Unstoppable - out of control

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Movie
German title Unstoppable - out of control
Original title Unstoppable
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Tony Scott
script Mark Bomback
production Julie Yorn ,
Tony Scott,
Mimi Rogers ,
Eric McLeod ,
Alex Young
music Harry Gregson-Williams
camera Ben Seresin
cut Chris Lebenzon
Robert Duffy
occupation

Unstoppable - Out of Control (Original title: Unstoppable ) is an American thriller from 2010 with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine in the lead roles. It will be the last film directed by Tony Scott .

action

As a result of the negligence of two rail workers in the marshalling yard at Fuller Yard , Pennsylvania , a freight train loaded with toxic chemicals sets in motion unmanned. He gets on the single-track route towards Stanton . Due to its explosive charge, the train resembles a bomb on rails, which makes the situation all the more precarious, because the route of the train leads through a heavily populated area. In addition, one of the railway employees did not connect the hoses for the air brake .

Connie Hooper, dispatcher at the railway company's control center, immediately sounds the alarm and tries to stop the train. However, since the train is moving faster than initially assumed, it is not possible to steer it onto a siding. When the employee assigned by Connie arrives at the corresponding switch, the train has already passed.

Attempts to slow down the train with two additional locomotives or to lower a driver onto the driverless train by helicopter in parallel both fail: the driver who tries to slow down the train fails and is killed in the process; the roped man survived this action. The second attempt to deliberately derail the train with track blocks does not succeed either. It drives on at up to 70 miles per hour (approx. 110 km / h).

The experienced engine driver Frank Barnes and his new young colleague Will Colson are on the same route in the opposite direction with their train. After a brief evasive maneuver, they quickly take up the chase with their locomotive. Your plan: You want to couple to the unmanned train from behind and slow it down.

The situation comes to a head as the train approaches a particularly tight bend with a fuel depot in the immediate vicinity. Thousands of people's lives are at stake because this curve can only be negotiated at 15 miles per hour (approx. 25 km / h). A race against time begins.

In the meantime, Frank and Will have caught up with the train and successfully coupled their locomotive to the last car. This maneuver initially slows down the train, but cannot stop it. Frank tries to activate the brakes on the individual freight cars. After all, the train is now so slow that it does not derail in the critical curve.

Eventually, Will succeeds in first jumping onto a pickup truck that is driving next to the train and from there into the driver's cab of the driverless locomotive, and he finally manages to stop the train.

background

As early as 1985, Runaway Train was a film with a similar theme. The plot of this film is based on a true story, known as the CSX 8888 incident , when a train ran out of control on May 15, 2001 in the Stanley Yard marshalling yard near the city of Toledo , Ohio , and was unmanned for about 100 kilometers drove towards Kenton . A similar incident, which, however, did not go off lightly, happened on November 17, 1966 near Oberliederbach near Frankfurt / Main-Höchst. A railcar had become self-employed on a single-track route that slopes down from the Taunus to the Main during the engine driver's break. An attempt to steer the train roaring through some places onto a siding failed. The driverless train collided head-on with a passenger train, 8 people were killed.

reception

“ Tony Scott's Unstoppable is a solid near-disaster film. His message: The right decision is not dictated by money, but by conscience. […] Tony Scott […] certainly did not create an outstanding single work with what is, in the best sense of the word, a conservative film. "

- The time

“If you want to make the viewer believe that what you saw actually happened, you have to bend over with laughter. It may well be that one has orientated oneself to true events, but that these should have happened against all physical laws (as staged here) is extremely unlikely. What Tony Scott and [...] Denzel Washington thought of such outrageous nonsense remains open. In addition, there is the often sloppy recut, which is more annoying than entertaining. Unfortunately, nothing is exciting in this hunt against time, but a lot is pointless. "

- prisma.de

“ Speed on rails - unstoppable - Tony Scott is out of control in top form. The visual virtuoso not only creates an ode to the American working class, but also an incredibly effective, thrilling actioner who seems to consist of pure kinetic energy. "

- movie starts

Award

At the 2010 Satellite Awards ceremony , Unstoppable won the award for best sound editing and was nominated for four other awards ( best camera , best editing , best film music , best visual effects ). At the 2011 Academy Awards, she was nominated for the Best Sound Editing category .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Unstoppable - Out of Control . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 933 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Unstoppable - Out of Control . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ With righteousness against Godzilla. In: Die Zeit , accessed on November 16, 2010
  4. ↑ Unstoppable - Out of Control. In: prisma.de , accessed on November 16, 2010
  5. ↑ Unstoppable - Out of Control. In: Filmstarts , accessed January 18, 2010