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I’d been looking forward to seeing Unstoppable for a couple months, ever since I first saw the trailer before some other movie. And even though my anticipation only grew with each time I saw a commercial on TV about the movie, or saw some mention of it in the paper … it still delivered and met all my high expectations. Great movie overall. I caught it on Friday at Fairchild CInemas in Pasco on the movie’s opening day. (If there had been a midnight showing, I would’ve been there!)

Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are trainyard workers — a vet and a rookie, respectively — called into unexpected duty to stop a runaway train that’s careening through the central Pennsylvania landscape, an area dotted with small towns and a mid-sized city where the track becomes a dangerous, raised S-curve. The train has several cars loaded with hazardous materials and all involved quickly realize they could be looking at a disaster of epic proportions. After a few unsuccessful attempts to slow the train down, Washington and Pine make a terrifically-filmed and realized heroic rescue. The movie is based on an actual train emergency that happened in 2001 in Ohio.

Unstoppable actually starts a bit slowly (not unlike the runaway train itself, now that I think about it) and I wish they had spent a little more time introducing us to Washington’s and Pine’s characters. There are several typical action-movie cliches — the bumbling employee who causes the emergency, the short-sighted train company executives who make several poor decisions, the over-zealous media, etc. But once the emergency takes center stage, the rest of the movie just sings and you don’t mind any of that whatsoever. On more than one occasion, I had to take a deep breath and tell myself to relax.

Washington is really good in this movie (as he in every movie, pretty much); I think I’d pay to watch him tie his shoes.

Overall, a big thumbs up from me for Unstoppable. Check it out first chance you get!

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