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All in all, the film is an excellent, if modest, alternative for moviegoers who have been blockbustered into submission this summer.
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.
Unfortunately, there's never a moment where you can't see Anderson and his co-writer, Will Conroy, yanking on the strings.
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.
As Alfred Hitchcock demonstrated three times, trains make a nifty setting for a thriller.
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 characters.
All the actors get their tickets punched, and the screenplay doesn't insult anyone's intelligence.
Mystery-train thriller chills, then goes off the rails.
Hitchcock would be proud of this trainbound suspense thriller with Woody Harrelson playing against type. A first-rate story, great action and great direction. Take the trip!
The story itself takes a few bloodcurdling turns off the tracks, with well-played action sequences.
Although it doesn't go as far as Strangers on a Train, TransSiberian is worth the ride.
as Hitchcockian thrillers go, it's one of the smarter and more absorbing ones made in recent years
hearkens back to those glorious tales of intrigue and adventure that populated film screens in the 30s and 40s.
Transsiberian is a deeply engrossing film from the get go. It sucked me in with a simple, yet often overlooked, idea - interesting characters.
Kind of like a roller coaster ride%u2026on a Transsiberian cross-country train%u2026without any of the amenities.
Transsiberian makes suspenseful and sometimes violent gestures, but it's all decoration.
Smart, unnerving, and sharp as an icicle to the eye, Transsiberian is the chilliest of midsummer thrillers.
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.
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