What a giant train load of Hollywood hooey this movie is.

Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson look like they simply showed up on set to collect their paychecks for this nitwit movie about a runaway train. Director Tony Scott couldn't have been lazier, showing us a thousand things we've seen before and expecting us to be excited about them. I wasn't expecting much of anything from this movie and yet it still somehow managed to fall short. Action movies don't have to be an insult to their audiences' intelligence to be effective.

The biggest hoot in the film is the opening title card that says it was inspired by true events. Yeah right. Which part? That there are such things as trains? That there is a state called Pennsylvania? That sometimes train tracks actually go through towns?

Grade: D