Featured Audience Ratings

• Carlos M

  
  A solid but conventional action thriller like many others made in the 1980s, oscillating between efficient moments and scenes that simply do not work. Even if relying on a lot of coincidences and with a ridiculous villain, it offers great performances from Voight and Roberts.

• El Hombre I

  
  What an entertaining ride. The dialogue is laughable at times, but what works is the raw storytelling. Loaded with "What's that actor's name?" type actors, it works because the actors want it to work. The plot isn't anything deep other than two convicts on… More
  What an entertaining ride. The dialogue is laughable at times, but what works is the raw storytelling. Loaded with "What's that actor's name?" type actors, it works because the actors want it to work. The plot isn't anything deep other than two convicts on the run on a train without brakes. That's all we really need. Yet, only a few minutes into the opening credits, it drops an unexpected bit of information by revealing that it is based on a screenplay by legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Wha? Perhaps, it explains why this isn't your typical action film, but a great action film. You really get the feeling the train is out of control (as much as it could be on rails) with great camerawork and stunts. It doesn't rely on 100 camera edits a minute, or one explosion after the other or repetitive gunfights with corny one-liners that other action films of the 80's relied on so heavily. Jon Voight is awesome. Keep an eye out for Mr. Blue from Reservoir Dogs. <a href="http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/Decorated%20images/?action=view&amp;current=RunawayTrain1985DVDRipXvidCap2.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/Decorated%20images/RunawayTrain1985DVDRipXvidCap2.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

• Lafe F

  
  Jon Voight is a dangerous convict who escapes from an Alaskan prison and hijacks a train. It's quite suspenseful and tragic.

• xGary X

  
  A highly regarded prison escape movie set in the frozen north that is far too steeped in melodrama to be believable, although Jon Voight turns in a typically intense performance through to the pretentious and highly anti-climactic ending.

• Dean M

  
  Wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful, director Andrei Konchalovsky's film rates as a most exciting action epic and is fundamentally serious enough to work strongly on numerous levels.

• Erin C

  
  This was exciting. Roberts' character got on my nerves after awhile, and De Mornay was pretty irritating, but Voight was very convincing in his role. I didn't really like the ending, but otherwise, it was a pretty good movie.

• Anthony V

  
  Screenplay by Akira Kurosawa.

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