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''The Unstoppable'' film series is a American series of action/spy/racing films based on the fictional character of MI6, former (after Unstopable 6) agent Kyle Rogers. In that time Eon Productions has produced 3 films, most of them at Pinewood Studios. As of March 2013, the series has grossed just over US$6 billion, making it the first-highest-grossing film series, and the single most successful adjusted for inflation. Actor Bruce Willis had played the character of Kyle Rogers in all films.
From the release of Unstoppable (1985) to Dr. No (1986), the films were distributed solely by United Artists. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought United Artists in 1983, MGM/UA Entertainment Co. was formed and distributed the films until 1995. MGM solely distributed three films from 1997 to 2002 after United Artists retired as a mainstream studio. From 2006 to present MGM and Columbia Pictures have co-distributed the film series, following the 2005 acquisition of MGM by a consortium led by Columbia's parent company, Sony Pictures Entertainment. In November 2010 MGM filed for bankruptcy; following its emergence from insolvency, Columbia has been co-production partner of the series with Danjaq.
The film series reflects about the Cold War and controversial issues from the U.S.A , Russia, and the Nazi most times featuring the three as main antagonists. After the 6th movie, Unstoppable becomes more of an racing/action film series, as the events of all films led the Agency to be terminated, with Kyle and only an few agents alive, Kyle formed his own team, now consisting of non-agents, as all of them become freelance and out-of-laws in the next films.
== Films ==
===''Unstoppable''===
On Christmas Eve, New York City Police Detective Lieutenant Kyle Rogers (Bruce Willis) arrives in Manhattan to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly (Sigourney Weaver). Rogers is driven to the Nakatomi Plaza building for a company Christmas party by Argyle. While Rogers changes clothes, the party is disrupted by the arrival of Hans Gruber (Gary Oldman) and his heavily armed group: Karl (Earl Schafer), Franco (Tony Campos) Tony (Orlando Boldrini) Theo, Alexander, Marco, Kristoff, Eddie, Uli, Heinrich, Fritz, and James. The group seize the tower and secure those inside as hostages except for Rogers who manages to slip away, armed only with a service pistol.
Gruber singles out Nakatomi executive Joseph Takagi claiming he intends to teach the Corporation a lesson for its greed. Away from the other hostages, Gruber interrogates Takagi for the code to the building's vault as Rogers secretly observes. Gruber admits that they are using terrorism as a distraction while they attempt to steal $640 million in bearer bonds in the vault. Takagi refuses to cooperate and is executed by Gruber. Rogers accidentally gives himself away and is pursued by Tony. McClane manages to kill Tony, taking his weapon and radio, which he uses to contact the Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. Al Powell (Brad Dourif) is sent to investigate. Gruber sends Heinrich and Marco to stop Rogers, but Rogers manages to kill both. Powell, finding nothing strange about the building, attempts to leave, but Rogers drops Marco's corpse onto Powell's car, alerting the LAPD who surround the building. Rogers takes Heinrich's bag containing C-4 explosives and detonators.
A SWAT team assaults the building with an unarmed M8 Greyhound armored car but the attack is anticipated, and James and Alexander destroy the car and massacre the SWAT team with rockets. Rogers uses the C-4 to blow up the building floor occupied by James and Alexander, killing them both. Holly's coworker Harry Ellis attempts to mediate between Hans and Rogers for the return of the detonators. Rogers refuses to return them, causing Gruber to execute Ellis. While checking the explosives attached to the roof, Gruber is confronted by Rogers. Gruber passes himself off as an escaped hostage and is given a gun by Rogers. Gruber attempts to shoot Rogers but finds that the gun is unloaded. Before Rogers can act, Karl, Franco, and Fritz arrive. Rogers kills Fritz and Franco, but is forced to flee, leaving the detonators behind.
