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Runaway Train Reviews
Longer and more violent than I anticipated, but sprinkled with some good moments. Voight, Roberts and DeMornay are all good. Not bad.
Heard about this movie from the Adam Carolla podcast. Mr Voight was interviewed, and they discussed this movie. Good watch. The weather would have kicked ALL of their butts on a train. 39 years ago! Hard to comprehend the passing of time. Need to do a dive into Rebecca D's acting resume'. She looked so young and innocent.
Iconic one! It's a very good movie, you can't lose this one!
Much more than your average 80s action thriller (though a perfect one at that), Runaway Train is an existential meditation on what it means to be human. Simultaneously exhilarating--it's pacing is as fast as the titular runaway train--as it is philosophical. The ending is as perfect as they come. Broken, tough guy prison hero Manny is accompanied by buffoonish yet likable Buck in their prison escape, hunted down by obsessive, Captain Ahab-esque prison warden Ranken. Ranken and Manny define each other, mirror images, and their existence is defined by the game they play with one another, and who gets the final victory. Manny hysterically screaming "I won!!!" while barreling 90mph towards his demise is as about as poetic, ironic, and ultimately sad, yet somehow true, as anything I've seen. One of the best 80s flicks out there.
Runaway train is about a train unhinged and hurtling towards disaster through the icy wilderness of alaska. Two law breakers and a stowaway girl who unwittingly choose to ride it must share a common destiny. Aside from the simple premise of convicts making the great escape of their lives and policemen in pursuit, Runaway train engages you in an emotional roller coaster ride through brilliant acting performances from a young John Voight who plays the titular role and his accomplice played by Eric Robwrts. The movie is absolutely about the thrills that puts you in the convicts seat taking the escape ride. However in its short running span of two hours it paints good character stetches of the main protagonists without going overboard on social commentary. Technically it is an accomplished movie. Visually it is an absolute treat to watch with excellent cinematography and beautiful tracking shots in a very inhospitable and difficult terrain to shoot.
Charging forward with the momentum of a locomotive, Runaway Train is another incredible concoction by mad lads at Cannon Films. Being based on an unfilmed Akira Kurosawa script, refined and co-written by Edward Bunker (Mr Blue from fucking Resovier Dogs) and then directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the film is a terrific mix of tightly coiled action and psychoanalysis that remains a wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful watch even now. Before viewing, I only really knew the film in passing due to its influence on Speed and now having watched it, I can confidently say that this is the full embodiment of Dad cinema, I love it. Between the nihilism and the vicious intensity of Jon Voight's performance, the endless charm of Eric Roberts, its outstanding dread-inducing score by Trevor Jones, gorgeous Alaskan photography and spontaneously odd direction, Runaway Train marks not only a high point for Cannon Films but takes great pleasure in delivering a breakneck ride to the end of the line.
I love this movie, it emphasizes what it is like to live as a convict, and I love how the train is shown as a beast. I would recommend this movie to anyone looking for entertainment!
Based on a story by the legendary Akira Kurosawa and directed by Andrei Konchalovsk. Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, and Rebecca DeMornay star in a high speed thriller along the likes of 'Speed' and 'Unstoppable'. In an Alaskan prison called Stone Haven two convicts Manny and Buck are eager to escape. Once they do they board a train hoping to make it scott-free. What they didn't count on what the locomotive having no conductor and it's speeding out of control. So the train is literally a runaway much like them. Manny wishes he could be reformed and he wants Bucky to do the same. Neither of them are sure what to do with their freedom at the moment. A woman named Sara gets caught up in the escapade played by Rebecca DeMornay. She serves as the voice of reason asking these two to work together. Next to that the warden of the prison is hot on their trail but wants to bring them back dead or alive otherwise the prison will be in riot. After all Manny was an idol back in the slammer. The Alaskan setting I like a lot giving you that searing feeling of the cold. You can almost feel the frostbite. The movie has the advantage of constantly moving at break speed so to speak. Exceptional performances by the three leads. It's also very bloody which I was surprised to see. Im pretty amazed how the powerful the music was as well as the ending. Is freedom on the run better than being locked up or dying free? Winning or losing, it's hard to tell the difference. We can act brave but maybe it's only to save face. Despite some implausibilities and logistical issues and some lack of common sense which is funny at times the movie is still intelligent enough to keep you glued to the screen. It's all the characters you see that you care about testing their bravery and redemption. It poses some interesting questions about life and humanity, which explore ideas proposed by William Shakespeare to illustrate the thematic concepts. These moments are when Kurosawa's influence really shines. The central characters are animals in many ways, but they aren't without their moments of pity either. Sadly it's another one of those movies that got overlooked in the shuffle but it really needs some reappraisal today because of its exploration of the human condition and the thrilling set pieces.
The only thing wrong with the high reviews of 1985's RUNAWAY TRAIN, from both the critics and audience, is that they still aren't high enough! This flick's plot is simple but extremely engaging and exciting. Jon Voight and Eric Roberts were both Academy Award nominees for their outstanding performances and the locations and conditions are real; it must have been extremely intense filming this outstanding movie...! ✨🥴👍✨
Far more about the human condition and how we perceive roles of masculinity and identity. I first watched this film when I was 13 on late night 온라인카지노추천 and it left a lasting impression and I still love it.
Liberty is not to have beautiful girls and cars ...
