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Runaway Train

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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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Mar 31, 1998

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While RUNAWAY TRAIN does balance action and philosophy quite neatly it's still intriguing to wonder how differently Kurosawa would have handled it

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09/01/09
Shane Burridge
Shane Burridge
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03/26/09
Variety

Highly unusual drama with single premise: survive the runaway train. A metaphor for us all.

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03/02/08
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
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01/05/07
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly
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07/14/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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You'll be on the edge of your seat....until it stops

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05/12/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

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01/19/05
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Gets derailed by a mediocre screenplay.

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08/21/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

A real horror: heavy-handed, stupidly gruesome, as claustrophobic as its train cars and prison cells.

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07/04/04
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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04/06/04
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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Jules Brenner
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Cinema Signals

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11/15/03
Rich Cline
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

O vilão é caricato demais, mas Eric Roberts e Jon Voight têm boas atuações. Alguns momentos são eletrizantes, mas outros, apenas bobos.

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07/25/03
Pablo Villaca
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06/14/03
Walter Chaw
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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A great, suspenseful film from director Andrei Konchalovsky before he went Hollywood and on to junk like Tango and Cash.

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01/16/03
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