Transsiberian

It's so nice to see a movie about human beings. Not super heroes, not monsters, not cyborgs or machines. People. My species. A young American couple on a train from Beijing to Moscow meet another couple who turn out to be not so nice. The plot is suspenseful and well put together, You get pulled in because they seem so ordinary. So vulnerable.

The acting is very good. Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer are the nice couple and Kate Mara and Eduardo Noriega are the couple up to no good (he's smuggling heroin). And Ben Kingsley. Boy this guy really knows what he's doing in front of a camera. He's a Russian policeman who turns out to be a corrupt Russian policeman and you know that is the worst kind. When he has the American couple in his clutches the movie gets really scarey. In a good way.

This is really just a well made movie that is elevated considerably by the level of the acting. Credit the director Brad Anderson and the writers Mr Anderson and Will Conroy.

It's believable and involving. Unfortunately that's kind of rare these days. So you have to acknowledge it when it comes along