![]() Rosario Dawson is stuck in the control room, working on radio with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, mismatched engineers who have to work together to save the city. The train will never make the curve, and hundreds of thousands could be killed in the ensuing disaster. The problem here is a runaway train that’s going at full speed, is loaded with toxic chemicals, and is hurtling directly towards a serious curve in the middle of a population center. It’s a kind of movie that I like quite a bit - the ‘mission control’ movie, where we’re watching characters in one location trying to solve a problem in another location. The technique makes the whole movie come off slightly like a parody of itself.ĭespite that, Unstoppable is a whole lot of fun. It’s probably supposed to make static scenes feel exciting (and Unstoppable, mostly about two guys sitting in a train cab, has lots of static scenes), but it really just made everything seem kind of funny. But that doesn’t mean he’s keeping the camera still in Unstoppable he has a new trick - endless swooping pans across the frame, which make every two shot into some kind of swerving mini-helicopter shot. He seems to have attached his camera to some kind of a stabilizing device, which keeps it from shaking with head-churning intensity.
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