Runaway Train

"Runaway Train" isn't just bad -- it's bodaciously bad, grotesquely overblown, lurid in its emotion, big ideas on its brain.

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

Somehow one leaves aside the blatant implausibilities, the coincidences, even Eric Roberts, and takes great pleasure in a breakneck ride to the end of the line.

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.

Runaway Train is a reminder that the great adventures are great because they happen to people we care about.

...a periodically effective yet predominantly tedious misfire that squanders a seemingly foolproof setup.

A rare quality credit for The Cannon Group.

Unpredictably cohesive elements collaborate, unveiling an intensity and underlying poignancy that come as a great surprise considering the cliché action movie title.

It's one of the most beautiful and slickly produced pieces of reactionary junk food cinema ever made, and it's glorious.

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