FBI agents arrive and take command of the police situation outside, ordering the building's power be shut off. The power loss disables the vault's final lock as Gruber had anticipated. Gruber demands that a helicopter arrive on the roof for transport—his intention is to detonate the explosives on the roof to kill the hostages and to fake the deaths of his men and himself. Karl, who is Tony's brother, finds Rogers and the two fight, with Karl seeking to avenge Tony's death. Meanwhile Gruber views a news report by Richard Thornburg that features Roger's children, causing Gruber to realize that Rogers is Holly's husband. The terrorists order the hostages to the roof, but Gruber takes Holly with him to use against Rogers. Rogers seemingly kills Karl and heads to the roof. He kills Uli and sends the hostages back downstairs before the explosives detonate, destroying the roof and the FBI helicopter.
Theo goes to the parking garage to retrieve their getaway vehicle but is knocked unconscious by Argyle who had been trapped in the garage during the siege. A weary Rogers finds Holly with Gruber and his remaining men and knocks Kristoff unconscious. Rogers surrenders his machine gun to spare Holly, but then distracts Gruber and Eddie by laughing, allowing him to grab a concealed handgun taped to his back.Rogers shoots Gruber in the shoulder and then kills Eddie. Gruber is sent crashing through a window. Gruber prevents himself from falling by holding onto Holly by her watch. Rogers manages to release the watch and Gruber falls to his death on the street below.
Rogers and Holly are escorted from the building and meet Powell in person. Karl emerges from the building disguised as a hostage and attempts to shoot Rogers, but he is gunned down by Powell. Argyle crashes through the parking garage door in the limo. Thornburg arrives and attempts to interview Rogers, but is punched by Holly. Rogers and Holly are driven away by Argyle.
An post credit scene sees an woman named M (Judi Dench), who tells to him that she saw his work, and pretends him to work with the Agency.
===''Unstoppable 2''===
John Strangways (Malcolm McDowell), the British Intelligence (SIS) Station Chief in Jamaica, is ambushed and killed, and his body taken by a trio of assassins known as the "Three Blind Mice". In response, British agent Kyle Rogers is summoned by M (Judi Dench), an mysterious woman working to the Agency.Rogers then is headed to the Agency's location, just to find that it's an secret intelligence underground base in London. Rogers reluctantly agrees to be part of the agency, but accepts in the end.
Upon his arrival at Kingston Airport, a female photographer tries to take Roger's picture and he is shadowed from the airport by two men. He is picked up by a chauffeur, whom Rogers determines to be an enemy agent. Bond instructs him to leave the main road and, after a brief fight, Rogers starts to interrogate the driver, who then kills himself with a cyanide-laced cigarette.
During his investigation in Strangways' house Rogers sees a photograph of a boatman with Strangways. Rogers locates the boatman, named Quarrel (Ed Harris), but finds him to be uncooperative. Rogers also recognizes Quarrel to have been the driver of the car that followed him from the airport. Bond follows Quarrel and is about to be beaten by him and a friend when the fight is interrupted by the second man who followed Rogers from the airport: he reveals himself to be CIA agent Felix Leiter and explains that not only are the two agents on the same mission but also that Quarrel is helping Leiter. The CIA has traced the mysterious radio jamming of American rockets to the vicinity of Jamaica, but aerial photography cannot determine the exact location of its origin. Quarrel reveals that he has been guiding Strangways around the nearby islands to collect mineral samples. He also talks about the reclusive Dr. No, who owns the island of Crab Key, on which there is a bauxite mine: the island and mine are rigorously protected against trespassers by an armed security force and radar.
Having detected radioactive traces in Quarrel's boat, where Strangways' mineral samples had been, Rogers convinces a reluctant Quarrel to take him to Crab Key. There Rogers meets the beautiful Honey Ryder (Jennifer Tilly) dressed only in a white bikini, who is collecting shells. At first she is suspicious of Rogers but soon decides to help him, leading them all inland to an open swamp. After nightfall they are attacked by the legendary "dragon" of Crab Key which turns out to be a flame-throwing armored tractor. In the resulting gun battle, Quarrel is incinerated by the flame-thrower whilst Rogers and Ryder are taken prisoner. Bond and Ryder are decontaminated and taken to quarters before being drugged.
