Unstoppable

Unstoppable (2010) is Tony Scott's action thriller you can watch online on iFILM, headlined by Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. The story grew out of a real runaway-freight scare that once unfolded across Ohio.

A half-mile of steel barrels down the track with no one at the controls. The tankers are loaded with toxic chemicals, so a derailment near any town would turn into a disaster. Two railroad men decide to chase it down: Frank, a veteran engineer (Washington) weeks from a forced retirement, and Will, a rookie conductor (Pine) still proving himself. Yardmaster Connie, played by Rosario Dawson, fights the clock from the control room while the company brass worry more about liability than lives.

Scott shoots the whole thing as a real-time machine: jittery handheld camera, hard cuts, the scream of metal at close to a hundred miles an hour. It turned out to be the director's final feature. Light on speeches, heavy on momentum. Stream Unstoppable (2010) online on iFILM.