Jul 02 2008
Murder on the Transsiberian Express. Transsiberian, directed by Brad Anderson, 111 minutes
A film about an American couple Roy and Jessie (Woody Harrrelson and Emily Mortimer) on their way back to the U.S. from China, via the Transsiberian railway. They meet a couple on the train who have been traveling all over. The girl, Abby (Kate Mara), is a young woman from America. Her boyfriend Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) is from Spain. During the course of the trip, Roy ends up missing and then returns, Jessie and Carlos take a side-trip with life altering consequences, and a run-in with the Russian police creates more problems.
I wasn’t a big fan of this movie. The scenery from the train was nice, with some spectacular aerials of the train moving through snow covered landscapes, but on a whole, I probably could’ve told you what would happen, and how the movie would end. This was a classic Hollywood narrative film, with a slight twist, but the predictable formulaic conclusion.
One tree and a bush out of 5
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