You can get away with murder when you slap an "Inspired by True Events" label on a movie. Sure, there was a runaway train once. Sure, people were in danger. Yup, corporations looking to cut labor costs will try to push out older, more expensive workers. You betcha, people break up.

So, when Tony Scott combines these disparate true events into a disaster movie, we get the disastrously bad Unstoppable. The whole thing is so slap-dash, so formulaic, so cynical that you might not even notice how ADHD the movie is.

We've gone far beyond the MTV editing of the 1980s; Unstoppable reaches a point of frenetic flash-cutting that literally impedes the narrative. I found myself mouthing "stop doing that" when Scott gets the average shot time down to a quarter of a nanosecond.

There are whole big swaths of story in Unstoppable that simply make no sense, primarily because it's just assumed that the average audience member has the attention span of a gnat.

One with ADHD.