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Film Description
Prison-breakout drama to a Kurosawa screenplay. Jon Voight plays violent, disillusioned life-term prisoner Oscar Mannheim. Escaping an ice-bound maximum security prison with a young rapist he stows away on a train, which - unknown to him - is out of control. Savage, dramatic, relentless, compassionate by turns - an epic and poetic thriller.
At first sight a standard Cannon Group 1980's late night filler. Low to mid budget, first-time Hollywood director, one B list actor (Voight - AAN for this) some regula... more >
At first sight a standard Cannon Group 1980's late night filler. Low to mid budget, first-time Hollywood director, one B list actor (Voight - AAN for this) some regular straight to video players (John P Ryan is terrific), and a couple of up and comings in Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay. The sort of film that fills up that unfillable slot when the curry won't go down and there's still two tins left in the six pack. Look deeper in and the details contradict. Screenplay based on an unproduced Kurosawa script, relentless pacy editing, pounding soundtrack (NO music for 25 minutes, but when it comes...) - sharp script and everyone (especially Voight in his best role since Joe Buck) giving the performance of their lives. All this and more. A plot above all of Aristotelean clarity and construction, with a denouement mixing images of the crucifixion, Shakespeare's Richard III from which Golem/Globus actually cut the sex scene in the interests of art - and you have a potent package. Turn the lights down, turn up the sound and watch on the biggest screen you can find. The most underrated thriller of the last twenty years. < less
