Having heard nothing about this movie beforehand....I was completely blown away. intense, riviting, gripping....fantastic.
Rated a 92% on rottentomatoes, I picked up the last copy (of 5 empty rows) at my local Blockbuster and tossed it into the DVD player.
The story revolves around a married couple that is traveling along the Trans-Siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. They had been doing missionary work in China, and wanted to check out Moscow on their way home.
They share a train car with another couple. As the two couples become friends, the Americans (woody and jessica) suspect that their friends are drug mules along the famous route.
They get wrapped into a sinister web, and somehow become part of a Russian conspiracy. I wish I could say more, but I don't want to give much more of the plot away.
While all of the actors (Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Eduardo Noriega, and Kate Mara) do a fantastic job with their particular roles......Ben Kingsley (yes, Gandhi himself) steals the show. He's listed on the back of the DVD as an ex-KGB detective, and the description is apt. You never know who he's working with...is he a detective with the narcotics division of the Moscow police, or is he part of the Russian mob???
Dark, bleak, but yet stunning......this is a great movie to watch in the dead of winter.......check it out
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