Product ReviewsTranssiberian (Blu-ray Disc, 2008)

A Visually Stunning Film With an Unpredictable Outcome

The idea for this film set in freezing Siberia on a train is absolutely breath-taking, especially along remote areas between China and Moscow through Siberia. Voilà is a real Transsiberian railway built by Nicholas before the revolution.

The film really gets underway when two couples have to share accommodations in a passenger compartment on a train. Although they seem to be very different and are a bit shy to begin with, Roy (Woody Harrelson), his wife Jessie (Emily Mortimer), Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara) are thrown together in this tight, old fashioned thriller. This is the new Russia of big money and mafia corruption, but the ingredients are tried and true. Strangers on train: there's something Hitchcockian about the way innocent people get roped into incriminating situations and then appear perhaps not to be so innocent after all.

The long train ride and the overheated intensity of the cars (you can't seem to pry the windows open) make it very claustrophobic and uncomfortable. The character all seem way to naive and trusting at times, yet very drawn in to one another in a sexual, yet suspicious way. Roy seems to be very gullible at times, maybe a bit pious, yet upbeat. Roy seems very interested in living life and has nothing to hide, yet you feel that his wife Jessie may have had a very wild past with many problems including trouble with the law. She's a smoker, and he's a christian trying to come to grips with his wife's difficult outlook on things and her inability to be sexy and romantic.

Roy and Jessie seem to be returning from some sort of Christian outreach project in China. Roy's like a little boy when it comes to trains. The Express is like a huge toy all for him. He's very devoted to Jessie, but the sex hasn't been going too well.

The new day starts when into the compartment comes a younger couple. Carlos & Abby say they were teaching in Japan. However, Carlos, a handsome devil, who has his eye on Jessie, seems to know a little too much about how to get past customs with a dodgy passport. He shows off theirs proudly to Jessie, who's had a bit of trouble with the Russians. Her passport and Roy's are too pristine, he says. It makes the officials suspicious. His and Abby's are packed with stamps. They look "real." He's got some of those Russian dolls, the little lacquered things like shoots only with babushka heads, one inside the other. He says his are special, and he's going to sell them for a lot of money. He is, but that isn't why.

The train makes long stops, and Roy is so fascinated with the cars, he gets involved in a conversation with Carlos, and then the train takes off without him. Abby and Jessie have had a heart-to-heart and Jessie has confessed she had a lot of drug and alcohol problems. Roy says they "met by accident" because they met in an accident, when she was driving drunk and he stayed with her in the hospital. That's when he told her the donut and the hole story.

Carlos is dangerous, handsome, and predatory. Jessie has that wild side gesturing wildly to be let out again. And he could be the one to tease it out.
Depends on how good you are at predicting the outcome of this story. If I tell you the outcome you would watch the film. So Just watch it and I will guarantee you the story takes many twists and turns.

I'll give this film a 4/5 for its wonderful scenery and intense moments of terror and betrayal.

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Transsiberean is highly entertaining, suspensul movie. One to watch!

A great movie with a stellar cast of actors. Quite a few twists and turns throughout. 2 thumbs up! :)

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GREAT MOVIE

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transsiberian

great mystery, drama, thriller!
keeps your attention.
good classic story line. you feel like your part of the story, and when
it's over, it sticks with you!