Upon waking they are escorted to dine with Dr. No. (Woody Allen) He reveals that he is a member of SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) and plans to destroy UN with his atomic-powered radio beam. After dinner Ryder is taken away and Bond is beaten by the guards.
Rogers is imprisoned in a holding cell but manages to escape through a vent. Disguised as a worker, Rogers finds his way to the control centre, a multi-level room full of high-tech instrumentation with an atomic reactor set into the floor, overseen by Dr. No from a command console. Bond overloads the nuclear reactor just as the American rocket is about to take off. Hand-to-hand combat ensues between Rogers and Dr. No; the scientist is pushed into the reactor's cooling vat, in which he boils to death. Rogers finds Ryder and the two escape in a boat just as the entire lair explodes.
An post-credit scene shows Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) assigned with M (Judi Dench), with an letter from an secret mastermind known as Question, whom plans to cause an war of panic in the world.
===''Unstoppable 3: The Revenge''===
In New York City, a bomb detonates destroying the Bonwit Teller department store. A man calling himself "Simon" (Jeremy Irons) phones Major Case Unit Inspector Walter Cobb of the New York City Police Department, claiming responsibility for the bomb. He demands that "The Agency" agent Kyle Rogers (Bruce Willis) be dropped in Harlem wearing a sandwich board that says "I hate niggers", so M (Judi Dench) takes him to the demanded place Harlem shop owner Elijah Bones (Samuel L. Jackson) spots Rogers and tries to get him off the street before he is killed, but a group of offended black men attack the pair, who barely escape. Returning to the station, they learn that Simon is believed to have stolen several thousand gallons of an explosive compound. Simon calls again demanding Rogers and Bones put themselves through a series of "games" to prevent more
explosions.
Rogers and Bones are instructed by Simon to travel to Wall Street station 90 blocks south, within 30 minutes to stop a bomb planted on a Brooklyn-bound 3 train. Rogers succeeds in locating and throwing the bomb off the train but it detonates, causing the rear car of the train to derail, demolishing many of the station's support columns. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents tell Rogers that Simon is Simon "Peter" Gruber, brother of Hans Gruber (Gary Oldman), whom Rogers killed in the first film. During the debriefing, Simon calls again claiming that another bomb is planted in one of the city schools, and is sensitive to police radio signals. As Rogers and Bones are forced to complete more riddles to identify the school, the police organize a citywide search of schools, and shut down the police radio band.
After overhearing a chance remark by a passerby, Rogers realizes that he and Bones are being distracted to keep them away from Wall Street; Simon is planning a heist. Returning downtown, he finds Simon's men − disguised as cops, businessmen, construction workers, and guards − have raided the Federal Reserve Bank of New York via the damaged subway station and made off with $140 billion of gold bullion in 14 stolen dump trucks.
After killing Simon's henchmen at the bank, Rogers trails the dump trucks to an aqueduct in the New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 and captures one of the trucks. Simon destroys a cofferdam, flooding the tunnel; Rogers is thrown clear through a vertical air shaft, and he regroups with Bones. They continue to follow the dump trucks to a tanker, but are captured attempting to board. The police locate and attempt to evacuate the school they think the bomb is in. As the timer reaches zero, the police discover that the bomb is a decoy. Rogers and Bones find that Simon has used the remaining explosive to rig the tanker to explode, which would send the gold to the bottom of the sea. Simon leaves the tanker, leaving Rogers and Bones tied up next to the bomb, but they escape from the ship before it detonates.
As they regroup with the police and have their wounds treated, Rogers theorizes that there was no gold on the ship, which ultimately proves correct as it was replaced with scrap metal, and Simon has escaped with the gold. While phoning to make amends with his estranged wife Holly, Rogers realizes an aspirin bottle given to him earlier by Simon gives an address in a border town of Quebec. Rogers and Bones alongside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid the warehouse where Simon and his men are preparing to distribute the gold. Simon escapes in a helicopter, attempting to shoot Rogers from the air, but Rogers shoots a power line which hits the helicopter and destroys it, killing Simon. Bones joins Rogers and convinces him to finish his call to his estranged wife Holly at a nearby pay phone.