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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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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

Keanu, top form, he must have practiced the Russian dialogue for weeks!

As far as plot goes, blows John Wick 3 away (which really seemed to revolve around the action scenes and body count).

The producers of Siberia did a wonderful job - wonderful juxtapositions of color and texture, for example, actors wearing blue and then in the next scene a literal 'fire orange', followed by an (artistic) clip of white snow melting off a dark roof. Then an action scene. Finesse!

Didn't really like the ending of Siberia though, it kind of reduces the opportunity for a sequel?

Certainly noticed some goofs, but still found it (well over a thousand times) more entertaining than that (critically acclaimed?!!) movie Nomadland - which was like watching wet cardboard dry over a bucket toilet.

Okay, whilst I wouldn't call this a masterpiece, I found this pretty enjoyable and it had a suspenseful moody atmosphere to it. Why it received so many 1s I'm not sure, but starting to think it is a conspiracy and not a genuine reflection of everyone that has seen it's opinion. I have seen some truly dreadful films in my time, but this is not one of them by a long stretch!

The screenplay destroyed any potential this film may have had.

The story is absolutely useless and unnecessary from start to midpoint. The remainder of the scenes where convoluted (especially the ending) and so dragged out - especially the lame sex scenes.

I had to fast forward most of the long scenes as I was losing my interest and patience. What were the writers thinking? A 5th grader could have written this better.

This film suffered an identity crisis; what is soft porn? what is a romance? was it a thriller? was it spy film? There was certainly no action or suspense. There where so many plot issues and more holes than in Swiss cheese.

The cinematography was the main highlight, then the acting, and finally the directing was fairly decent, although the director should have demanded this film be edited down - especially the dragged out useless scenes to perhaps a short film. 104 mins was waaay too long for the pacing that was so ridiculously slow. The score was also annoying.

As a huge fan of KR, this was a big disappointment and he should have passed on this one. A 3/10 from me only for the very few positive traits.