Unstoppable

I do like Tony Scott's recent films, and I was looking forward to this one. A runaway train travelling into a highly populated area needs to be stopped.

What I did like was the look of the film, the train, the actors.
What I didn't like was the stereotypical characters and the cliched ending.

This was a pretty intense ride, Scott skipped the character lead ins, and got straight down to the action. He gave us glimpses of the day in the life of a train driver and conductor, but his star of the film was his train. It looked and sounded impressive as it thundered through the film, and Scott really drove home the destructive force that a train this size is.
Chris Pine and Washington worked fine for me, even if Washington never got out of 1st gear, then again the story and the script didn't play on the characters too much, this wasn't about acting, this was about the train!
I really like the look of Scott's films, this one not as flashy as Man on Fire, but the editing was sharp, a little too sharp in some places, leaving the action a little disjointed and it lost some of it's impact. I'm talking about the train full of children, it's never really made clear just how close it was. But this is a minor quibble, the rest of the film is a blast. Real edge of the seat stuff.

Solid entertainment (9/10)