Unstoppable (2010)
With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.
An absolute buttock clenching gripper of a movie. A disaster movie as it might happen in real life and pretty much akin to the kind of film favoured by Peter Berg in recent years (Patriot's Day and Deepwater Horizon). Director Tony Scott thrusts us head first into a new day at a Pennsylvania rail yard and straight into character's lives as we meet up with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson et-al.
The script isn't candy coated to feel the viewer into the film, we pretty much have to pick up the lingo as it goes along. Admittedly it doesn't have the dense terminology of the aforementioned Deepwater Horizon but it's a similar scenario.
The action is grounded in reality and which seems to make it more edge of the seat, helped no end by the everyman roles of Washington and Pine at the heart of the attempts to stop the train.
Seeing this on Blu-ray for the first time really brought out the sumptuous photography with some stunning sweeping shots of Pennsylvania .
This has long been a real favourite of mine. Highly recommended.
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