Review of Transsiberian

Come on, Transsiberian could have been an nice Thriller. Its pretty stretched at times but the acting is great, the setting is interesting and the plot about a unsuspecting couple meeting the wrong people on a Transiberan travel from China to Russia starts interesting. But honestly this movie has so many unbelievable elements which are viable to the plot that it soon gets rather annoying. Most of all main actress Emily Mortimers character Jessie is just ridiculous. After her husband misses the train and is left behind in a hotel (at first we think he got beat up but that red herring is soon dropped) which is idiotic in itself she waits in a hotel with Latin lover Carlos (whom the met on the train with his girlfriend Abby) who obviously has a crush on her and even goes on a trip to an abandoned church in the middle of some forest. Sure, her husband is in the middle of nowhere, so why not get everybody lost. After Carlos is a little too eager to get in her pants she doesn't hit him once in self defense, no she beats him to death with multiple hits to the head. But like this isn't stupid enough she meets her husband back on the train who made friends with a Russian detective played by Ben Kingsley. She finds out Carlos placed drugs in her luggage, they give it to the cop but she doesn't tell her story even when the Russian mafia threatens to kill her husband, Abby lies cut up and bruised on a table and everyone is looking for Carlos who also stole money from the mobsters. Like some gangsters looking for money that would care if she killed Carlos. And this behavior carries the movie to a to a ridiculous train crash and then a medium end. To me Transsiberian was a rather bad surprise.