![]() ![]() Inspired by a real story from 2001 of a 47-car train carrying toxic molten phenol acid that left the yard without an engineer on board and charged through Ohio for more than two hours before it was boarded and brought under control, the script features working class characters who are uniformly pissed off and carry their bad attitudes to work. First and foremost, however, it’s a crackling rip-snorter in which the moans, groans, sparking metal and sheer force of the train produce an intense visceral reaction for nearly the full 99-minute running time. None of this was likely intended as the raison d’etre of Mark Bomback‘s screenplay, but it massively strengthens the film Scott has made for anyone who cares to notice. And yet one senses an innate, underlying optimism perhaps the nation is down, but it should never be counted out, with the film suggesting that the common people can deliver the goods as they always have. ![]() 2 elections, Unstoppablewould seem to uncannily embody the mood reflected in the results life seems fractured and out of joint, there’s a testiness in the way people relate to one another, friction between classes is worse than before and the future looks bleak. ![]() But in its incidental portrait of discontented and discounted working stiffs who live marginal lives on society’s sidings and are angry to varying degrees, the film carries an unexpected weight and could connect with Middle American audiences in a big way.Īrriving so soon after the Nov.
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