Errores

At the end of the movie, when the train stops in the middle of the forest, the locomotive pulls three cars. But later, when the train moves off again, there are four cars behind the locomotive.

At one point in the movie Jessie is moving along the corridor of the train. A man with a freshly lit cigarette hanging from his lips is standing in the aisle as she approaches, as she passes him the camera pans back to the same guy who now has an almost finished cigarette in his mouth.

Russian cigarettes burn even faster than American ones.

When Carlos places the camera around Jessie's neck in the church scene, it can be seen that the green neckstrap has prominent bold CANON logos on it. A split second later, she is wearing a brownish neckstrap with no logos or writing on it.

Roy and Jessie set out from Beijing and immediately deal with Russian staff on the train. In fact, the train is manned by Chinese staff with a Chinese restaurant carriage whilst the train is still in China.

When Jessie first tries to get rid of the matreshkas (set of nesting dolls) made of drugs, she goes to the carriage platform and opens the door by rotating the red lever covered by frost. It's actually an emergency hand brake.

Grinko wears his wedding ring on left hand. While Russians (as well as many other nations of the former Soviet Union) actually wear wedding rings on right hand, they will wear wedding rings on their left hands when they are divorced or widowed.

The large map that Jesse studies in the movie says "All Abroad" in very large letters, instead of "All Aboard". This is a reference to English language signs in China that sometimes have amusing mistakes in them.

The shots Jessie takes near the old church require a large telephoto lens (especially the one of the soaring eagle). Her camera, however, is mounted with a very short focal length lens than is incapable of taking said pictures.

More than capable. It is not a short focal length lens. Rather, it is a zoom lens, as can be seen by the times when it zooms. Besides, the bird was just at treetop level. It was closer than the church she was shooting.

In one of the first scenes you see the inspector with everything frozen in the building. He finds a dead body with a knife in its head. Everything is frozen - except for the blood on the knife.

The Trans-Siberian railway west of Irkutsk is portrayed as non-electrified single-track, when in fact it is double-track and fully electrified.

When Detective Grinko is scrolling through photos on the camera, the images are seen going BACK through time (this is logical - the photo view mode starts with the most recent photo and you scroll backwards to go back). We see the photos of the paintings in the church, then the eagle etc. However, he is pressing the RIGHT button - this would cause the photos to scroll forwards in time (to the right). He should be pressing the LEFT button in order for the camera to scroll backwards as it is shown.

About five to six minutes into the movie, immediately after the scene where Jesse is looking at the large route map, the is a brief shot of train cars moving past the camera to the left. The serial numbers on the cars are flipped meaning that this portion of the film must have been flipped during printing.

In the first scene where the Grinko (Ben Kingsley) examines the dead man sitting in a chair, you can see the man breathing.

They show a wolf at the church scene. Carlos would have been eaten by wolves after he was left dead in the woods.

Something that "would have" happened but didn't isn't a plot hole. Maybe it wasn't a wolf. Maybe it was somebody's dog.

It shows a temperature of -26, supposedly in Celsius, yet she wears only jeans pants and a light jacket.

So what? That's only -15° F. It's a dry cold, hardly noticeable.

While walking to the old church, even though they are in Siberia in the winter, their breath is not seen when they exhale.

Breath condensation is dependent on relative humidity. Humidity high means clouds of vapor since the air is close to saturation, can't hold more moisture, so it condenses forming the cloud. Humidity low (dry air) means any moisture from the breath just gets absorbed without condensing. No cloud.

When Roy and Jessie take the train in China, it is shown to be moving along green trees in sunny summer days. In several minutes the train is already shown in a real winter landscape.

The movie is just over 1 and 1/2 hours long. Not enough time to show every step of the way across China and Russia.

The English-language subtitles refer to one of the station stops as "Ulyanovsk." Ulyanovsk is a major city southeast of Moscow, not at all on the route of the Trans-Siberian railway. The correct name is "Ilanovskaya," seen on the hotel sign and on the travel brochure Carlos hands to Jessie. The error appears only in the subtitles, as the actors pronounce the name correctly.

Translation subtitles are done by volunteer translators, not the film makers.