That was an excellent one.

Better Late Then Never

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

On a Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow an American couple get caught up in a conspiracy of deception and murder when they encounter a mysterious pair of fellow travellers.With a handful of main characters director Brad Anderson offers an American fish out of water thriller with a meandering off beat story by Will Conroy which helps build the tension, especially cultural throughout. There are some shootings, attempted rape and torture, in addition for a low key drug smuggling yarn there are stunts and an impressive train crash. Woody Harrelson interestingly plays against wacky type cast as an everyday nice guy husband of Jessie (Emily Mortimer). Mortimer gives a convincing performance and has some depth which helps sell the situations she finds herself in after befriending drug traffickers Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara).Ben Kingsley is fitting as Grinko, a snooping Russian narcotics officer. Notable is Thomas Kretschmann as Kolzak Yushenkov, Grinko's right-hand man. And Noriega's dodgy Carlos is particularly convincing. While Mortimer steals the show, Mara also well cast as the lead astray out of her depth partner of Carlos. There's plenty of double cross and simmering character dynamics, imposing quiet Grinko befriending the couple to solve his smuggling case. Abby and Jessie's rivalry and Carlos' sexual tension with Jessie to name a few. The atmosphere is reminiscent of Citizen X (1995) with its snowy cold on location feel. Anderson creates some grounded fear and suspense as Jessie is put through the mill in this traditional taut thriller with a few twists. Recommend sleeper thriller.

Far away from a great film. Very intriguing and attractive location in Siberia is always challenging for the audience that you just have to check what is behind that. I love this kind of movies, but there's just too much cliché in the screenplay. Good guys vs bad guys - OK, it is hard to avoid this, but there can be a huge spectrum of this, from way good to super bad. This one is more bad than good. Not to be so harsh I'll say an average. The main protagonists are two quite naive Americans on a charity mission in China. It is kind of naive way as well how they easy connect with 2 very suspicious passengers. Carlos is just too intrusive and Abby doesn't talk at all, at first. Interesting location, countryside, great actors, good plot, but from all these good elements we got nothing but an average TV-movie for a boring rainy afternoon.

I love movies set on trains. And I loove movies set in the snow. Imagine my excitement when I heard there'd be a movie set on the longest train ride in the world, in one of the largest snowy region in the world. And it didn't disappoint. Transsiberian could have easily descended into action thriller clichés and been a letdown, but every character is well written, the story has bite and depth to it, and although it's a nasty, cold hearted affair, it's not without its sympathies. Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer play a vacationing American couple on the transsiberian railway. Harrelson is a naive city bumpkin and plays the role well.. Mortimer is phenomenal, at first seeming like a terrified waif, until we learn bit by bit that she has a few sinister secrets, and is taking a dangerous risk and hiding things from her husband. They meet another couple, played by Kate Mara and Eduardo Noriega, and strike a tenuous, suspenseful bond that leads to violent confrontations and secrets being spilled like blood flying into the snow. Kate Mara is brilliant,striking the perfect balance between edgy and unassuming as an outsider girl who is looking for a way out. Ben Kingsley and Thomas Kretschmann show up as shady Russian narcotics agents, trawling the trains compartments in search of drug smugglers. Kingsley steals the movie with the monstrous characters he creates. This is a ruthless, nasty cop that you just don't want to get in the path of. The film is shot in gorgeous, sweeping white and grey brush strokes, visualizing a desolation and quiet sense of impending danger personified by the vast, cold mountainous landscape. It may not be a perfect film and it falters occasionally, but it's an immensely entertaining genre effort brought to life by its committed actors, it's frank, uncompromising narrative and gorgeous locations that are ever changing as the train meanders through the frozen dreamland of snow, wind and looming, beautiful mountains.

Definitely something different, not your classical American crime movie. The movie really succeeded at making the atmosphere very intense, especially, when Jessie tried to dump the drugs somewhere multiple times. The movie felt very real, nothing too super shocking to make it look like a fantasy world, that's what was great about the movie. Really felt like i was in Russia while watching the movie. And of course - Ben Kingsley speaking Russian :D What can be better for a movie, although, if you can speak Russian, in my case, i found it very funny how he tried to pronounce all the words :D Nowhere close to Russian accent, but that's OK, everyone will forgive Ben Kingsley, of course, since his performance was great in this movie.