Andrei Konchalovsky
A 30 secondi dalla fine

In 1985, Andrei Konchalovsky, the one behind "Maria's Lovers", (lol) "Tango & Cash", and "Il proiezionista", creates one of my all-time favorite films, one of those I never tire of watching, that every time it's on TV, I toss the remote away.

Manny, played by a MASTERFUL Jon Voight delivering one of the most phenomenal performances ever (for me, it's the peak of his career, makes the Stallone of "Lock Up" seem like a nun) and the young Buck, a convincing Eric Roberts, are imprisoned in Stonehaven, a maximum-security prison in Alaska commanded by Danken John P. Ryan, a truly ruthless warden, worse than the villains he himself controls.

After 3 years of harsh and unjust segregation imposed by Danken, Manny decides to escape and the young Buck wants to follow him. An old man and a young one, the pupil and the master, a father and a son, perhaps, but never two friends. Buck is a great admirer of the extraordinary and invincible Manny, tougher than granite, Bronson among the ice, and wants to prove to Manny and to himself all his worth.

The escape is successful, they are on the run, they get on a train but there's a problem, a big problem... 

An extraordinary escape/disaster movie among the ice. A tough, relentless film, few actors, no frills, zero winks.

Life is hard, escaping among the ice even more so, and Manny accepts no forms of wavering, he truly seems to have no heart. It's too much for the young Buck who nonetheless doesn't give up and once embarked on this impossible enterprise, he doesn't intend to back down.

Meanwhile, Danken, furious, is on their trail while the train races ahead and never stops.

Surrounding them is snow, the cold, the merciless nature frames the mad dash of the train carrying the two escapees and a girl who finds herself on the train by mistake, like the two of them.

It's a film that never lets you go, the tension is at its peak, Manny nails you to every shot. Conflicts explode outside and inside the train and there truly seems to be no solution to the big problem mentioned above.

We are now 30 seconds from the end...

Even the fiercest beast has a minimum sense of pity, but I have none, because I am a man