TransSiberian (2008)
Directed by Brad Anderson
A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
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Anderson's greatest talent as a filmmaker is his facility for misdirection; in The Machinist, for example, he dexterously deflects the truth of his main character's circumstances until long after audiences stopped questioning them.
As in Session 9 and The Machinist, both brilliant evocations of psychic hauntings, the past here sneaks up on Jessie.
Written and directed by Brad Anderson, an independent filmmaker best known for casting a terrifyingly emaciated Christian Bale in the grim psychological thriller The Machinist, the movie has a distinctly personal bleakness about it.
Anderson ( Session 9 , The Machinist ) starts things with a bang as a Russian narcotics detective Ilya Grinko (Ben Kingsley) checks a crime scene after a drug deal gone bad; a frozen corpse sits bolt upright at a table.
Over the past decade, Director Brad Anderson has established himself as a visionary, highly original filmmaker -- from what was arguably his most lighthearted work, Next Stop Wonderland , in 1998 to the dark, terrifying world of Session 9 in 2001 and on to 2004's The Machinist , for which Christian Bale famously dropped to 120 pounds just before donning the cape and cowl for Batman Begins .
Cowriter (with Will Conroy)/director Brad Anderson ("Session 9," "The Machinist") continues with themes of guilt and secrets in his latest, albeit in the form of a Hitchcockian train thriller.
Director Brad Anderson (“ The Machinist ,” “ Transsiberian ”) does a terrific job of establishing Jordan’s work culture (she has embarked on a romance with a colleague, played by the handsome Morris Chestnut) and the warlike combination of bureaucratic ennui and white-knuckled anxiety that defines the psychic space that most 911 operators occupy.
But genre specialist Brad Anderson ( Session 9 , The Machinist , Transsiberian ) gives it a taut, low-budget energy that keeps it pulsing throughout its entire running time.
Brad Anderson ("Session 9," "The Machinist," "Transsiberian") is a capable genre craftsman with a good eye for shadowy atmosphere.
Director Brad Anderson (who has a few sturdy thrillers to his credit: "Transsiberian," ''The Machinist"), working from the simple, high-concept screenplay by Richard D'Ovidio, ably cuts between Berry's increasingly emotionally-attached Jordan Turner and Breslin's panicking Casey Welson, contrasting the fraught strategizing of Turner with the frantic police pursuit of the kidnapper (Michael Eklund).
Eklund goes way overboard as the wacked-out villain in a scenery-chewing turn indicative of the ham-fisted direction of Brad Anderson, who in the past showed real talent and subtlety in “The Machinist” and “Transsiberian.”
Brad Anderson (“Transsiberian”, “The Machinist”) turns this novel procedural, a serial killer hunt set inside LA’s 911 Call Center (“The Hive”), into a real edge-of-your-seat thriller.
Mostly involved in quality cable skeins of late, helmer Brad Anderson has previously adapted to a range of feature genres, doing particularly well with Hitchcockian intrigue (“Transsiberian”) and ambiguous, atmosphere-heavy thrillers (“Session 9,” “The Machinist”).
Director Brad Anderson (“Transsiberian”) mucks around with therapeutic barbarism and its moral implications, making this “Asylum” a heady place to visit.
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether,” is brought to the big screen with an excellent cast by director Brad Anderson (“Transsiberian”) and writer Joseph Gangemi.
Director Brad Anderson ("The Machinist," "Transsiberian" ) heaps a lot onto the narrative table set by the screenwriter, Joseph Gangemi.
Brad Anderson is one of our most underrated filmmakers, bringing his precise directorial eye to works like “Session 9” and “ Transsiberian ,” while also taking time to elevate shows such as “Fringe,” “The Wire” and “Boardwalk Empire.”
The guy who did Session 9, The Machinist, Transsiberian, and Vanishing on 7th Street?
And Woody Harrelson (" Zombieland ," " Transsiberian ") is, as Platt puts it, one of "the nutbags with the cardboard signs (who) had it right all the time."