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While the pace of events accelerates,the movie keeps turning to unhurried vignettes of its main characters,Mr.Pine's cocky newcomer,Will Colson,and Links of London.Washington's vastly knowledgeable Frank Barnes.Nearly half of Links of London Back to SchooL Chubby Red PenciL Charm minute running time flies by before they tackle their fateful task of averting catastrophe. Here again,the rookieveteran formula is familiar,yet the script,a work of minimalist art by Mark Bomback,turns it into something new."Unstoppable" is not only a prodigy of kinetic energy,but an eloquently understated tribute to working men and women who do their jobs well despite callous or incompetent managers,and to older workers with irreplaceable experience Frank Barnes being a perfect example who face the corporate Links of London Bee Charm of forced retirement.The film is a celebration of expertise,and in more ways than one,given the example of its director. Mr.Scott has been making movies for four decades this is his fifth with Mr.Washington,though his commercial breakthrough didn't come until "Top Gun" in.I have long admired his technical skill,and his gift for working with actors,but have often recoiled from what I've seen as frenetic style in the service of shamelessly manipulative substance.He "holds his audience hostage to runaway technique," I wrote last year on the occasion of his previous film,which was,oddly enough,a Links of London Black And Gold F riendship Bracelet remake of "The Taking of Pelham." It's odd because "Pelham" was also a train movie a hijackedsubway train movie with Mr.Washington as a Transit Authority dispatcher,rather than an engineer.Yet it's also fascinating,because many of the same techniques that Mr.Scott has wielded with such flamboyance in the past and with such hollow results in "Pelham" come together as never before in "Unstoppable."