Unstoppable - Why Make It A Fuss?

 (2010) ★★☆☆☆

Talking about a speeding object that turns into a fearsome force in a film, I think of 1994's 'Speed', naturally, that's an awesome action thriller with a cool performance by Keanu Reeves, terrific sound effects, and a gripping setup of stopping a bus that in fact can't be stopped.

Fast speed is what 'Unstoppable' is all about. It's also the drawback of it. This film's 90 minutes long, give or take. And everything goes pretty fast. The runaway train moves fast. Characters speak fast. The buildup is too fast to catch. Sequences change fast. Pictures switch fast. Cameras slide along fast. My eyeballs, therefore, had to move up and down, right and left fast. I was feeling nauseous.

One can image that things are going to be all right in stories like this, but how they stop the moving object in the end still matters. It's based on a true event so it can't be so dramatic and exciting as the fictional 'Speed', but no idea what takes them so long to come up with a plan that they know all along is their only choice to stop the whole thing. They all cheered in the end, but I felt turned off