Transsiberian
	Rating
	Type	Video On Demand
	Audience Rating	R (Restricted)
	Release Date	2009-04-04
	Actor	Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega, Sir Ben Kinglsey, Thomas Kretschmann Woody Harrelson;
	Director	Brad Anderson;
	Length	112 minutes
	Price	Item currently not available
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Description
Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) are the ideal American couple traveling from Beijing to Moscow on the legendary Trans-Siberian Express train. The two strike a bond together with another couple, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara), who are not exactly as they be visible. Unwittingly, Roy and Jessie are caught in a web of drug trafficking and murderous deceit when all four become targets of ex-KGB detective Grinko's (Ben Kingsley) investigation.
Customer Reviews
A SIMMERING POT THAT NEVER BOILS!   2010-06-30
By ! MR. KNOW IT ALL ;-b (TRI STATE AREA)
A good cast in this ode to Hitchcock, but despite creating a sense of fear from the unknown, this suspense film never reaches a fever pitch. Although technically well made, I found the story tedious and really couldn't get engrossed in this film. I like these types of movies and this one showed promise, but in the end it just didn't seem worth the ride. It's the kind of film that may appeal more to some than others.
Snore yawn   2010-05-18
By E. Beckstrom (Indiana, USA)
One of the worst movies I've seen in the last couple of years. Difficult to understand the good reviews of this one. Comparable to Hitchcock, as some have claimed? Are you kidding? Nothing whatsoever happens for the first 45 minutes, except that the woman from one couple and the guy from the other couple give each other all kinds of predictable, sexually charged, boring looks from the across the train car. You want to see sexual tension done right, watch Hitchcock's North By Northwest. You wanna be bored out of your skull, watch TranssiBORErian (sorry, couldn't resist). BTW, heads-up: there is an incredibly graphic torture scene about 2/3 of the way through the movie, in case you don't like that kind of thing.
It could happen to anyone of us !   2010-05-03
By Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
Following a deserved and adventurous stay, Roy and Jessie decide to give their relationship a sudden swift traveling on the Transsiberian from China to Moscow to experience the glamour of distant times (like the well reminded Orient Express). Once the trip begins, they will notice the days of splendor and luxury have gone away and faded like the extinct U.R.S.S. Only cold steel carriages, non so pleasant service personal and taciturn passengers. On the way, they will meet an odd couple : Carlos and Abby who are by far more risky than them at the moment to experience new sensations and emotions. Once they decide to get off the train at one stop, Roy gets separated from the quartet admiring curious landscapes and places of interest. But the things will reach the point of no return when she Jessie realizes Carlos is drug dealer who is pursued by corrupt police officers, headed by Ben Kingsley. An intriguing, exciting and well rounded movie that justifies its inversion.
Wow. This movie sucked. Slow plot, lousy acting and direction.   2010-04-30
By Pat Nava (San Francisco, CA)
Carlos and Jessie made this "slow mover" an absolute stinker. I hated this amateur effort so much, that I don't want to elaborate. Normally, I'd give away spoilers for a movie that sucked as much as this; but it's not worth the effort. Just look at the prices for the used DVDs (108 at 0.43 each) and that will tell you all you need to know.
Transsiberian   2010-03-29
By J. Lindner (Gem Lake, MN United States)
I watched this movie admiring the suspense and drama it invoked. The casting is also above average. The setting is dramatic. The acting is well done. In the end, it is either the writing or the directing that ultimately fails to deliver. An American couple are touring Russia on a cross country rail journey where the encounter drug dealers and corrupt Russian police detectives. At one point the wife kills the drug dealer then tries to go about her journey once reunited with her husband. But then the Russian police detective enters the scene. Played by Ben Kingsley, this is perhaps the best character in the entire movie. Kingsley delivers a powerful performance due mainly to his character's double life of upholding the laws against drug smuggling while working subversively for the drug cartel involved in the heroin trafficking. All of this could have lead to a thiller of an ending. In part this is what happens, but the characters are never willing to come clean with each other regarding exactly what happened. This is too bad because the audience knows way more than any of the investigators or the American husband. For this reason the movie is ultimately stillborn. Woody Harrelson plays the husband and he does an admirable job. It was nice to see him outside of the "White Men Can't Jump" or "Natural Born Killers" roles he's fallen into since leaving "Cheers." But Kinglsey is who ties all the charactes together. Had there been better writing or directing, he could have pulled off the cimactic ending we were all hoping for.