Unstoppable

"1,000,000 tons, 100,000 lives, 100 minutes," well after watched the movie, I'm still confused where is the 100,000 lives and 100 minutes themes? Oh wait, it should be the epilogue. It is Unstoppable starring veteran actor Denzel Washington and the new James T. Kirk, Chris Pine. The action thriller is directed by the one of the so-awesome director brothers, Tony Scott. Well, if you already watched some of his movie (Don't tell me you haven't seen it before. From Top Gun to Taking of Pelham 1 2 3? You've got to watched at least one of them.) you know what'll you get. A brilliant thriller. One more thing, Unstoppable also inspired by a real story, the CSX 8888 incident. All of the basic ingredients to an epic movie.

Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington) is a veteran train engineer who works at the Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad company stationed in Pennsylvania. One day, he got to worked with a new conductor, Will Colson (Chris Pine). They then both went off in a locomotive to grab Colson first job. In the mean time, another cargo train containing dangerous chemicals goes on unmanned with full speed. This is caused by the mistake taken by the engineer, who decide to leave the cabin to switch a lever without activating the air brakes. Back at the AWVR office, yard master Connie Hooper (Rosario Dawson), tries her best to stop the train before reaching Stanton. After several attempts to derail the train failed, Frank Barnes and Will Colson decided to go after the train and try to stop it.

Tony Scott, once again, did it. A brilliant thriller, you'll never get bored watching it. 98 minutes goes by packed with heart-pounding action and also emotional moments of how old worker' feeling when they're about to get laid off. Combined with the experienced actor Denzel Washington and also promising actor Chris Pine, this movie is awesome. The cinematic scene is wonderful, the cinematography section did it well. Not relying on heavy special effects, just pure acting. This is one of the movie that can set the parameter for action thriller.

Although, I still don't get the tagline. The movie runs for 98 minutes, the attempts to stop the train is more than 100 minutes, the population of Stanton is not 100,000 lives. And also, I don't really sure that the train contain 1,000,000 tons of goods. But don't mind of the tagline, maybe I get it wrong. But from technical aspects, storyline, acting,cinematography, soundtrack, simply great. You should spare your time for Unstoppable (especially if you never saw Tony Scott's works before.)