Jon Voight,
Eric Roberts,
Rebecca De Mornay,
Kyle T. Heffner,
John P. Ryan
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Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's second American film may well be the only existential adventure flick in Hollywood history. Two prisoners, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts), escape fro... read more
DVD Release Date: May 15, 2001
Stats: 388 reviews
What an entertaining ride. The dialogue is laughable at times, but what works is the raw storytelling. Loaded with "What's that actor's name?" type actors, it works because the actors want it to work. The plot isn't anything deep other than two convicts on the run on a train w... read more
Jon Voight is a dangerous convict who escapes from an Alaskan prison and hijacks a train. It's quite suspenseful and tragic.
A highly regarded prison escape movie set in the frozen north that is far too steeped in melodrama to be believable, although Jon Voight turns in a typically intense performance through to the pretentious and highly anti-climactic ending.
Wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful, director Andrei Konchalovsky's film rates as a most exciting action epic and is fundamentally serious enough to work strongly on numerous levels.
This was exciting. Roberts' character got on my nerves after awhile, and De Mornay was pretty irritating, but Voight was very convincing in his role. I didn't really like the ending, but otherwise, it was a pretty good movie.
Well made and energetic, the acting all around is generally horrendous. Awesomely horrendous as far as Voight is concerned, his accent was terrible but I loved it and overall the character is memorable. Eric Roberts is horrendous horrendous, his entire performance is annoying. So... read more
Somehow, this remarkable film, which should on the Best Of list for the year it was released and for the decade of every film critic alive, seems to have fallen beneath the radar. Possibly Voight's best performance, De Mornay (who needs to be in more movies) has a pivotal, small ... read more
The nihilism and the vicious intensity of Mr. Voight's performance here are entirely different from anything else he has done on screen; it's a shame those qualities emerge in such a vigorous but disj... Full Review
Runaway Train belongs to a rare genre: the intelligent thriller. Full Review
Runaway Train is a reminder that the great adventures are great because they happen to people we care about. Full Review
A gripping action thriller that's also extremely well acted by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts in Oscar-nominated performances. Full Review
While RUNAWAY TRAIN does balance action and philosophy quite neatly it's still intriguing to wonder how differently Kurosawa would have handled it
Highly unusual drama with single premise: survive the runaway train. A metaphor for us all.
Somehow one leaves aside the blatant implausibilities, the coincidences, even Eric Roberts, and takes great pleasure in a breakneck ride to the end of the line. Full Review
You'll be on the edge of your seat....until it stops
Gets derailed by a mediocre screenplay.
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