With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.
As a result, the "inspired by true events" tagline that 20th Century Fox marketed the film with is accurate, but the events were changed significantly enough that a "based on a true story" tagline might have seemed dishonest to most moviegoers.
The screenplay is engaging and the dramatization is adequate to the story. The great cast with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson completes this excellent entertainment. My vote is seven.
With an A-list cast happily playing against type, a nonlinear storytelling approach, witty dialogue and a plethora of creative violence, Bullet Train plays out like an immensely satisfying upgrade of prime Tarantino. A blast... The film works because Brad Pitt is a really funny and engaging guy.
A: Well, Unstoppable does take place in rural Pennsylvania; I can only guess this kind of thing is more common than we think in rural parts of the country. (But that's just my snobbish, city-slicker perspective.)
The picture's screenplay—written by Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, and Walter Bernstein—is loosely based on the non-fiction book Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, who documented the works of art placed in storage that had been looted by Nazi Germany from museums and private art collections.
For two hours, the train traveled at speeds up to 51 miles per hour (82 km/h) until the crew of a second locomotive, CSX #8392, coupled onto the runaway and slowly applied its brakes.
With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.
Driving at high speed they make it to the locomotive, where Colson is finally able to get into the cab and stop the train. Ned and first responders pull up next to the now stopped 777, and Colson's injured foot is treated by the paramedics. Colson's Wife arrives with their son and reunites with him.
What is the movie where the train keeps exploding?
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Helicopter pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is part of a top-secret military operation that enables him to experience the last few minutes in the life of Sean Fentress, a man who died in a commuter-train explosion.
Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the p... Read all.
Based on the true story of the CSX-8888 incident of May 2001, Unstoppable is an old-school action-adventure. The Oscar-nominated movie, which hit theaters in November 2010, chronicles railroad workers' attempt to stop an unmanned runaway train.
AWVR 1206 is an AWVR (Allegheny & West Virginia Railroad) EMD SD40-2 diesel locomotive in the 2010 action/thriller movie, Unstoppable, that encountered and chased after the runaway train.
During the night of 22–23 July 1945, these men went ashore at Karafuto, Japan, and planted an explosive charge that subsequently wrecked a train. The raid is represented by the train symbol in the middle bottom of the battle flag.
Train robberies were more common in the past when trains were slower, and often occurred in the American Old West. Trains carrying payroll shipments were a major target. These shipments would be guarded by an expressman whose duty was to protect the cargo of the "express car".
The name “Underground Railroad” was used metaphorically, not literally. It was not an actual railroad, but it served the same purpose—it transported people long distances. It also did not run underground, but through homes, barns, churches, and businesses.
Scott and the production used several trains and tracks and had to deal with rain, snow and even one real derailment. Through it all, though, Scott, 66, stuck to his guns and made the film with just a modicum of CGI.
It reached speeds of nearly 50 mph as it rolled along the tracks, past farmers' fields and cities, including Bowling Green and Findlay. The incident began when an engineer climbed off the locomotive to adjust a switch, CSX officials said.
The last hope to avert UTTER DISASTER eventually resides in the hands of Chris Pine as rookie railroad conductor Will Colson, and the always watchable Denzel Washington as old railroad hand Frank Barnes, in their trusty but slow locomotive, which is on track at the same time.
