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Transsiberian

Transsiberian

2008
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 51m
A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers. (imdb)
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Transsiberian

2008
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 51m
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Rated 18 Dec 2008
65
46th
Good, but dissapointing. It establishes itself as Hitchcockian, and it succeeds in building up a little suspense, and getting you intrigued. Kingsley is great, I've always liked Mortimer, and the cinematography is nice. But its final act dissapoints by not delivering on the suspenseful reveals and twists that you're hoping to see. In the end, it's all quite predictable and mundane. Brad Anderson seems to have this habit of dissapointing endings to what could have been really good movies.
Rated 17 Nov 2008
68
50th
I loved the photography and Ben Kingsley but the rest was too spotty to appreciate fully. Different leads and some subtlety could have done wonders for this film.
Rated 28 Apr 2008
50
19th
This was a solid thriller in an unconventional setting. I won't tell details about the plot and thus spoil your experience but I cannot say that this impressed me much. Good performances by Emily Mortimer and Ben Kingsley, very good performance by Eduardo Noriega. Some brutality, sometimes gripping psychological performance by Mortimer, but the plot was lacking quite a bit, could not really point to where and why, this just was not good enough to get at me.
Rated 22 Jan 2015
81
68th
No-frills thrills, baby. No-frills thrills. Despite one laughably implausible moment this shit is tight and lean like 6 Sigma style. Woody is great as the corn-fed, train enthusiast square trying to prove to his ex-addict/party girl wife that, hey, he's a fun, adventurous guy too, by booking them on a Transiberian trek as part of a church-sponsored Habitat for Humanity deal...told you he was a square. They meet some shady types, things go pear-shaped, but not in the expected way. Worth a stream.
Rated 06 Sep 2008
15
1st
Not a SINGLE genuine moment in the whole film! ...I didn't believe any of it... The essence of 'Contrived'...
Rated 06 Sep 2008
85
86th
As Hitchcockian as we will see in this day and age. 'The Machinist' director Brad Anderson has crafted a gripping, intense vision of what it would be like to be caught on the wrong train at the wrong time.
Rated 13 Oct 2008
64
17th
Feels like a made for TV movie. A few big names give mediocre performances and the story has absolutely no polish. Subtlety could have taken it a long way to make the suspense more genuine, instead everything is so on the nose and predictable. Despite all of this, it's mildly entertaining, but completely forgettable.
Rated 27 Oct 2008
59
48th
I've got a friend who's dreaming about transsiberian train trip. Here's a jolly good road movie about it. The shooting, story and acting, I guess, are well done in details, though you can see what's up to coming (spiced with some surprises on a way). In the end the plot is not the most original and when it is time to knot strings together it fails to impress in larger scale. Entertaining but not the most unforgettable.
Rated 03 Nov 2008
73
70th
For some unknown reason, I am drawn to movies set in vast expanses of snow and icy cold weather, the reason I picked this up. Fortunately for me, 'Transsiberian' ended up being a good thriller ride, with Emily Mortimer's great performance sticking out. Thanks to Brad Anderson though, even if given a chance, I don't know if I would ever want to take the real Trans-Siberian Railway now.
Rated 05 Dec 2008
78
21st
Good but not great. You can't go too far wrong with Woody Harrelson and Ben Kingsley, but as an earlier commenter noted, you can see the plot twists coming a long way ahead. And it starts slow, real slow.
Rated 05 Jan 2009
79
57th
The film has a great build up and strong performances, and while it doesn't completely come together with the ending, it's still satisfying enough to make for a solid enjoyable movie.
Rated 17 Jan 2009
30
15th
Classical safeness illusion/misleading tension/twist/real tension/conclusion formula. There is a cool trail of suspense for the first 20 minutes Kingsley is introduced, it almost feels the movie will pull out of it fine. Before and after that peak, it's a wreck.
Rated 19 Jan 2009
85
80th
Brad Anderson is a great American director that doesn't get enough credit. This is a more straight forward flick than anything he's done, but it's so emotional and so thrilling, which great performances all around, with sometimes astounding (a scene with a train through snow, for example) direction and rock solid cinematography.
