I really enjoyed this edge-of-your-seat thriller set aboard the Trans Siberian Railway train. Woody Harrelson is great but Ben Kingsley is downright menacing in his creepy "Sexy Beast" fashion as a Russian police officer. Highly recommended
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Exciting, gripping, edge of your seat stuff. Very good actors. Recommended.
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Interesting trip on train .
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DVD in excellent condition, plays fine. The film is exciting and has some surprises in store. Five stars.
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The Trans-Siberian train route, which runs from China to Moscow, is one of the world’s great journeys – a trip of a lifetime. But it's unlikely anyone will be rushing to buy a ticket after seeing Brad Anderson’s noirish thriller, which is set on one of the line’s decaying, Soviet-era locomotives. The earnest, bespectacled Roy, played with great charm by Woody Harrelson, and his fragile, reformed-alcoholic wife Jessie (Emily Mortimer) are returning home to the US from missionary work in China. Their decision to take the scenic route sees them thrown together with another, better travelled, pair. Sexual tension, and anxiety concerning the second couple’s purpose on a line which is notorious for drug smuggling, builds in the cramped confines of their shared compartment. When trainspotter Roy disappears at a stop and is left behind, the others have to get off and wait for him, and things turn sour on an excursion to a deserted church in the snowy Siberian wastes. The appearance of Ben Kingsley, above, as smiling drug squad detective Grinko, signals a rapid unravelling of the plot and the film spirals towards its denouement via a series of increasingly improbable twists. A carefully tended sense of unease pervades proceedings from the moment they open with a starkly filmed murder victim. References to police brutality and glimpses of casual violence combine with a keen feel for the grotesque (gurning, unsubtitled extras and toothless babushkas abound) to suggest that the protagonists are out of their depth in an unfamiliar world. “We’re Americans,” Harrelson despairingly proclaims at one point, and Anderson shows that this is precisely the couple’s problem. The eventual resolution is too neat, but striking cinematography and brilliant performances sustain Transsiberian and leave you wondering why it never made it to UK cinemas. For once, “straight to DVD” is an endorsement, not a warning.Read full review
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