On their way home from China, married Christian missionaries Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) take a train from Beijing to Moscow. The train soon becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when they encounter a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
5 May 1949, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, France
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
27 February 1983, Bedford, New York, USA
2 November 1965, Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]
23 July 1961, Midland, Texas, USA
1 August 1973, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
4 December 1972, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
10 March 1947, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
18 June 1949, Long Island, New York, USA
1 December 1971, London, England, UK
8 September 1962, Dessau, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany]
June 27, 2014
A terrific combination of action, mystery and adventure
November 17, 2008
Unfortunately, there's never a moment where you can't see Anderson and his co-writer, Will Conroy, yanking on the strings.
November 17, 2008
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.
November 17, 2008
All in all, the film is an excellent, if modest, alternative for moviegoers who have been blockbustered into submission this summer.
October 18, 2008
As Alfred Hitchcock demonstrated three times, trains make a nifty setting for a thriller.
December 10, 2009
The story itself takes a few bloodcurdling turns off the tracks, with well-played action sequences.
April 23, 2009
Although it doesn't go as far as Strangers on a Train, TransSiberian is worth the ride.
December 31, 2010
Mystery-train thriller chills, then goes off the rails.
February 15, 2011
All the actors get their tickets punched, and the screenplay doesn't insult anyone's intelligence.
November 17, 2008
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.
August 29, 2008
Transsiberian is a model of audience manipulation, a slow-fuse thriller that builds its suspense gradually, in increments, until it has becomes close to unbearable. Then it pushes things just a little further, until you're squirming in your seat.
