Woody Harrelson,
Emily Mortimer,
Ben Kingsley,
Kate Mara,
Eduardo Noriega
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When an American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) traveling from China to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway meets an outwardly friendly couple (Eduardo Noriega and Kate Mara) traveling t... read more
Directed by: Brad Anderson
Release Date: July 18, 2008
Keywords:
suspense,
ben kingsley,
emily mortimer,
woody harrelson,
brad anderson,
Ben Kingsley ,
Emily Mortimer ,
Woody Harrelson ,
Brad Anderson
DVD Release Date: November 4, 2008
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February 14, 2012This calm, increasingly menacing thriller tells the story of an US-American couple traveling from China to Moscow on the famous train, making the wrong kind of friends. While the picture this film paints of Russia and the Trans-Siberian express may not exactly be the most flatter... read more
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January 1, 2012A good revival of the old thriller aboard a train film. It starts fairly slow but the second half soon intensifies with a mix of suspense, action and tone. It will grip you and draw you in, wondering what twist will come next. A solid cast give good performances and the setting a... read more
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April 16, 2011Classic thriller, nice scenes, good actors though Emily wasn't a convincing American, why couldn't she have been given an English role?
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February 25, 2011A slow moving Thriller, with perhaps a fairly believable storyline, in that it's not over the top, like a lot of Action films or too horific in a backpacking/travelling Horror type way.
Emily Mortimer played a good role as did Ben Kingsley as usual.
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November 4, 2010Wow. Legit. I think I held my breath for the entire movie. One of the best movies I have ever seen.
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September 6, 2010If you don't have time to feel like you've been watching a movie for hours and hours, this isn't for you. It took a really long time to build up. But it's pretty crazy in the Hitchcock way, it has you wondering what will happen through the whole thing. You think you know, but it ... read more
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August 13, 2010Cast: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Eduardo Noriega, Kate Mara, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Brad Anderson
Summary: An American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) seeking to smooth out their rough marriage buys a ticket on the legendary Trans-Siber... read more -
June 27, 2010Quite eerie and thrilling, but yes, I did scream at Jessie about ten times, "The truth will set you freeeee!!!!" Also, I don't think Emily Mortimer does a convincing American accent. Her e's and r's are a bit telling. On an unrelated note: I don't know too much about her rang... read more
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June 8, 2010The movie keeps changing gears from interesting to tedious as it keeps shifting from over-dramatic to dramatic to realistic to idiotic. It'd have been much better had they concentrated on one (or 2 at the most; some movies can afford flexibilities given their plot, this wasn't on... read more
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April 5, 2010A very effective Hitchcockian thriller that starts off as a modest drama, taking a good time to develop its characters carefully, then switches unexpectedly to exhilarating tension as the characters find themselves more and more trapped in an unbearable situation.
Critic Reviews
November 17, 2008
Mike Mayo, Washington Post
November 17, 2008
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
A thriller aboard the Trans-Siberian line, stretching roughly 5,000 miles from Beijing to Moscow, should be a cinch, right? Not so fast, Casey Jones. Full Review
November 17, 2008
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Unfortunately, there's never a moment where you can't see Anderson and his co-writer, Will Conroy, yanking on the strings. Full Review
November 17, 2008
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Director Brad Anderson throws in a red herring or two as he comments on Eurotrash and the greed-fueled lawlessness of the former Soviet Union, but he ultimately makes an even stronger statement about ... Full Review
October 18, 2008
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
As Alfred Hitchcock demonstrated three times, trains make a nifty setting for a thriller. Full Review
August 28, 2008
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Writer/director Brad Anderson gives us an artful, shifty-eyed take on human strengths and weakness; his film delivers the pleasure of a conventional tale well told, with clever twists and complex char... Full Review
August 28, 2008
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Transsiberian is a paranoid, chilling train trek that borrows freely from the best Hitchcock pictures to give us that rare adult summer thriller -- 'adult' as in not based on a comic book or video game. Full Review
August 21, 2008
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
A morally complex if plot-wobbly thriller set on the Trans-Siberian Express as it rockets (well, creaks and groans) through snowy forests and forgotten towns. Full Review
August 15, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Transsiberian starts in neutral, taking the time to introduce its characters, and then goes from second into high like greased lightning. I was a little surprised to notice how thoroughly it wound me ... Full Review
August 8, 2008
Jan Stuart, Los Angeles Times
A queasy-making train thriller directed with vibrant visual panache by Brad Anderson. Full Review
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