What a dumb film. The characters are awful and the plot is just stupid, goes really over the top and gets kinda pretentious, especially the ending. It even ends with flowery church music and a Shakespeare quote. Is it suppose to be a joke or something? Directed by a Russian, I think his only english film, and written by a strange group including Akira Kurosawa. Bizarre.

Jon Voight always plays such a great psycho. The nihilism and viciousness of his character make this movie as engaging as it is. It's otherwise an entertaining action/thriller, with some great, intense sequences.

You're an animal! No, worse. human. filming this movie must have been a nightmare. it was done so well. the start and build is slow and not that special. but then it gets philosophical and suprisingly meaningful in the last act. and it makes up for the whole movie. but i wished we got to see more of that in the early parts of the movie too. but it didnt.

Very good, borderline great. Starts strong with a grindhouse feel, depicting a rural jailbreak in the dead of winter. After the plot is fully revealed it sadly peters out little-by-little. Jon Voight carries the other actors here. The ending is good, but again, not great.

A classic disaster movie that becomes special due to the brilliant performance by John Voight. A classic that still works today.