The problem occurs when the stars of the film can’t offer you a reason to care what you are watching. Both Rosario Dawson ( Clerks 2) and Kevin Dunn ( Transformers) manage to pull out decent performances from insignificant roles, with Dawson playing the fretting supervisor and Dunn the evil VP who decides which town should be destroyed by chemical waste. Kevin Corrigan ( The Departed) is wonderful playing against type as Inspector Werner, for once showing up in a film in something other than a wifebeater and chewing a toothpick. His performance as Dewey, the employee responsible for abandoning the runaway train is believable, and he reminds everyone watching that he is capable of more than being typecast as Randy from My Name Is Earl. Speaking of Suplee, he is one of the few to come away from this film unscathed. Literally everyone watching him attempt to jump onto the train during these scenes is in better shape. Maybe the retrieval strategy should have included: have someone other than Ethan Suplee attempt to run down the train on foot. Yes, by the end of the film it has reached speeds topping out at 70 mph, but for at least the first quarter of the film it seems to be going 35 mph, tops. Secondly, for the majority of the running time this seems to be the slowest runaway train to ever have a major theatrical release built around it. First of all, all of the ads that show the school kids being threatened by the runaway train? That is resolved within ten minutes of the train being released. They take a train out, and before you know it, there is an unmanned locomotive loaded with deadly chemicals headed straight for them! All of the older guys working there are being shoved aside for the cheaper salaried young dudes, but Frank (Washington) doesn’t seem to hold it against Will. Unstoppable begins with Will ( Chris Pine) beginning his first day at the rail company.
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Sitting in a crowded theater full of people waiting for something, anything to happen, all I could think was that at least Scott’s Domino (2005) was an interesting failure. For the love of all that is holy, will someone separate these two? I am sure for the friendship to have lasted this long they must get along great, but it just isn’t worth it. Unstoppable is the fifth collaboration between director Tony Scott and star Denzel Washington.