Runaway Train

based on a screenplay by Kurosawa!! guess Hollywood tampered it a lot... watch it for being a low budget n simple thriller. It is poor technically tho.... Full review

Runaway Train is an amazing look at the best and worst of humanity in one person. Jon Voight gives easily his best performance as Manny, hardened criminal who escapes prison and ends up on a train that is much like his... Full review

This movie is outstanding. It is one for the books; when you see it, you'll never forget it. Jon Voight leads a great cinematic presence in this film, and Eric Roberts plays a magnificent supporting role. In a film about man's... Full review

This is a great movie for everyone in the family. I have watched it 3 times and will see it again. The plot is great and the situation is real. It is a human life situation that could happen at any... Full review

This film seems to have some of the best acting of John Voight has ever done. The movie has speed, thrills, and a hole lot of drama. You have to see this movie... Full review

this is the wost goddamn movie i have ever seen B+!!??!?!?! i wanted to kill my self for the loss of 2 hrs spent watching it... Full review

I 1st saw this nearly 20 years ago as a kid, and I loved it ever since. There arent many movies that have this kind of plot, and it is a very realistic plot that could happen. A great movie with... Full review

This iis a good movie. The acting is a little off due to them trying to sound like rednecks or russians you cant really tell a difference between them. It was sad at the end of course but there are some... Full review

Based on a screenplay by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, "Runaway Train" is bloody, intense and oppressive… It is a movie with arresting images about a notorious life term prisoner who has been welded in a hole for 3 years... Full review

The stock title promises action and suspense, and we get that, but with a story by Akira Kurosawa, expert direction by Russian émigré Andrei Konchalovsky and superior lensing by Alan Hume, we get a study of what defines a man.John... Full review

Complicating matters is the female rail worker (Rebecca De Mornay) they find on the train and the heartless, hateful prison warden (Kyle T. Heffner) who pursues them. Having escaped from a remote maximum security prison in Alaska, two hardened, hyper-fit convicts, Manny (Jon Voight) and Buck (Eric Roberts), hop aboard a southbound train. ... Full Review

These elements might be enough to make " Runaway Train " a superior action movie. The action sequences in the movie are stunning. Runaway Train " is a reminder that the great adventures are great because they happen to people we care about. ... Full Review

Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's second American film may well be the only existential adventure flick in Hollywood history. Once Manny catches on to what's happening, he tries to jump off the train, only to be talked out of such a foolhardy act by railroad employee Sara (Rebecca DeMornay). ... Full Review

Although Speed is a very good movie, Runaway Train is a more complete experience. Best of all, in more than a decade since its release, Runaway Train has aged exceptionally well. Runaway Train belongs to a rare genre: the intelligent thriller. ... Full Review