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Runaway Train

1985

Andrei Konchalovsky

Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner ...

6.5

5,011

Action. Adventure. Drama. Thriller Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Runaway Train is a reminder that the great adventures are great because they happen to people we care about."	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"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."	NEU
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Runaway Train belongs to a rare genre: the intelligent thriller."	POS
United States	Variety	"Wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful"	POS
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"Runaway Train isn't just bad -- it's bodaciously bad, grotesquely overblown, lurid in its emotion (...) And anyone with a taste for camp will have a glorious good time"	NEG
United States	TV Guide	"The action in this superlative film is relentless and gripping from beginning to end."	POS

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