Too much snow in the blood.

A train, which is pain: director Brad Anderson sends in his new movie "Transsiberian" a U.S. couples through the ice-cold Russia. Unfortunately, the adrenaline level climbs into this so unmotivated as subdued thriller rarely on the freezing point.
  A train ride is like a life time lapse: it is progressing (usually at least), each driven meter, reaching every city, every encounter in the next moment is already history, the memories to fade quickly.

Even Jessie (Emily Mortimer), formerly an over-the-strings-Schlägerin today with the Bible-minded groups Roy (Woody Harrelson) liiert, tried their history behind them as a way station on the edge. Stupid for them that the past but then einholt, calculated at about 9000 km long railway line between Beijing and Moscow.
Russians drink with wodkaseligen
A train ride is also like a blind date: You never know whom you meet. Probably just so the train sociotope of directors Alfred Hitchcock ( "The stranger on the train") to Wes Anderson ( "Darjeeling Limited") is fascinating. Because the protagonists - eingepfercht in a rolling box and in a confined space with other people face - their personal ambivalences and problems only for a short time can keep for themselves.
Even in "Transsiberian," the new thriller by Brad Anderson, the train has this feature. Jessie and Roy, in China at an aid organization for needy children ausgeholfen and have now extended their home to the U.S. muster, share their sleeping compartment with the silent Abby (Kate Mara) and her boyfriend Carlos (Eduardo Noriega).
Initially, the mood is euphoric. Roy, so candid, as a good Christian has to be, is happy in a strange place to have friends and to Carlos betrinkt itself and wodkaseligen Russians. Jessie is restrained and studied the conversation of women in: your fellow travelers Abby revealed her wild past full of drugs and alcohol excesses. Carlos probably reminds them of his southern temperament can be difficult to rein in and Jessie constantly making advances in this exciting time.
VIDEOS ON FILM Photo: Universe Video: UniversumTranssiberianTrailer film excerpts and film extracts: "Is this your first time?" Film excerpt: "Today's criminals" film excerpt: "Roy has disappeared" Then it comes, as it must: Roy goes to a lost intermediate stop, Jessie, Abby and Carlos wait for the next stop on him - and Carlos' sexual bids will be clearer.
Finally, he Jessie, the time to proceed with a trip to an old abandoned church totzuschlagen. And precisely at this sacred place Jessie forgets their morality for a moment.
The situation escalates, the snow turn red. Jessie returns without Carlos back to the station and leave the next train to the city. But the escapade with the dubious Carlos, who as drug smugglers turn is equally adamant she gets back on its past as before.
Placeholder for an enemy country
Suddenly, the train sociotope as nothing more exotic maddening. The mood is claustrophobic in order: drug dogs sniff around, policemen fierce growl, grumble kauzige Schaffner.
CINEMA PLANERDPAIhr Cinema: What is when and where - the SPIEGEL ONLINE planner for the whole of Germany ... In this second part of the film - at the Sundance festival and celebrated its premiere in the spring at the Berlinale - succeed in the highly by critics Independent filmmaker Anderson ( "Session 9", "The Machinist"), what you during the first half in which it is the adrenaline level just above the freezing creates missing: build up tension, the protagonists through the narrow corridors compartment to hunt and the uncertainties of their adventure vacation trips feel it.
But the delayed onset voltage is pretending not overlook that in this strange thriller unausgegorenen many chances recklessly whiz have been left. As one would be the scene: Anderson sends his American couple on a trip with the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway, a trip which the director himself to students times has ever undertaken. In "Transsiberian" serve the ideologically and politically charged countries China and Russia but only as a placeholder for a diffuse strange, hostile environment.
TRANSSIBERIAN (Britain / Germany / Spain 2008) Director: Brad Anderson Screenplay: Brad Anderson, Will ConroyDarsteller: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate MaraProduktion: Rental universe: the universe (Walt Disney) Running time: 111 minutes start: 11 December 2008offizielle WebsiteZum others remain the most right-dimensional figures. To the drug investigators Grinko (Ben Kingsley) who does not honor between police and bribe can decide, all Russians staffages. At worst, it is the German export Hollywood caught Thomas Kretschmann, a mafioso plays, all three sentences must speak Russian - and otherwise looks bad.
Not even his main roles was Anderson vibrating life. Apart from the fear and self zerfressenen Jessie remain the four supporting characters themselves for an action-thriller much too flat. Away is especially the use Woody Harrelson ( "Larry Flynt"), the naive throughout the worshiper to play.
Shall leave you "Transsiberian" after a loud schneegrellen pictures and asked him again so quickly forgotten as the film was only a small number of stops on a long train ride.