Enjoyable train-based thriller with strong performances, gorgeous photography and some enjoyable dashes of Hitchcock scattered liberally throughout.
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07/18/08
Transsiberian (2008)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:65
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Traditional in form yet effective in execution, this taut thriller updates the "danger on a train" scenario with atmospheric sense.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: With TRANSSIBERIAN, Brad Anderson proves once again that he has an exceptional ability to craft a suspenseful thriller. Leaving behind the overtly Hitchockian style that made THE MACHINIST such an... [More]
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Thomas Kretschmann, Eduardo Noriega
Director: Brad Anderson
Reviews for Transsiberian
It's gripping, suspenseful and well-acted by a starry cast but is finally let down by a plot which goes spectacularly off the rails in the final act.
01/29/08
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04/24/09
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04/23/09
as Hitchcockian thrillers go, it's one of the smarter and more absorbing ones made in recent years
12/22/08
All in all, the film is an excellent, if modest, alternative for moviegoers who have been blockbustered into submission this summer.
11/17/08
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.
11/17/08
Unfortunately, there's never a moment where you can't see Anderson and his co-writer, Will Conroy, yanking on the strings.
11/17/08
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 the dark side of female empowerment.
11/17/08
hearkens back to those glorious tales of intrigue and adventure that populated film screens in the 30s and 40s.
11/16/08
Transsiberian is a deeply engrossing film from the get go. It sucked me in with a simple, yet often overlooked, idea - interesting characters.
11/04/08
Transsiberian makes suspenseful and sometimes violent gestures, but it’s all decoration.
10/18/08
It effectively keeps us in the dark as to where the story is eventually heading, allowing the film to deliver enough suspense to produce some serious hang-wringing.
10/18/08
Transsiberian is more than a rote thriller; it’s also a sharp character study... actually, several studies in which the information about each character is slowly revealed and every scrap of knowledge further informs our understanding of the plot.
10/18/08
As Alfred Hitchcock demonstrated three times, trains make a nifty setting for a thriller.
10/18/08
Anderson uses snowy locations to impose a chilly menace on the characters, and the script ratchets the tension at a sneakily measured pace.
09/26/08
...a tight and terse thriller.
09/24/08
Transsiberian has more twists and turns in it than the real-life, extensive train route that gives this independently produced suspense-thriller its name.
09/18/08
The limitations of its human characters aside, the movie has a terrific feel for the chilly, remote, attentively portrayed character of its environment.
09/18/08
This is a slow, deliberate and carefully thought out piece for adults who like to savour rather than devour their thrills
09/11/08
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