Review of Runaway Train (1985) by Thomas S — 06 Sep 2010

Outstanding, Andrei Konchalovs stunning revamp is only rivaled by Shawshank Redemption.

This review of Runaway Train (1985) was written by Thomas S on 06 Sep 2010.

Runaway Train has generally received positive reviews.

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By Sandy R (121) on 05 Mar 2014

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 15 Jun 2017

It's a great, simple story, and, in the history of action movies, ought to be considered alongside Die Hard and Speed…

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By Jeff H (1,831) on 13 Dec 2014

I had never heard of this film before I stumbled across it on Netflix and now that I've seen it, I'm actually pretty impressed…

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By Rikki S (9) on 10 Jul 2015

If Soul Asylum had done the soundtrack, I might have gone even higher…

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By Steve J (513) on 13 Feb 2015

I'm glad I revisited this film after so many years, because I liked it a lot more this time around…

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By Shawn W (1,705) on 01 Apr 2016

The movie is one of the little gems from the past. Jon Voight in one of his best performances of his career…

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By Bill M (1,080) on 21 Feb 2014

Pure, gritty, prime 80's meat and potato stuff. Jon Voight is incredible in this film, in fact so is Eric Roberts…

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By Matt Mcallister (11) for Future Movies UK (245) on 07 Feb 2014

A thunderous proto-Speed with exploitation trappings, it also works as an existential art movie with a serious director and a dusted-off Akira…

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