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| Format | Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Contributor | Woody Harrelson, Brad Anderson, Emily Mortimer |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 51 minutes |
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Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) are the perfect American couple traveling from Beijing to Moscow on the legendary Trans-Siberian Express train. The two strike a bond with another couple, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega) and Abby (Kate Mara), who are not exactly as they appear. Unwittingly, Roy and Jessie are caught in a web of drug trafficking and murderous deceit when all four become targets of ex-KGB detective Grinko's (Ben Kingsley) investigation.
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 Ounces
- Item model number : FLP-12496
- Director : Brad Anderson
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 51 minutes
- Release date : November 4, 2008
- Actors : Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer
- Subtitles: : Spanish
- Studio : Alchemy / Millennium
- ASIN : B001CITQWM
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #87,435 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,811 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
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The rickety train, the dim, cramped, shared compartments and spaces, the things that work and sometimes don't make the train a character all its own, and I absolutely loved the drone shots of the train moving through the Siberian woods and virgin snow. The sense of immensity, determination and isolation those shots convey is nothing short of director's wizardry.
The ratty hotel rooms, the Russian penchant for living with life's inconsistencies, waterworks that don't work, and the desolate beauty of the far north add nuance and authenticity to this film. Like the train, the Siberian winter isn't just a backdrop, it is a character in and of itself as well. I could almost feel the unrelenting and everpresent cold.
This film is very well paced, has a couple of completely unexpected moments and scenes, several things don't go the way I suspected they might, and must have been done in extraordinary conditions and the actors, crew and directors get kudos for that as well.
This movie did something else for me as well: my opinion of Woody went from just another B movie actor to completely surprised by his capability as a professional. He not only fit my mental image of a hardware store scion, but he could have fooled me with the persona. Very convincing.
The film is long, but there is no labyrinthine plot, it is easy to follow, some things I saw coming and others I didn't, the pace is pleasant and doesn't bog but a couple of places, all the characters are good to great, including the train and the Siberian countryside.
I recommend on a cold, snowy night comfortably near the fire with a shot of vodka handy.
What really makes this movie, though, is the acting. That's why it gets four stars. I adore Emily Mortimer even on a cloudy day, and she totally carries this film. Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega, and Woody Harrelson are obviously great too. The cinematography is also gorgeous, you get a real sense of how big and bleak Russia is. I loved the crabby people on the train and the idea of Jessie photographing everything so as to set the film clearly in her point of view. The ending aside, I'd say this movie is definitely worth a watch.
Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer are journeying back from Moscow on the titular express, and become entangled with wild child Kate Mara and edgy Eduardo Noriega, who are running away from a deal-gone-wrong. But just when you think straight-laced Woody is going to fall from grace, the script pulls a trick you didn't see coming...add solid Ben Kingsley as a pursuing Russian cop and you've got a nice 'spiralling out of control' situation brewing. The DVD cut is longer (and better) than the theatrical release.
Incidentally, every Anderson film seems to contain one shocking scene - in this one, wait for the moment when Emily takes a walk through the train!
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There's a brief detour into Hostel territory as the kind of travellers' tales they dismiss early in the film start to come home to roost, but for the most part it works because of the character flaws in the trio of unlikely couples the film finally focuses on - if Harrelson doesn't quite convince, Mortimer is quite superb as she finds herself caught between the light and the dark, a situation Kingsley's jaded narc is only too familiar with in a modern Russia with its reduced life expectancy: "Then we were people living in the darkness," he notes of the days of Soviet rule. "Now we are a people dying in the light." Visually Anderson takes his cue from the metaphor, staging his few but memorable setpieces in cold bright winter light. If this particular train takes a little too long to pick up speed and throws in one deus ex machina too many in its grand finale, it works just well enough as a character study and a thriller to make it worth a look.
Icon's DVD has a nice 2.35:1 widescreen transfer with a handful of deleted and extended scenes and a half-hour making of documentary as extras.
This is a brilliant thriller, beautifully filmed and with suspense maintained throughout. I am very happy to award it top marks and will gladly watch it again on many future occasions. It should be recognised, however, that what the filmmakers have craftily done is to stir together the ingredients of three of Alfred Hitchcock's most cherished classics - 'Blackmail', 'The Lady Vanishes' and 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' - to produce a stand-alone masterpiece which is nevertheless heavily indebted to the work of the old master. (The scene where the helpful policeman very kindly carries the heroine's heavy bag would have delighted him beyond measure!)
Emily Mortimer is fab in this..never really being the sultry kind of actress she comes across as the wife with a darker, wilder side to Woody Harrelson's goody goody character and when put in the company of the charming Italian stranger her persona really starts to show.
Support from Kate Mara is good with her being mysterious but led on and the always dependable Ben Kingsley is brill as always.
A film that makes you feel uncomfortable and yet hooked and makes you think that something like this could easily happen..remember..Never Talk to Strangers!!










