; there is a zillion gallons of chemical doom hurtling toward Dead Man's Curve on sparking, 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, there's an undercurrent of working-class resentment percolating through the film. The villain of the tale is the train,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a destructive,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unfeeling beast that becomes as much a personality as the shark in "Jaws." But the secondary bad guy is the incompetent executive overseeing the crisis. He sees the emergency more as a matter of potential stock devaluation than the usual disaster within the making. Alongside halting the train, you want to see him get his comeuppance, and Scott delivers.
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