Character mistake: When the front door of the old F-unit is refusing to open the guys put their shoulder to it. The door they are trying to bash outward actually swings into the area where they are standing. If they really wanted to go out that door they should have unlatched it and pulled.
Runaway Train (1985)
1 character mistake
Directed by: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Starring: Eric Roberts, Jon Voight, Kyle T. Heffner, Rebecca De Mornay
Factual error: The train consists of four locomotives, but close ups beaneath the train show the wheels of freight cars.
Rankin: Let me tell you where you assholes stand. First there's God, then the warden, then my guards, then the dogs out there in the kennel, and finally, you. Pieces of human waste. No good to yourselves or anybody else.
Trivia: In the film Eric Robert says jokingly to Sara "Why are we here? I'll tell you why...We're on our way to Las Vegas to see our good friend Wayne Newton." In Best of the Best 2 (1993) Eric Roberts arrives at Las Vegas at the end to stop a fight, which is being hosted by Wayne newton.
Gavin JacksonQuestion: How was Sara so sure that there was no engineer on the train, considering that she was not able to get to the front carriage to find out?
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Chosen answer: Most likely from the speed at which the train was going, a train is like driving any large vehicle. You have to maintain a certain pace, to stop at an instant, for the unexpected.