Rated 15 Feb 2009
5
57th
A slow-boiling thriller with plenty of tension and a cold, stark, otherworldly setting. Emily Mortimer looks a little too British to be playing American but otherwise lends her character plenty of emotional depth and intensity.
Rated 19 Mar 2009
30
61st
"As he did in The Machinist (2004) and Session 9 (2001), cowriter/director Brad Anderson uses atmosphere to great effect, turning the landscape's heavy historical baggage into an overwhelming presence of dread..."
Rated 25 Jul 2009
45
40th
I thought it would be more about the rail line itself, and less about parroting ridiculous stereotypes about Russia.
Rated 11 Feb 2010
70
51st
A fun, suspense-packed thriller with beautiful shots of Lithuania. It does require for you to suspend your belief, but the payoff is worth it.
Rated 23 May 2010
75
68th
It takes quite a while for the movie to actually start but it's overall quite good. Nothing spectacular but good.
Rated 26 Jul 2010
53
34th
Anderson uses his setting well, and assembles the film crisply, even if he falters in the vital task of building tension. The biggest problem is the script, filled with too many moments that require an unbelievable decision to propel the plot further. The other major misstep is giving Mortimer's character a backstory as a bad girl, a history which is there to set up a couple key plot points, but otherwise doesn't inform the demeanor or behavior of the character in the slightest.
Rated 09 Jun 2011
70
41st
The moment Emily Mortimer opened the door at the end of the train it lost me, but I was really enjoying it until then, I was ready to give it a 9 or something. Anderson is a really good director but his material often leaves a lot to be desired.
Rated 27 Oct 2011
27
16th
The dynamic between the Emily Mortimer & Woody Harrelson characters is interesting and Harrelson really sells his role as a dorky milquetoast well. Unfortunately the movie doesn't leave much to be surprised at, and apart from the setting, the story isn't very compelling. That being said, there are enough good moments to make this worth a once-through.
Rated 30 May 2012
69
38th
"With lies, you may go ahead in the world, but you may never go back."
Rated 28 Nov 2008
55
40th
Premise of this movie was kinda intriguing and even the trailer looked pretty good but the movie fails in execution. All of the characters are act like they have no brains and Brad Anderson never really manages to build up suspension.
Rated 02 Dec 2008
79
70th
interesting and engaging, although it's very hard to relate to the characters. woody harrelson makes a great oblivious goody-two-shoes iowan, even if that makes him quite bland and uninteresting. the rest is picked up by the fairly well written events in the movie.
Rated 06 Jan 2009
40
30th
the longer the movie is the harder the director tries to make it an action movie and hide the sometimes weak plot, the acting is good though and the characters are "nice" too
Rated 09 Feb 2009
41
22nd
The most irritating kind of thriller: the kind where the main character makes nothing but poor decisions, and you the audience are stuck sitting there knowing better, and being infuriated.
Rated 13 Feb 2009
70
57th
A well paced thriller. At times it is predictable but comes along with its share of suspense and twists.
Rated 18 Feb 2009
60
29th
The only thing that saves this is the lovely Emily Mortimer, a fine actress who carries this otherwise poor movie filled with cliches and stupid characters.
Rated 11 Mar 2009
70
76th
Good Movie
Rated 23 Mar 2009
39
23rd
Decent cinematography stands out in this formulaic thriller with a few plot-holes too much to ignore. I was yearning for suspense, sadly this film doesn't offer any. Characters are not interesting in the first place and there is almost no development in them, so a very good cast gets wasted. Occasionally characters' motivation is logically unexplainable. I liked cold and grim setting of the film, but due the poor script and directing my feeling towards this film are the same - cold and grim.
Rated 31 Mar 2009
4
71st
"Decent lead performances, good supports in Ben Kingsley, Thomas Kretschmann and Kate Mara, and a nice-looking but tense setting make up for less-than-orginal plotting."
Rated 22 Apr 2009
80
70th
"Clearly inspired by a few of Hitchcock's 'train-bound' movies, Transsiberian doesn't break a lot of new ground, but it does tell a slick story in a very chilly setting."
