Runaway Train to Hell...

Advantages: Outstanding performance from Voight; exciting thriller with superb use of real trains.
Disadvantages: Brutal, coarse and grim. Not a cheery experience.

...A prison break and runaway locomotive thriller as harsh and unforgiving as its bleak Alaskan setting, "Runaway Train" transcends the unimaginative title to become a little-seen, hard-bitten, brutal, intelligent mini classic. Jon Voight stars as Oscar "Manny" Manheim, a ferocious murderer and bank robber who has been welded into a solitary confinement cell for three years by his nemesis, warden...

Midwinter 06.09.2011 13:31 (06.09.2011 13:33) · Read review
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Review of Runaway Train (DVD)

Runaway train

Advantages: Entertaining, decent acting and direction
Disadvantages: Nothing special

...with a difference - a sense of reality about it without needing a geography qualification to understand the concept. Denzel Washington and Chris Pine play two train operators down on their luck who finds themselves on the tracks, hauling cargo and facing a runaway train at full speed without anyone controlling it. As the authorities and train company find themselves running out of solutions, our two heroes find...

pmcds 02.04.2012 21:15 · Read review
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Review of Unstoppable (DVD)

Runaways

Advantages: Addictive, Good conclusion
Disadvantages: Sometimes Predictable and unbelievable

...V.C.Andrews is known for making a series of books. Usually four separate stories that eventually wind down a road and come together to make a fifth. The orphans' series was no exception. Four books titled Butterfly, Crystal, Brooke and Raven. Runaway brings it to a rocky, tooth rotting and predictable yet required conclusion. I would strongly recommend reading the four separate books before...

ovetta2001 15.04.2007 15:42 · Read review
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Review of Runaways - Virginia Andrews