Runaway Train (1985)
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
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At which point “Snowpiercer” sheds the close-quarters claustrophobia of the first half (which nods to such classic cinematic railway fare as “The Narrow Margin” and “Runaway Train”) in favor of a more expansive vision.
It’s a tradition that runs from Hitchcock’s Lifeboat to the likes of Cube and The Raid (for static, or relatively static locations); and taking in Speed , Runaway Train , Air Force One , and Lars von Trier’s Europa (closed spaces that actually move).
The quest of the bedraggled tail-enders feels like a bloody “The Wizard of Oz” set on a “Runaway Train,” with each section they assault a revelation.
Then there’s Andrei Konchalovsky’s Runaway Train and the hellbent rapture of Denzel Washington and Chris Pine trying to brake the runaway in Tony Scott’s Unstoppable.
If you must, it’s Runaway Train meets Brazil — Kurosawa and Gilliam, together at last.
The best one was probably “Runaway Train,” starring Jon Voight and Eric Roberts .
They always have worked well together, and this film, not to be confused with the 1985 movie "Runaway Train" about two escaped convicts aboard such a vehicle, is no exception.
Two other films that come to mind are Buster Keaton's "The General" (1926) and Andrei Konchalovsky's " Runaway Train " (1985), which won Oscar nominations for the two men in its locomotive, Jon Voight and Eric Roberts .
It's almost impossible to write about a runaway train movie without mentioning Andrei Konchalovsky's 1985 thriller, Runaway Train .
The actors get a lot more to do in the admittedly brisk second half of Unstoppable, but the filmmakers come up with a surprisingly small number of cliffhanger scenarios involving the speeding locomotive: 1985’s Runaway Train, although a dramatically different picture, did infinitely more exciting things with its premise.
That was the year Eric Roberts and Jon Voight starred in Runaway Train, capping off a couple decades worth of movies and made for TV endeavors in which the railroads lose control of a locomotive, sending it willy nilly down the tracks towards a heavily populated area with no way to stop it.
Tomei, vulnerable and warm while digging in her heels, and Burr, casting shadows of John Voigt’s macho prison escapee in “Runaway Train,” is affable and complex beyond the script.
His Snowpiercer remade Kurosawa’s Runaway Train into an Orwellian allegory.