Review of Unstoppable (2010) by Daniel J — 07 Dec 2011

In short I have to say this is a very good, straightforward disaster/action flick. Effects are nice, although I kind of expected the train to really derail at some point in time, the plot is adequate, the villain is sufficiently stupid to become the hate-object and the heroes are not too bad.

Sure they tried to complicate it a bit with those silly family background stories and there was a few dead moments when the heroes just had to sit around and tell their stories to each other but on the whole it was a very enjoyable movie.

The Blu-ray transfer was of the high quality you would expect from a reasonably high profile movie like this and the, nothing less than earth shaking, LFE from the DT-HS Master Audio soundtrack when that half-mile, 10 000 tons, worth of train thunders through the image was just stunning. I actually whished I had a more capable sub-woofer than the one I got. The Focal one, that I have at the time of writing this, struggles quite a bit below 35 Hz.