Runaway Train: Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy. With Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner. Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.
“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”– Shakespeare’s King Lear Man versus machine action movie grounded in reality.Runaway Train(1985) is one of the best action thrillers of the 1980’s, it’s got depth plus fierce snowstor...
Ugly, explicit dialogue makes Stonehaven seem a real hellhole. The movie has the tone of a Paul Verhoeven picture without Verhoeven’s off-putting excesses. What amazed viewers in 1985 was the apparent realism — CG Imagery hadn’t yet compromised the notion of ‘suspension of disbelief.’ We ...
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Though it contains elements of a typical 1980s American action movie, on closer inspection, Andrei Konchalovskys 1985 film, Runaway Train, proves far from typical. In interviews, Konchalovsky draws parallels between the filmbased on an original screenplay by Akira Kurosawaand philosophical themes in...
These elements might be enough to make “Runaway Train” a superior action movie. What makes it more than that are the dynamics inside the cab of the train. Voight is seen as a man who is intelligent enough to realize how desperate his situation is – because he has been caught not jus...
Andrei Konchalovsky’sRunaway Traininflates a simple action-movie premise—two escaped convicts hide out on a freight train that goes out of control—into pseudo-philosophical camp, with Eric Roberts and Jon Voight shouting at each other in bizarrely mannered accents for much of the running time...
A relaxing train ride suddenly turns into a zany, free-ranging adventure through ever-changing and rearranging cartoon scenes. You'll quickly learn that anything can happen in this out-of-control animated world. But don't worry, with friends like Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, you're bound ...
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