Unstoppable

Interesting up to a point, but extremely dragged out and it feels it. I had relatively high hopes for this film, and maybe that proved to be its downfall. Ninety minutes of two men in a train talking and trying to stop another speeding train quickly becomes dull.

Other than the obvious tension of whether they will stop the train or not (which isn’t really tension as it seems fairly obvious what the outcome will be), they try to create some around the main character, played by Chris Pine, in that he has split from his girlfriend and she is applying for custody of his child. This tension is then completely ruined at the end of the film when he becomes the hero by stopping the train, and she forgives him.

Another pitfall for the plot in my opinion, is that when they stop the train, Chris Pine’s character jumps onto a truck which drives him to the front of the train, and he jumps back onto the train and pulls the brake. Why couldn’t they have got someone else to do that an hour before the end of the film!? I understand it wouldn’t have been much of a film in that case, but it would make more sense.

I wouldn’t recommend watching this, it isn’t worth the time or effort, and if I’m honest you’d probably get more satisfaction out of watching Eastenders.