It's an excellent movie, Runaway Train, a 1985 American independent action thriller film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky... The leading characters, Jon Voight and John P. Ryan portray great...
Engaging, but the over the top performance by Voight - and over, or perhaps under, the bottom performance by Roberts - combined with the over-romanticization of various criminal elements... Let Blobbo start over. Movie made good. . Not work as commentary on prison system and too much yelling, silly dialogue, but effects convincing enough to hold attention.
I'm not very fond of 80s action films, but this one is my personal favorite. But yet, I still have to give it a low rating. There's a difference between personal favorites and what is a good movie. What I give this film credit for was its vastly different cinematography than other 80s action films. However, I think that the acting put every character on overdrive and seemed to shove in your face what their personality was. I think if the writers would've pulled the brakes a little on its characters, this could've been a great movie.
It's easy to forget that at one time, before the controversies of paternity and politics, Jon Voight was considered one of, if not the, greatest actors in the world. The same can be said for Eric Roberts in the era before he was in a movie every single week. Runaway Train is a reminder that just how powerful both men can be. It's also a remembrance that Cannon wasn't just the studio of ninjas and Norris. The script came from director Djordje Milicevic, Paul Zindel and Edward Bunker and it was based on an original screenplay by Akira Kurosawa (who worked on it with Hideo Oguni and Ryuzo Kikushima). That's a real pedigree for any movie, much less one that was produced by Golan and Globus. Kurosawa had read an article in Life magazine about a runaway train and worked up his original script, which he intended to make in 1966 for Embassy Pictures in America, but the money kept falling through and he moved on to make Tora! Tora! Tora! Fifteen years later, the Nippon Herald company owned that script and decided to get it made. They asked Francis Ford Coppola to recommend a director and he suggested Andrei Konchalovsky. Konchalovsky had made Maria's Lovers already for Cannon (he'd also make Duet for One and Shy People for Golan and Globus) and he was able to get the studio on board, as well as Voight, who had aided him in receiving his first U. S. work visa. The result? A Cannon film nominated for three Oscars: Best Film Editing, Best Supporting Actor for Roberts and Best Actor for Voight. Oscar "Manny" Manheim (Voight) is a hero to the men of Alaska's Stonehaven Maximum Security Prison. He's almost escaped numerous times and a three-year bid in solitary hasn't dulled his edge or need to be free. After a court order gets him back in general population, he's targeted by the warden (John P. Ryan, who is also in Cannon's Avenging Force, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown and Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection). There's an incredible scene set during a boxing match - look for a young Danny Trejo* - when another prisoner tries to stab Manheim under orders. Even as he's knifed and sliced through his hand, Manheim is a feral animal, walking through the gunfire of the guards and demanding that his would-be killer keep coming after him. All of this means that his next escape plan needs to happen now. He works with Buck McGeehy (Roberts) to scale the wall, run through the snow, swim across a frozen river and take a train across the country to freedom. If only it were that simple. What follows is a train - and Manny - out of control, roaring into the snow-strewn world with the cry of a feral beast, challenging man, nature, machine and fate as the convict would rather choose the victory of death than the defeat of being held within prison walls. I was struck by the final shot as he stands atop the ruined lead engine, arms outstretched and howling at destiny. Rebecca De Mornay is also great in this as Sara, one of the few crew members on the train and an example of humanity in the midst of all this rage. Runaway Train is probably the best film that ever came out of Cannon, if not the most successful at the box office. It never lets up and makes you believe and care about its leads unlike any movie I've seen in years. I can only imagine how excited Golan and Globus were to, if only fleetingly, be the producers of a movie that people took seriously. *Trejo was the Narcotics Anonymous sponsor of one of the production assistants on this movie. He was visiting that person when he was offered a job as an extra. Edward Bunker, who wrote Straight Time and Animal Factory - as well as this film - had been in San Quentin with Trejo and got him hired as Roberts' boxing coach. Konchalovskiy was so impressed with Trejo that he gave him his role. Trejo would later say that he was amazed to earn $320 a day, more than any crime had ever made him.
This is Jon Voight at his absolute best and this s hands down one of the most under-appreciated movie gems you will ever see.
The film's gritty action scenes on-board the Runaway Train are well crafted and exciting plus, the stunts are sensational and the ending is thrilling. But the separate story threads taking place in a prison and also in a railway dispatch center are merely perfunctory. As for the performances: Roberts is typically annoying, and De Mornay's character is frankly pointless. Also, although Voight is powerful in many of his scenes, he's over-the-top in others. His characterization may be atypical to his other roles, but that doesn't automatically make it good. On the other hand, the reliable Ryan appears to be having a lot of fun in his villainous role as the obsessed prison warden. However, the most impressive star-turn in the film is that fearsomely massive locomotive uncontrollably hurtling through the raw Alaskan wilderness. The train trip alone is worth the ride!
When two convicts (Jon Voight, Eric Roberts) escape a maximum-security prison, they board a train and quickly discover that it is barreling out of control through a frozen Alaskan landscape. While the premise is interesting and there are some compelling scenarios faced by the characters, the movie ultimately fails under the weight of its own excesses, which include overwrought performances (yelling constantly does not a good performance make), some ludicrous and laughable dialogue, and the pointless appearance of a stowaway on the train (Rebecca De Mornay), whose character serves no purpose other than to bat her baby blue eyes in times of stress.