
Siberia
2018 · 104m
Synopsis
When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia in search of him, but instead begins a love affair.
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Cast
Keanu Reeves
Lucas Hill
Boris Gulyarin
Pyotr
Ashley St. George
Christa
Elliot Lazar
Sergei - Bellboy
Veronica Ferres
Raisa
Pasha D. Lychnikoff
Boris Volkov
Vladimir Shklyar
Boris Bodyguard #1
Mikhail Bogdanov
Mercedes Driver
Rafael Petardi
Pavel
Darren Ross
Range Rover Driver
Vitaliy Demens
Leo
James Gracie
Vincent
Ana Ularu
Katya
Dmitry Chepovetsky
Ivan
Yurij Kis
Vasily
Aleks Paunovic
Yefrem
Vlad Stokanic
Andrei
Molly Ringwald
Gabby
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This ranks up there with one of the worst movies ever. The storyline is so vague you never have a clue what is going on. The movie is supposedly about a diamond dealer, but there is no back story. He then gets involved with a Russian woman, but even that relationship is burdened by the lack of a story line. In the end he makes a horrible diamond deal and tries to fight off the Russian mob with a bolt action hunting rifle? Just makes no sense. How any group of people watched this and thought it was good enough to bring to market I will never know.
Siberia is a benign romantic action thriller with routine action and not much romance, which is pretty much what you can usually expect from anything with Keanu Reeves, a cast of Russians, and a walk-on by Molly Ringwald. Even in a summer of forgettable losers, this one disappears without a trace. No alleged action thriller about international intrigue that stars Keanu Reeves is likely to land on anybody's A list, but Siberia doesn't even try. This time the poker-faced stoic plays an adventurer named Lucas Hill who travels to St. Petersburg (Russia, you know) to sell a cache of blue diamonds from South Africa worth 50 million dollars to the Russian mob. When he gets there, the man who is delivering the gems has disappeared, so he moves on to the snowy wastes of a mining town in Siberia to find him. Instead of action, he hooks up with a waitress in an all-night diner, gets beaten up by local toughs, and rescued by the girl. They have sex with their clothes on, he wakes up the next morning and makes French toast, and just sort of hangs around. The audience hangs around too, waiting for something to happen. Threatened with mutilation and death by both the mob and the girl's violent brothers, his brows furrow. So much for acting. Instead, the girl's brothers take him on a bear hunt. Everything is tenuous, including a performance by Keanu Reeves that borders on catatonia. Just because he stopped shaving doesn't mean he can suddenly act. After he finally removes his Calvins, Siberia has more sex scenes than any previous Keanu Reeves movie, but the girl (Romanian actress Ana Ularu) is the only one who shows any flesh. Molly Ringwald plays his wife back home in the U.S., shown in only two brief scenes via Skype and long distance cell phone. Despite his limitations, Keanu's love scenes with Ms. Ularu are the rare stretches when the film threatens to come alive. Siberia looks properly deadly (no vacation destination or travel brochures here) but the film was shot in Canada. The romance grows cold while the plot grows incoherent, but nothing works out satisfactorily, including the finale, which looks like it was pasted on in post-editing with a Post-It. Formless and meandering, Siberia is a film without much purpose or promise. The direction, by Matthew Ross, looks phoned in from a toll booth in the Ukraine. The screenplay, by Scott B. Smith, who wrote the vastly superior A Simple Plan, is incomprehensible and abbreviated. One saving grace: a lively performance by a Russian gangster named Boris (aren't they all?), played with grinning relish by Pasha D. Lychnikoff, who has put in some memorable time as assorted rapists, smugglers and white slave traders on TV shows like Law and Order SVU. Needless to say, things end badly for all concerned in Siberia.
I was really looking forward to watching this movie, but I kept waiting for it to get going. There wasn't much of a story, it was very basic, and virtually no action which is something i expected. I know actors sometimes appear in movies for friends, and I just wonder if this was the case for this one. This is my first review. I had to get off my backside and make a review because I usually read and get really annoyed when all the 10/10 appear on a movie that clearly isn't. I will be reviewing more.
I am a keanu fan, but this movie was terrible. Very dull pace with dry acting and moments of possible excitement that end in disappointment. I kept thinking there would be a twist or some big change that would wrap the boring plot together, but it never comes and then you realize that you just wasted an additional 45 minutes for nothing. It also feels low budget in that the supposed Siberia looks more like winter in Kansas.
Keanu Reeves is one of my fav actors, he's very talented and a very simple person, not likeall the glam-stars at Hollywood. But regarding this picture, a total waste of time, money, cast - everything. 1star and this for the actors and the crew that endured the cold weather out there. Otherwise, crappy movie! Avoid it!