Movie Blog and Review (Blog #7)

Blog # 7

Movie Blog and Review on Unstoppable

12/12/10

Professor Purdy

            Less than a month ago I went to see a movie called Unstoppable.  The movie had a strong cast, with Denzel Washington leading the pack.  Denzel is the main character and plays Frank.  He has a co-actor with him in the movie by the name of, Chris Pine, who plays Will, Frank’s partner.  The movie revolves around a true story about a train in Ohio carrying 2,898 tons becoming unmanned due to a rail operator hopping out of the train in order to go flip a switch to make the train go on a different track.  What ends up happening is the operator does flip the switch in time, but after the switch is flipped and the train switches tracks the operator is unable to catch back up with the train because the speed of the train increases and the operator cannot catch up with it.  The train then ends up traveling sixty-six unmanned miles at around 51 mph through Ohio before another train is able to catch up to it slow it down using its brakes and have an operator climb on board in order to bring it to a complete stop.  The movie uses that true story to base its own storyline off of.  However, in the movie the setting is in Western Pennsylvania and they change around the train number and company.  They also make the movie a lot more dramatic by saying that the train is carrying a bunch of toxic chemicals and if it derails that the result would be catastrophic.  Overall, the movie was very entertaining.  Even if the only reason I went to see it was because of Denzel, it did have an interesting plot and the action was highly dramatic.  This made for an exciting film to watch, even if it was all about a train.  I would have to give this movie eight stars out of ten due to the strong acting, intense action, and an interesting plot line.