Unstoppable is about a train that goes too fast with hazardous materials aboard. No one is on the train to stop it whilst it is on full throttle, so obviously something bad might become of this. Evidently, people have to try to stop it. That is the plot in a nutshell.The film was utterly dull, with no sense of excitement at any point. Though the music tried to make us feel excited the visuals did not show this.
There were attempts to develop the main characters, but interactions between the two that lead to character development was sparse and amounted to very little. There was nothing that made me like any of the characters at any point, all of them seeming as if they only had flaws and no redeemable characteristics. Indeed, all these characters were one-dimensional, displaying a single character trait throughout and offering no depth.
Though the film attempted to be realistic it was not so - especially the ridiculous explosion of a derailed carriage which would never have happened in any reality unless the carriage was filled with several tonnes of unstable dynamite. The only thing that made the film at all watchable was the directing and acting, neither of which were too bad, with Denzel Washington outperforming Chris Pine by a mile, though Pine still pulls off a good performance. Sadly, the acting could not save the poor script and the directing faltered at many points, such as too many shots of underneath the train as well as a fetish for zooming.
Unstoppable did not deliver the high-octane disaster thriller that the trailer tried (but failed) to show. I didn't think the film would be worse than the trailer but somehow that happened.
Utterly bland with no form of excitement, Unstoppable is a film that you would do well to miss as it offers nothing in its attempt to revive a stale genre that was overdone in the 90s.
Final Verdict: 2/10
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