BEFORE: The Denzel Washington chain rolls on, like...umm, like...something that keeps moving forward in straight line, and crashes through whatever gets in its way. Darn, I wish I could think of a really great metaphor for that.
THE PLOT: With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.
AFTER: This one's pretty straightforward - train gets out of control, try to catch up with train, try to stop train. No surprise plot twists, no hidden meanings, not a lot of excess complex symbolism.
So I don't feel the need to write a lot tonight, since there's really not much to analyze. Sure, there's action - in fact a bunch of stuff blows up real good. There are good characters, though the rookie-working-with-grizzled-veteran thing is a little hokey.
It's not really a NITPICK POINT, more of an observation, regarding the first guy who lost control of the train, then was unable to jump back into the engine's cab to stop it. He gave up pretty easily, without seeming to realize that there were twenty OTHER cars after the engine, and he could have climbed aboard any of them, and then (eventually) made his way to the engine. Nope, he just stands there and lets the other cars pass right by him. That's some quick thinking.
Also starring Chris Pine (last seen in "Star Trek"), Rosario Dawson (last seen in "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief"), Ethan Suplee (last seen in "John Q."), Kevin Corrigan (last seen in "Bad Boys"), Kevin Dunn (last seen in "Nixon") and T.J. Miller.
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