Runaway Train (1985)
Country: US
Technical: col 111m
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca DeMornay
Synopsis:
Two escaped convicts board a train in the frozen north of America and find themselves unable to get off.
Review:
A Russian director and a Kurosawa script idea whet the appetite, but the minute you see this is a Golam-Globus production presentiments of Avalanche Express/Cassandra Crossing thud and blunder begin to form. In the end its clenched determination to be something significant does yield rather more pluses than minuses: there's a Peckinpah-style identification between society outcast and outcast lawman nemesis, and a hard-to-miss analogy between the Voight character and the unstoppable train with which he grapples. And if one were still unaware of the film's ultimate direction, the closing quotation from Richard III and the admixture of Vivaldi's Gloria to the general electro-beat soup are there to rouse the torpid and confuse the oblivious.
Country: US
Technical: col 111m
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca DeMornay
Synopsis:
Two escaped convicts board a train in the frozen north of America and find themselves unable to get off.
Review:
A Russian director and a Kurosawa script idea whet the appetite, but the minute you see this is a Golam-Globus production presentiments of Avalanche Express/Cassandra Crossing thud and blunder begin to form. In the end its clenched determination to be something significant does yield rather more pluses than minuses: there's a Peckinpah-style identification between society outcast and outcast lawman nemesis, and a hard-to-miss analogy between the Voight character and the unstoppable train with which he grapples. And if one were still unaware of the film's ultimate direction, the closing quotation from Richard III and the admixture of Vivaldi's Gloria to the general electro-beat soup are there to rouse the torpid and confuse the oblivious.
Country: US
Technical: col 111m
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca DeMornay
Synopsis:
Two escaped convicts board a train in the frozen north of America and find themselves unable to get off.
Review:
A Russian director and a Kurosawa script idea whet the appetite, but the minute you see this is a Golam-Globus production presentiments of Avalanche Express/Cassandra Crossing thud and blunder begin to form. In the end its clenched determination to be something significant does yield rather more pluses than minuses: there's a Peckinpah-style identification between society outcast and outcast lawman nemesis, and a hard-to-miss analogy between the Voight character and the unstoppable train with which he grapples. And if one were still unaware of the film's ultimate direction, the closing quotation from Richard III and the admixture of Vivaldi's Gloria to the general electro-beat soup are there to rouse the torpid and confuse the oblivious.