Rated 05 May 2009
82
59th
Thrilling movie with a fair amount of tension before everything sort of collapses near the end.
Rated 18 May 2009
60
62nd
Not bad.
Rated 09 Jun 2009
94
45th
Well-acted and all, but I still felt as though I was wasting my time half-way through.
Rated 13 Jun 2009
68
51st
OK, but a bit stereotypical. Add the fact that I didn't sympathise with the protagonists, and you've kind of failed. Should have used russians as russians...
Rated 16 Jun 2009
60
25th
Walking the rope that separates good from bad
Rated 18 Jun 2009
67
21st
Serviceable thriller but Harrelson is miscast and it doesn't push any boundaries.
Rated 20 Jan 2010
85
71st
A solid, Hitchcock-esque thriller. A blast to watch. Each character is delectably nuanced and the interactions onscreen add to the tension of the chase. The next time you're at Blockbuster with no idea what to rent, this will not disappoint.
Rated 08 Mar 2010
25
4th
I really did not like this movie. So much of this movie is driven by Emily Mortimer being retarded. I didn't really like any of it.
Rated 11 Apr 2010
50
55th
The music is great. The rest ... works.
Rated 04 Sep 2010
60
75th
The movie seems to go nowhere, at some point Ben Kingsley shows up, and drugs get involved somehow. Gooooood movie.
Rated 06 Nov 2010
89
60th
I seem to have enjoyed this more than most reviewers here, but that is probably because I don't watch many movies of this type. I don't think Harrelson is a good actor (at all) but there is something about him that makes him work quite well in roles like this. Ben Kingsley, of course, is genius personified.
Rated 16 Nov 2010
84
38th
a recommendable thriller that nearly derails at the end, but stays remarkably unpredictable and believable with appealing characters thrown in as well.
Rated 21 Nov 2010
25
61st
"Transsiberian eventually reveals itself to be scatterbrained thematically." - Nick Schager
Rated 02 Dec 2010
75
74th
Underrated.
Rated 11 Mar 2011
70
77th
Transsiberian gets off to a slow start, but it's something you'll just have to endure. You'll understand by the end of the film why you have to endure it. You need that amount of time with the characters to make anything that happens later on in the film matter. You'll end up caring about them a great deal, which makes one of the latter scenes incredibly difficult to endure. It's certainly a thrilling film, and one that I would suggest watching.
Rated 01 May 2011
74
46th
Pretty good thriller is exceptionally well served by a first rate cast, especially Mortimer in the lead, and typically great Kingsley in support as slick police inspector. Beautifully shot in chilly grey and blue tones which heightens the sense of menace and dread, film is unfortunately let down by occasional gaps in credibility (specifically in the scene which presents the first turning point of the story, and then again towards the climax.) Worth it for Kingsley completists.
Rated 31 Aug 2011
85
75th
Wonderful pictures. A powerful and gloomy film. Anderson created an atmosphere which is colder than Siberia. (-) The story itself is expandable and at the end the movie gets a bit flat.
Rated 19 Sep 2011
37
44th
#11#, story, reviews, casting.
Rated 30 Sep 2011
76
55th
Pretty good thriller. I like the whole tourist feel from it, as I've never been to Russia. Emily Mortimer and Woody Harrelson didn't really have much chemistry. I don't know if it was intended, but Jessie came off really annoying. I can't really put it in to words why, but I did enjoy the movie. I think it was the whole adventure aspect of it.
Rated 31 Dec 2011
78
57th
The combination of high-contrast, rough-edged cinematography, close camera angles and good casting creates an atmospheric confined setting for a sexy and dangerous crime thriller to develop. This is done admirably in the first half, but the script stutters and resorts to throwing wild curveballs as the tension runs out of places to resolve to. The film's finale is a series of "WTF?!?ROFLMAO" moments, but you can't deny its entertainment value. Noriega and Kingsley play their small parts well.
