Most horror movies make me laugh. This did not. Of course, it is not really a horror movie. There are no hockey masks and no attractive women who happen to take showers just as the evil villian /creature /zombie drops by. Instead, the chills come from a very realistic portrayal of what happens when life goes off the rails (as it were) for a middle class American couple taking an exotic journal on the Transsiberian railway. Ben Kingsley amazes, this time as a corrupt Russian narcotics agent. Emily Mortimer shows a range I did not know she had as the wife who cannot quite let go over her wild past and completely embrace the stable path she has chosen for herself. Plus some amazing scenery from the most brutal and god-forsaken parts of the Russian far east.
Recommended.
Whew.
8 years ago
