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ooooooooooooooooooooo o llQouIss On your bithday after X 4 PM. Must be 16 or 0 7w over & show I.D. A (7 0 0 A. v. V lunawav I s ain wastes xaoem, erails on film's predictable track Now serving beer, wine and cocktails! Steaks Chicken Fish Salad Bar 55th & "O" 488-8988 0 0 0 0 0 By Geoff Goodwin Staff Reporter escaping, something Manny has already done twice before. With the help of Buck, played by Roberts, Voight manages to escape. Surprised? . The two then hoo a freight train 0 Open 1 1-9Sun.-Thurs. 0 IMOFri.-Sat. ooooooooooooooooooooo in "PinuiriHi'iwi 1 it. ft :. m fc 0 3 D D D D D Things like Guacamole or Mozarella and many more trimmings make Chesterfield's Burgers Sensational. ounaay it s z-fcks g I From 5-10 pm Buy any burger at reg. price and receive 0 the Second Burger FREE. D D Lower Level Gunny's Mall 13th & "Q'n 1 3 C3 C3 I T1IE STUDENT SURVIVAL STORE ""lililMjLii ' Mishdob Right, LHt er Difk Lcv.'cnti'CL! or LcvnbfaU Dirk 12 pick (vsm) 5.49 Cm (v::rni) .... I0.69 Mr. Hasten 750 pi. .....'5.79 Offsr thresh Feta 1 cr whsb ;j:nt!l!ss fest. If Winston Churchill had been a film critic he might have said of "Runaway Train," "Never has so much acting tal ent been assembled for such a terrible mnvifl " That's an arguable point, of course. The rest of the movie is devoted to Many great actors have been in some the adventures of our heroes on the )ow-wow movies, but you get the point, train and the pursuit of the pair by .............MaMH Ragan. The intense rivalry between Manny and Ragan is the most interesting part of the film. It probably would have worked better had Mannv staved in Dri- Jon Voight and Eric Roberts are the son and had to deal with Ragan there. ....... . n . .... ., ,t i' i it. x In addition to being one of the finest actors around, Voight is also one of my favorite actors. So it was all the more disappointing watching him plow his way through this dog. Voight tries to sound like a combina- Movie Review stars of this film, and Rebecca DeMor- nay has a small role. Even these tal ented actors can't save this film from derailing. Voight plays Manny, a tough con who v..--- r O JYJlfyklV VVJ VV lvv-..- which becomes drum rolls please tinnnfSlv Stallone and Marlon Brando, tk. "DTTKTAUTA V TT? ATWlt" u 1, Mnnn Soei 1 r r- nc o n ' to be a hero to the other convicts but he is, at best, an (unprintable) and, at worst, as Ragan describes him, "an animal." Manny is just not a sympathetic character. There's no difference between him and Ragan. Both are brutal men obsessed with their personal duel. Nothing else matters. Roberts wears very thin as Buck. He usually plays whining characters, but this time he goes too far. It should be noted that Voight won a As it is, our attention is divided between their rivalry and the action on the train. If you like trains and snow-covered mountains you might like the train scenes. Otherwise there is little to offer Vino Knan in cnlifomr nnnfinomont at kntnuea ourVl eianac QPO VOPU nrpHir- Golden IjlODe aWaTQ IOr 11S PCrlOr iiao urcii 111 ouukcuj uiiiiiiniviiL a uctauog outfit pvvhku v vj jv.v I j e Alaska's Stonehaven prison for three table. mance and the film was nominated for years. Finally, as happens so often in DeMornay plays an engineer's assis- best picture m the Golden Ulobe corn backwater states, a federal judge orders tant who is also trapped on the "runa- petition. So somebody likes it. that the prisoner be allowed to mix way train." For all that it adds to the My hope, however, is that this train with the rest of the inmates. film her part could have been played by chugs out of town as quickly as possible. Captain Ragan, the chief of security, Marcel Marceau. Her talent is wasted If you want to get on board, the train is determined to keep Manny in this role. Q If ST7REO KYROK AND 20R6 CO To THE 5ETC0MD FDcA To retrieve: thfir 5T0LM ftWURF. from The StcoNb MYROW... flNO n5-C T( pulls out of the State Theatre. TwHERE PlRE 111 "IH06E cOUWQe H I'm SiVooAiMP KmiblyTo Hill NEXrwEEK HAPPY HOUR ALL DAY EVERY DAY!! FEBRUARY 1986 SUN WON TUE WED SAT Mon,Sat. U-l AM. Sun. 6-U PM SPECIAL Mon.-Fri. 46 PM 32 oz. Pitchers $125 60 oz. Pitchers $2.00 CO u $2.00 Bar Gin 75 9 5, 32 01 Pitchers $1.25 16 Bar Bourbn 23 75' Miller Lite ! 75c Bush 75c 10 17 Bar Vodka 75 40 Draws 24 Bar Scotch' ! 75 Natural Lite 11 75' Ribbon 18 75' Bar Vodka 25 75- Bar Tequilla 5 75 12 oi Frosty 50 12 Blue lamakazie 75' 79 Bud 75l 26 Schnapps 75 6 Wine Coolers 13 $1.00 20 Bar Scotch 75' 60 oi Pitchers 27 $2.00 Jack Daniels 7 $1.00 Millers 75l 14 Bud 75' 21 Miller Lite 28 '5 Kamakazie 75 1 Bar Rum 75 8 RQSir Bud Lite Juirjf5 75 70 Ees We m 75 22 1624 "0" St. 435-4582 Daily Nebraskan Thursday, January 30, 1986
