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Review: Unstoppable

Tony Scott’s directorial output over the past decade has been rife with eye-bleedingly obnoxious symphonies of shakycam shenanigans and over-stylized mishmash. Among the most annoying offenders are his shots in which the camera dollies in a circle at ludicrous speed around something as innocuous as a character sitting at a computer or having a normal, irrelevant inside-voices conversation.

Suffice to say, I was not looking forward to Unstoppable. The last time Tony Scott played with a train set we ended up with the miserable The Taking of Pelham 123. Pelham 123’s opening scenes feature John Travolta in freeze-frame cosplaying as a member of the Village People and set against the dulcet tones of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems.” It is utterly ridiculous.

I braced myself against the seat, awaiting the inevitable wave of thumping bass, freeze frames and joyless camera-tossed-in-a-clothes-dryer action.

Jarringly, it didn’t come. READ MORE!