Transsiberian Reviews

All the actors get their tickets punched, and the screenplay doesn't insult anyone's intelligence.

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Mystery-train thriller chills, then goes off the rails.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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!

Full Review | Original Score: A

The story itself takes a few bloodcurdling turns off the tracks, with well-played action sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Although it doesn't go as far as Strangers on a Train, TransSiberian is worth the ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

as Hitchcockian thrillers go, it's one of the smarter and more absorbing ones made in recent years

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

All in all, the film is an excellent, if modest, alternative for moviegoers who have been blockbustered into submission this summer.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Unfortunately, there's never a moment where you can't see Anderson and his co-writer, Will Conroy, yanking on the strings.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

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hearkens back to those glorious tales of intrigue and adventure that populated film screens in the 30s and 40s.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Transsiberian is a deeply engrossing film from the get go. It sucked me in with a simple, yet often overlooked, idea - interesting characters.

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Transsiberian makes suspenseful and sometimes violent gestures, but it's all decoration.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Smart, unnerving, and sharp as an icicle to the eye, Transsiberian is the chilliest of midsummer thrillers.

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As Alfred Hitchcock demonstrated three times, trains make a nifty setting for a thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Can you say, "No good deed goes unpunished?"

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Anderson uses snowy locations to impose a chilly menace on the characters, and the script ratchets the tension at a sneakily measured pace.

| Original Score: 3/4

...a tight and terse thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5