"[F]ull, fresh, smart, terse, funny, genuinely thrilling and ultimately original..."
Wall Street Journal (11/12/2010)
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Washington and co-star Chris Pine are great together, and up to the task for the unbelievably intense action, pulse-pounding excitement and pure adrenaline high this movie delivers."
Box Office - Pete Hammond (11/10/2010)
"Washington and Pine have a strong, often funny chemistry, the dramatic stakes are raised incrementally, and the interplay between the two leads and the professionals on the other end." -- Grade: B-
A.V. Club - Scott Tobias (11/11/2010)
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The movie is as relentless as the train, slowly gathering momentum before a relentless final hour of continuous suspense. In terms of sheer craftsmanship, this is a superb film."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (11/10/2010)
"A runaway train drama that never slows down, it fashions familiarity into a virtue and shows why old-school professionalism never goes out of style."
Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan (11/12/2010)
3 stars out of 4 -- "The selling points here are jolts. And this movie delivers so hard it shoots off sparks."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (11/11/2010)
"It's all speed, sound, and fury -- and in that, Tony Scott is the right man for the jobs." -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly - Entertainment Weekly Staff (11/17/2010)
3 stars out of 4 -- "Scott paces the film like its mechanized star: deliberately and, ultimately, with enough speed to keep its passengers satisfied."
USA Today - Scott Bowles (11/13/2010)
3 stars out of 4 -- "The director Tony Scott achieves something close to the action movie in its ideal form with UNSTOPPABLE....Scott wisely keeps the premise pure, ratcheting up the tension and raising the emotional stakes without cluttering up the story's sleek lines."
Washington Post (11/12/2010)
4 stars out of 5 -- "[Scott] has pursued every microsecond of big-boned movieness from the proposition....The film feels in sure hands."
Empire - Ian Nathan (11/24/2010)
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a great success -- an expansive, loud, riveting ride that's mercifully light on conspicuous CGI."
Total Film - Tony Horkins (01/01/2011)