When it comes to old-fashioned CGI-free special effects, no one does it better than Tony Scott. Put more simply, he blows up trains and it’s really cool.
Pulling it off with masterful control, Scott’s made a film whose high-wire tension and blue-collar heroics recall Clouzot’s classic The Wages of Fear-except at 70 miles an hour. With Unstoppable, Scott has brought his formidable arsenal of formal wizardry to bear on an elegantly simple conceit: two men, one train, no brakes.
But when the master of mayhem gets it right- Top Gun, True Romance, Man on Fire-he creates the kind of thrilling muscle movies that leave you feeling the pleasant burn of a good workout. It’s easy to take Tony Scott for granted-to let his hyperkinetic style flash over your eyes as you tweet about gender issues in The Social Network. Fortunately, this weekend action-auteur Tony Scott slams his runaway-freight-train film Unstoppable into theaters like, well, a runaway freight train. You can watch only so many prestige pictures during awards season before you find yourself secretly longing for some high-octane explosions.
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