There's a couple of major warning signs about this movie . One is Denzil Washington and the other is director Tony Scott . Add to this a premise about a train being out of control and you're led to think that you might be watching a dumb , noisy film with a gossamer thin plot featuring lots of camera work featuring ramping , subliminal cross cutting , crash zoom lens camera work and lots of scenes set in a railway control room along with a garish colour clash look to the film . Guess what you get with UNSTOPPABLE ? Hey you've seen it too . Strange that I could have written this paragraph without actually seeing the movie because I've seen it and this paragraph sums up this predictable film perfectly . Perhaps the most apt description I can give it is THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 set on a moving train

When you watch a movie you have to suspend a lot of disbelief . I've never worked on a railway but aren't there all these safety procedures that are totally full proof that stop the type of scenario seen here ? I'm pretty sure if I spent less than ten minutes on wikipedia I could make a long list of things I could post on the goof sections but I've got a feeling a massive amount of people have already beaten me to it

Did I say this movie reminded me of the vapid disappointing remake of THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 ? One wonders why a year after making it both the star and director felt the need to make another film featuring a train with the action inter-cutting to a railway control room . You might say at least UNSTOPPABLE features a moving high speed train unlike the static subway train of the 2009 movie but is this strictly true ? Look at the number of exciting high speed scenes where it's painfully obvious that the train itself can't be going much faster than jogging speed ! To be honest what'd you need Denzil Washington for when the average obese American could run alongside the train , squeeze in to the cab and apply the brakes thereby saving a city from disaster and the audience from getting a headache