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Created Apr 25, 2009 04:45PM PST • Edited Apr 25, 2009 04:45PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Good 3.0

   An effective thiller set on a Transsiberian train that pits an unwitting couple against the seamy world of 90’s Russia’s crime scene. Plenty of action and drama set in Siberian Russia holds your interest, but I enjoyed the build-up more than the concluding scenes. All in all very enjoyable.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

   Woody Harrelson is great as an all-American traveling neophyte and Emily Mortimer delivers majorly well acted drama in scene after scene. Eduardo Noriega was impressive as the drug runner and Ben Kingsley could have done his role as Russian drug-copy with his eyes closed.

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    Good 3.0

    Loved the setting – both the train, and the Siberian landscape and grody little farm towns. Other than dragging on a bit from time to time and an over-done ending I thought the film was well done.

11. Direction Good 3.0

12. Play Good 3.0

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Good 3.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Sordid 2.6

17. Sex Erotic 2.6

18. Violence Brutal 2.6

    Like Wick mentions, watch out for a very brutal torture scene.

19. Rudeness Profane 2.6

21. Reality

    Glib 1.8

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.8

23. Biological Glib 1.8

24. Physical Glib 1.8