Inspired by actual events, Unstoppable comes from director
Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances.
The film is about a veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and ayoung conductor’s (Chris Pine) race against time to stop an unmannedrunaway train — effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — andprevent disaster in a heavily populated area.
The film, whichrecently opened in theatres in the US, has already garnered a lot ofappreciation from audiences as well as critics who
describe the film as‘an edge-of-your-seat drama’, ‘a good popcorn movie with solidacting by all the main characters’ and ‘an action-packed, 99-minutethrill ride that’s filled with sparking metal’. Some are evencalling it ‘The first worthy successor toSpeed.’!
Filmmaker Tony Scott is a master of motion picturessuch as Crimson Tide, Man On Fire, True Romance and Top Gun, which mix non-stopaction with finely-tuned characters and Unstoppable adds to that rich legacy.“It’s a movie that starts out at fifty miles per hour and ends up at150 mph; it’s speed-on-speed,” says Scott.
DenzelWashington adds, “The train is the star of the movie which is going downthe track at 50 miles an hour. I’m running across the top, a helicopter ishovering ten feet above me and I’m hanging off the side; it’'scrazy!”
Chris Pine, who plays Will Colson, a newbie conductor thrown into an impossible situation when a runaway train threatens to destroy an entire community, says, “Tony is a master of kinetic filmmaking; plus, he knows how to craft an action movie and balance that with substantial characters. Denzel has a tremendous ability to convey absolute truth, which is obviously the goal of any actor.” Unstoppable releases in India today in English and Hindi.
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