Transsibererian - Movie Review

I enjoyed this film. As Ebert says it's a Hitchockian thriller. Slow to start and pickup speed to a dramatic finish. The beginning, while most would consider tediously slow, actually had a ton of foreshadowing and instilled a sense of impending doom. Harrelson gives an excellent performance as a naive straight arrow who, when the time comes has the pragmatism of a professional killer. Conversely his wife, Emily Mortimer, who is a street smart former bad girl panics and makes one mistake after another. Country Bumpkin Harrelson, so trusting of everyone, turns out to have the nerves of a Navy SEAL. His geeky fascination with coal burning trains adds a plausible dimension to what would otherwise be a implausible action at a crucial moment.