Unstoppable is inspired by true events and concerns two men: Frank Barnes played by Denzel Washington and Will Colston played by Chris Pine who are tasked in stopping a freight train carrying Hazardous material and is also unmanned and heading towards a populated area in Southern Pennsylvania.
Unstoppable is a fun, stupid movie like some of the early movies director Tony Scott made early in his career like his 1986 hit Top Gun or his 1987 sequel Beverly Hills Cop II, Both Denzel and Pine play off each other very well and the film does pick up steam after an initial wishy washy beginning.
But the one thing that I just couldn't get out of my mind as I watched this movie was its reminders to me of the classic Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" I mean seriously it's all there, there's the brain-dead slob in the cushy job, the runaway object, the reclusive scientist that made me go "It's not Batman" heck even the crazy plan to stop the train is similar but this time it doesn't involve an anchor of some sorts that's stopped by a giant donut, all you needed was the management to do the whole solar power thing and one of the kids on another train to go "A Solar Eclipse, the cosmic ballet goes on."
All in all, it's stupid but fun stupid, 2 and a half out of 5.
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