Tony Scott was one of the best action directors of his time. He became famous thanks to the incredible success of Top Gun – You fear neither death nor devil. He later directed genre classics like Crimson Tide and Public Enemy No. 1. His most exciting creative phase begins, however, only after the turn of the millennium.
From man on fire to dominoes to déjà vu – a race against time: In the 2000s, Scott took action cinema by quite a few restless, almost virtuosic representatives enriched. Unstoppable, the final film by the filmmaker who left us far too early, also fits perfectly into this series.
Absolute actino high tension: Unstoppable lets you hold your breath for 98 minutes
The story of Unstoppable is easy to explain: A 39-car freight train races uncontrollably at 100 kilometers per hour over the tracks and threatens to derail and crash to crack fuel storage. Only train driver Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington) and his young colleague Will Colson (Chris Pine) can prevent the train from turning into a poison bomb.
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Unstoppable – Trailer (German)
With Unstoppable, Tony Scott has created a masterful action thriller that designed for high voltage is. Speed plays a crucial role in this. Equally important, however, is the dynamic between the unlikely duo of Barnes and Colson. The two must learn to trust each other.
Scott lets us experience every decision that either leads to disaster or can prevent it through many different perspectives. Unstoppable hits the train right over the tracks, but also gives us a picture of the overall situation. At every second we know what is at stake.
The story of the film unfolds true events back, as the US newspaper The Blade notes. On May 15, 2001, an unmanned train escaped from a rail yard in Ohio and speeded 106 kilometers unnamed across the state. The incident went down in history as CSX 8888.
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