Rated 02 Jan 2012
60
52nd
A really well shot, and overall very watchable thriller. The high-class cast are perhaps not all quite firing on full cylinders, but Kingsley is outright excellent. There's a good amount of tension, and the odd twist, but the ending is perhaps a little low-key and some of the characters choices are really stupid. Not bad at all, but sadly a little to shallow and unsatisfying.
Rated 14 Jan 2012
38
39th
What I learned from this movie: it's A-OK to kill a guy with rotten wood from a decrepit Russian Orthodox church, as long as you are told after the fact that he's actually a drug dealer.
Rated 15 Jan 2012
80
79th
nice story ....
Rated 30 Jan 2012
75
77th
7+ highly recommended
Rated 16 Feb 2012
44
30th
Excellent performances by Mortimer and Kingsley save this otherwise unimaginative film. While the setting is (rather) original, the story goes from OK over bad to simply disappointing at the end...
Rated 12 Mar 2012
65
38th
A standard thriller with mild success. If anything stands out it's Woody Harrelson hamming it up with glee as the "Aw shucks" wholesome Midwest Christian doofus. As it goes on it grows too hyperbolic with its process; the final thirty minutes are too ridiculous and by the end the whole thing feels rather xenophobic more than anything. There is one scene at an old Russian church that stands out as superbly composed, but otherwise it's just another forgettable train movie.
Rated 12 Mar 2012
78
19th
Transsiberian comes as a relief in a sea of botched Hollywood thrillers. The characters really made this story believable, without being predictable; and thrilling, without being over the top.
Rated 07 Jul 2012
60
57th
'Kill off all my demons, and my angels might die, too'.
Rated 08 Jul 2012
65
45th
A fairly effective thriller at times but some strange character choices deflate the realism. Still worth a watch.
Rated 08 Nov 2012
75
53rd
A very cool little train-based thriller that never exactly takes you off guard but keeps the tension high throughout.
Rated 05 Dec 2012
55
43rd
It's like the director read one of those "what not to do when travelling abroad" sections in a travel guidebook and decided to base every character decision on that. Mortimer and Harrelson are so naive throughout the film it becomes a little hard to take seriously after a certain point. Other than that, it's not bad. A serviceable thriller.
Rated 27 Dec 2012
60
61st
Beautifully filmed and superbly acted thriller that, after a slow start, really begins to ramp up the tension. Unfortunately the plot relies on characters (especially Mortimer's) making a series of incredibly stupid and senseless decisions in order to drive it forward. Each time this happens the viewer is jolted out of any sense of immersion and reminded they're watching a film.
Rated 03 Jun 2014
70
40th
Predictable at times, but it got a nice dark atmosphere. Woody is awesome.
Rated 05 Feb 2016
79
67th
I think this is a movie about running from the truth and your past. The main characters begin their journey specifically to run away from the current state of their marriage instead of facing the truth and dealing with it. The train moves further away as secrets begin to unfold to the audience until at a certain point everything collides. I think the wife being a photographer symbolizes the ability to manipulate reality. When this manipulation doesn't go as planned, she deletes the picture bec
Rated 21 Apr 2016
2
46th
On paper pure Hitchock but here too undisciplined, twists and turns became gentle curves and characters changed too quickly, robbing it of tension and authenticity. Harrelson and Kingsley were fun.
Rated 11 Dec 2016
35
9th
Transsiberian, first draft: EXT. RUSSIA - DAY Stupid people do stupid things. The End
Rated 18 Jan 2020
35
11th
Most predictable movie ever seen. Never before have I been able to call each plot point before it happened with such ridiculous accuracy, should've bought a damn lotto ticket after watching.
Rated 05 Jul 2020
64
51st
Transsiberian doesn't offer twists and turns so much as it does slowly mounting tension. After 40 minutes and 2 false starts, the film doesn't speed towards a climax instead exploring consequences as the plot unfolds around the characters. Though this in turn lessens the impact of the finale. Kingsley is excellent and carries the film. The rest of the cast is good, though Mortimer's character's actions are often frustrating though not unrealistic. A little on the nose at times, but engaging.
Rated 23 Sep 2020
44
23rd
Worth seeing to get the impression of a Transsiberian trip. Unfortunately, script is too often cliche and actors unconvincing.

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