This may be getting old, but I have to say it -- again.

I hate trailers.

Take the one for "Unstoppable" that has been playing for the past several weeks. It takes a dangerous genre, typically described as "inspired by real events," and reduces it to its basics: Oooooh, big train with no driver, heading toward populated area, with the only two railroad workers having any chance of stopping it hot in pursuit, battling their dip-wick superiors who think they know better ... etc., etc.

And, yes, if you distill the film down, all that is true. But what that distillation doesn't say is just how much style director Tony Scott adds to the mix. The man responsible for such big-thrills entertainment as "Top Gun," "Days of Thunder," "True Romance" and "Man on Fire" has never been as admired as his more artsy brother Ridley Scott, but no nobody makes the kind of high-testosterone cinema any better -- even Michael Bay.

And that's what "Unstoppable" is. It's corny and cheesy and quickly paced with a rock-beat score that virtually erases any sense of subtlety that Mark Bomback's script might conceivably suggest. It's so high-octane, in fact, that you wonder why it wasn't held for summer release.

Good thing that it wasn't, though. For fans of simple (and simple-minded action), "Unstoppable" is just the answer. Scott does just about everything right, including casting a bona-fide actor -- Denzel Washington -- to one of the lead roles.

Just ignore the trailers.

Below: The trailer for "Unstoppable."