review by Matt "Cinebro" Conti Pro
Unstoppable 2010
Reviewed Jun 21, 2012
Matt "Cinebro" Conti’s review:
Let me just tell you how the film goes.
There is a train. It starts to go fast.
For most of the film it goes very fast.
Then two people stop the train.
The train is no longer going fast.
The end.
You have been saved from a very painful 98 minutes.
Wait, are you saying the train...was...stoppable?
This was eye-rollingly bad. Obligatory third-act characters introduced to watch the action unfold on tv screens. So lame.
I feel as if the film is a metaphor. The train is the film. The audience are the humans trying to stop the train, and the filmmakers are that one guy trying to fuck everything up. They eventually stop the train, but it also caused some (forgettable) damage.
You're forgetting the constant zooming of the camera. I think that was the most important and significant part.