1 million tons of steel. 100 000 lives at stake. 100 minutes to impact. Frank (Denzel Washington) works as a train engineer & has done so for a while he’s an average guy just trying to put food on the table for his family. Will (Chris Pine) is fresh out of training & joins Frank on his day. They’re not the best of friends & aren’t particularly suited to each other. The pair are about to be united on a mission a deadly mission. An unmanned train is hurtling down the tracks toward a populated town & the train has no brakes. To make the matters worse the train is filled with toxic chemicals. Everyone is at a loss what to do until Frank decides it’s his duty to stop the train. Will unwillingly joins him & together they formulate a plan to stop the train before it decimates the nearby town.