......starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine and directed by Tony Scott.
We got it via NETFLIX.
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It was a really good action/thriller that, IMHO, equalled or surpassed many other "railroad flicks" in entertainment value, including "Murder on the Orient Express," Burt Lancaster's "The Train," Hitchcock's' "Strangers on a Train," Frank Sinatra's "Von Ryan's Express," Jamie Lee Curtis' "Terror Train," Jon Voight's "Runaway Train," Rob Lowe's "Atomic Train," Gene Wilder's "Silver Streak," Fess Parker's "The Great Locomotive Chase," Michael Crichton's "The Great Train Robbery" with Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Leslie-Ann Down," "Midnight Meat Train," "Trainspotting," "Training Day," "How to Train your Dragon," "The Darjeeling Limited," "The Polar Express," Roy Acuff''s musical "Night Train to Memphis," "The Little Engine That Could," "The Very,Very Best of Soul Train," "Debbie Pulls a Train to Dallas" and "The Chartroose Caboose," plus even "Boxcar Willie: Live in Concert at Billy Bob's."
Featuring almost non-stop locomotive thrills, diesel powered deeds of derring-do, plenty of scripted heroics, actual stunt work by real stunt men and very cool cinematography, this movie had me squirming in voyeuristic video excitement in my Lazy Boy throughout, while chugging cold beers and cheering silently in my mind for the good guys.
The screenplay was at full throttle, the acting was right on track for this genre and the direction was well engineered and nicely conducted.
A little sex would have been fine with me, but you can take your kids to this one despite my reference to Debbie doing Dallas.
No kidding, after expecting no more than a cinematic train wreck, my wife and I found "Unstoppable" to be a worthwhile, well made and very interesting action flick.
Anybody seen it?
We got it via NETFLIX.
The Link
It was a really good action/thriller that, IMHO, equalled or surpassed many other "railroad flicks" in entertainment value, including "Murder on the Orient Express," Burt Lancaster's "The Train," Hitchcock's' "Strangers on a Train," Frank Sinatra's "Von Ryan's Express," Jamie Lee Curtis' "Terror Train," Jon Voight's "Runaway Train," Rob Lowe's "Atomic Train," Gene Wilder's "Silver Streak," Fess Parker's "The Great Locomotive Chase," Michael Crichton's "The Great Train Robbery" with Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Leslie-Ann Down," "Midnight Meat Train," "Trainspotting," "Training Day," "How to Train your Dragon," "The Darjeeling Limited," "The Polar Express," Roy Acuff''s musical "Night Train to Memphis," "The Little Engine That Could," "The Very,Very Best of Soul Train," "Debbie Pulls a Train to Dallas" and "The Chartroose Caboose," plus even "Boxcar Willie: Live in Concert at Billy Bob's."
Featuring almost non-stop locomotive thrills, diesel powered deeds of derring-do, plenty of scripted heroics, actual stunt work by real stunt men and very cool cinematography, this movie had me squirming in voyeuristic video excitement in my Lazy Boy throughout, while chugging cold beers and cheering silently in my mind for the good guys.
The screenplay was at full throttle, the acting was right on track for this genre and the direction was well engineered and nicely conducted.
A little sex would have been fine with me, but you can take your kids to this one despite my reference to Debbie doing Dallas.
No kidding, after expecting no more than a cinematic train wreck, my wife and I found "Unstoppable" to be a worthwhile, well made and very interesting action flick.
Anybody seen it?
