Runaway Train (1985) ****

"I could stand on my head nine months."

"God, don't kill them. Let me do it."

"I need some fuckin' shoes."

Tense, gritty, beautifully scored, over the top, occasionally very funny, occasionally quite moving, and always incredibly entertaining. Runaway Train (1985) is a strange bird—a Cannon film, based on an Akira Kurosawa screenplay, made by a distinguished Russian director (Andrei Konchalovsky), full of larger than life performances (and ridiculous accents) by Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, and John P. Ryan, requiring a great deal of suspension of belief. Somehow it all works wonderfully.