Unstoppable

A very predictable and unoriginal film that now, in 2010, doesn’t deserve any attention. Tony should work on more interesting projects, he still does action very well. The film did inject some adrenaline in my veins, but it’s a pity it didn’t manage to make me feel really tense, because there is absolutely no doubt about how things will turn out. Cliché incarnated. (12/20/2010)

The title doesn't lie. Tony Scott made an uncompromising action flick that combines the atmosphere of old-school John Frankenheimer or Don Siegel blockbusters with contemporary, digitally supercharged visuals, and it gets going early on... and then it's just goes, goes, goes. True, there's not much that's unexpected or revelatory in Unstoppable, but it's such an entertaining and fun film that I found myself staring. As I hold the DVD cover in my hands, I wonder why the hell it didn't come to the movie theatres? (03/29/2011)

Scott has tamed the visual orgy down to a minimum, instead letting James T. Kirk and Senor Creasy put the brakes on the Runaway Train, which is pumping at maximum warp drive. All this in the year's most suspenseful film, where I involuntarily let out a few "Wow!" moments. Without a drop of shame, I admit that I was hoping for a happy ending, just like the emotional American families of heroes on TV screens, or when clichés and adrenaline work in the best possible ratio. [Coincidentally watched on a train.] (12/23/2010)

A straightforward action treat, dripping with adrenalin, especially toward the end. I even sort of subliminally guessed how it would all end, and sometimes a shocked “Jeezus" or “Wow" dropped out of my (and not just my) wide open mouth. Scott does incredible work with the entire dynamics and has a talent for action that few can equal, and also I’m really pleased that the trains and the surroundings were all real. No greenscreen sequences. No shortage of clichés here, but Denzel and Chris Pine endured this with flying colors and the movie could be taken to be a harmless return to grassroots. Otherwise, this was one of the most thrilling movies recently. (01/23/2011)

Especially in the last 30 minutes a solid adrenaline dose. It's been done before and in a better version (Končalovský's Runaway Train, for instance), but otherwise this action flick has one big trump card, and that is the unorthodox setting of railway transport. Scott ticks along with the action, thanks to which even the mandatory clichés surrounding the protagonist's family can be survived unscathed. (12/25/2010)