While RUNAWAY TRAIN does balance action and philosophy quite neatly it's still intriguing to wonder how differently Kurosawa would have handled it
Runaway Train (1985)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:19
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An existential action thriller about two escaped convicts -- Manny, a hardened lifer, and Buck, a petty criminal -- who jump a four-engine work train, hoping to ride it to freedom. When the... An existential action thriller about two escaped convicts -- Manny, a hardened lifer, and Buck, a petty criminal -- who jump a four-engine work train, hoping to ride it to freedom. When the engineer is killed, the convicts find themselves aboard a runaway train hurtling through the frozen Alaskan wilderness. Pursued by a brutal prison warden who will stop at nothing until they're caught, Manny and Buck, with the help of female railroad worker, struggle to bring the train under control before it crashes. [More]
Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle Heffner
Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle Heffner
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
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Reviews for Runaway Train
Highly unusual drama with single premise: survive the runaway train. A metaphor for us all.
A real horror: heavy-handed, stupidly gruesome, as claustrophobic as its train cars and prison cells.
O vilão é caricato demais, mas Eric Roberts e Jon Voight têm boas atuações. Alguns momentos são eletrizantes, mas outros, apenas bobos.
A great, suspenseful film from director Andrei Konchalovsky before he went Hollywood and on to junk like Tango and Cash.
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