Runaway Train is for me one of the best action movies ever made. Basically (spoilers here) the story is about two men who escape from a maximum security prison in Alaska and try to escape on a train. The driver has a stroke and dies, and the train runs without any control.
The director is Russian, and the script is based on an old story by Akira Kurosawa. Therefore, the movie is located on the junction of three different cultures. Fast action and suspense is American; the observations on human behavior put in an extreme conditions are common in Japanese movies; and the confrontation between man and cruel, outrageous nature and fatum controlling human life has its roots deep in Russian culture, Tchaikovsky and Dostoyevsky.
Jon Voight is simply incredible. A cruel, obsessed con whose only human aspect left is constant fight for independence still remains one of his greatest performances. Renken is almost the same, with an obsession of power and control. Eric Roberts also does well here.
Very highly recommended. 10/10.
The director is Russian, and the script is based on an old story by Akira Kurosawa. Therefore, the movie is located on the junction of three different cultures. Fast action and suspense is American; the observations on human behavior put in an extreme conditions are common in Japanese movies; and the confrontation between man and cruel, outrageous nature and fatum controlling human life has its roots deep in Russian culture, Tchaikovsky and Dostoyevsky.
Jon Voight is simply incredible. A cruel, obsessed con whose only human aspect left is constant fight for independence still remains one of his greatest performances. Renken is almost the same, with an obsession of power and control. Eric Roberts also does well here.
Very highly recommended. 10/10.