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Runaway Train
Escaped convicts (Jon Voight, Eric Roberts) and a stowaway girl (Rebecca De Mornay) find themselves trapped on a train speeding out of control through Alaska with no brakes and nobody driving.
2 July 1932, Brooklyn, New York, USA
31 March 1939, Kern County, California, USA
1 October 1938, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 July 1957, Blythe, California, USA
29 August 1959, Santa Rosa, California, USA
27 June 1923, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
30 July 1936, New York City, New York, USA
February 07, 2014
A thunderous proto-Speed with exploitation trappings, it also works as an existential art movie with a serious director and a dusted-off Akira Kurosawa script.September 01, 2009
While RUNAWAY TRAIN does balance action and philosophy quite neatly it's still intriguing to wonder how differently Kurosawa would have handled itMay 20, 2003
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 disjointed film.May 12, 2005
You'll be on the edge of your seat....until it stopsJanuary 01, 2000
Runaway Train is a reminder that the great adventures are great because they happen to people we care about.February 09, 2006
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.January 02, 2016
A terrific mix of tightly coiled action and psychoanalysis that has no place in a genre film from the '80s, but works splendidly regardless.January 01, 2000
Runaway Train belongs to a rare genre: the intelligent thriller.June 23, 2011
A gripping action thriller that's also extremely well acted by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts in Oscar-nominated performances.August 21, 2004
Gets derailed by a mediocre screenplay.March 26, 2009
Wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful, Andrei Konchalovsky's film rates as a most exciting action epic and is fundamentally serious enough to work strongly on numerous levels.March 02, 2008
Highly unusual drama with single premise: survive the runaway train. A metaphor for us all.