(He’s middle-aged.) He has a pair of daughters he openly adores. A veteran engineer who’s been making runs on Rust Belt tracks for three decades, Frank is less a character than a collection of bits and pieces pointing to an idea of character. Such is the case in “Unstoppable,” where, with the volume turned down, he portrays the calm, seemingly unremarkable Frank Barnes. Scott’s films he plays men of conscience.
Washington himself excels at playing dangerous men, but in Mr. Washington’s Everyman stodginess with Mr. The remake didn’t have the grit or graffiti of the 1974 original, but it had its pleasures, including the odd-couple harmonizing of Mr. Scott’s remake of “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” as an ethically clouded subway dispatcher who redeems himself by taking down John Travolta’s hijacker. The two men have made five movies together, including this new one, which suggests that they have developed a camaraderie along with an apparent fondness for trains. Washington and some certainly more entertaining than a hydraulic excavator.
Scott directs some of the biggest action machines in Hollywood, some with Mr. Or as “Big Bigger and Biggest” promises, “the biggest machines in action!” The picture book “Big Bigger and Biggest Trucks and Diggers” comes with what its publisher describes as “an action-packed 30-minute DVD so children can watch their favorite machines at work, digging, hauling, and dumping.” Although it clocks in at 68 minutes longer and features big trains instead of big trucks - along with a long-haul star in Denzel Washington - “Unstoppable,” the latest from Tony Scott, brings to mind those popular peewee entertainments that allow youngsters to explore the world of backhoes and soil compactors.
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