Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985)
It's pretty wild that Akira Kurosawa wrote arguably the best B-Movie to come from the infamous Cannon Group, Inc. B-Movie stable during its 1980s golden-age.
Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay (as well as John P. Ryan in a somewhat clichéd sadistic prison warden role) all quite clearly overact but play off of each other well. The real star of this show is the eponymous vehicle and the impressive (for its time, obviously) stuntwork surrounding it over the course of the film.
Entertaining enough for what it is but probably would've been better if it had a 15-20% shorter runtime.
It's pretty wild that Akira Kurosawa wrote arguably the best B-Movie to come from the infamous Cannon Group, Inc. B-Movie stable during its 1980s golden-age.
Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay (as well as John P. Ryan in a somewhat clichéd sadistic prison warden role) all quite clearly overact but play off of each other well. The real star of this show is the eponymous vehicle and the impressive (for its time, obviously) stuntwork surrounding it over the course of the film.
Entertaining enough for what it is but probably would've been better if it had a 15-20% shorter runtime.
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