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This film was agonisingly painful to watch. Even the sex scenes were non eventful.

My wife and I watched this at home, it was free from our public library. We like Reeves, he has been in many good movies. In this one he was also a Producer, in the DVD "extra" he even praised the script.

Well we disagree, the script is mediocre and the execution is mediocre. It is never very clear what all is going on and who all the players are and what their motives are. Plus a couple of seemingly incongruent sex scenes are thrown in.

My best guess is Reeves plays a man who deals in criminal diamond trades, has some legitimate blue diamonds and some fakes that can only be identified using a spectrometer. In Russia he has to deal with various guys who in the end seem to want him dead.

So while I can't say it was a complete waste of time we certainly expected something better. The movie is flat, obscure, and dull most of the time.

This film can only be described as a badly executed porn film. The acting is awful. The plot has more holes in it than a strippers fishnet tights and for the first time ever I was rooting for Keanu to get his ass kicked. Please, for the love of god, do not waste your time watching this film.

I honestly cannot think of a movie that is worse than this one. It is boring as hell and the storyline doesn't make any sense. A high school student could produce a better film.

After watching this film I'm trying to understand what it's about? Their was no substance to it at all. The acting was good for what it was. But not much more. The story was weak. I don't enjoy being a critic, but this one ..... not something I'll give another watch. I hate to say it, but it is a forgetful piece of work. I just don't see it ...

I watched this the other day...OMG...what a waste of time and electricity. I can't believe they even made this movie.

I can't recall seeing another film on IMDB reviewed as '1' with such frequency as Siberia. Nearly all the reviewers have only reviewed this film in their IMDB history. Many of the reviews are nearly identical. Looks like a spam farm was hired to trash the film. Why? Russians upset that they are portrayed as the bad guys? The film is no masterpiece, but to give it '1' is ludicrous. Competently shot, acted and directed, the story keeps you wondering how much deeper the protagonist will go and if he will extricate himself. No Keanu masterpiece, but not terrible either.

I had very high expectations from this movie. But movie is very slow. There is no thriller or good action neither drama. Movie ends in weird way. It doesn't make any sense to watch this movie.

How a film this poor gets made is beyond me.

Dreadful attempt at a plot. Absent character development.

Canada as Siberia? Almost funny.

The two stars are for beautiful St Petersburg - about the only thing worth noting in this sorry excuse for a film.

A nondescript run-of-the-mill (action?) thriller with stereotyped characters and a non-existent storyline. As always, Russia is presented as the cold and bleak land of slutty women and cruel gangsters. Everyone is morally corrupt and physically repulsive, even women. Does anyone really believe that the nation that gave us Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Turgenev, Pushkin and Lermontov consists of such degenerates? Hollywood keeps spinning out these propaganda pieces that are so badly made that fail on each and every level: visual, artistic, narrative, etc. It is now a well-known fact that CIA pitches scripts to Hollywood, but why would Keanu Reeves agree to breathe life into a still-born project like this one is beyond me.

Dear Lord, what a piece of junk... I get it, can't be that bad with Reeves right? Guess again.

I'm trying not to give anything away here but I'm quite annoyed at the number of reviewers who are giving this movie a 1 rating. The acting was decent, the story was decent, the directing and photography were decent (even if nothing was really outstanding). Some people said it was too slow but I think the pacing was very consistent and helped set a certain mood. There are hints in the movie as to how it might end - but some people clearly weren't happy that they didn't quite get the unrealistic western action hero ending they would have preferred.

The movie is a decent 6 and, even though I also was hoping for a different ending and felt cheated at first, I then realised the actual ending was the right ending.

So ends my review.

Worst movie I have ever seen in a cinema. Looks like Keanu was owing something to someone. Don't get curious and waste your time.

I can understand why probably most viewers will rate this movie low. This one is not for everyone. It's not to watch with your family or in a bigger group of friends. You will understand this movie and see it's little details and appreciate them when you are at least 30 something years old. This movie is not about crime - it's about love and man-woman relationship. I would say this movie is at some point closer to Bertolucci "Last Tango in Paris". The way the actress looks at Reeves in particular scenes you will immediatly understand what I mean.

Slow boring piece of mess. No action. No chemistry he looks awkward during the sex scenes. No chemistry. The ending was like wtf.