Cert: (R-rated) 18 (cert)
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Screen writer: Joon-ho Bong , Kelly Masterson , Jacques Lob , Benjamin Legrand , Jean-Marc Rochette.
Starring: Chris Evans , Kang-ho Song , Ed Harris , John Hurt , Tilda Swinton , Jamie Bell , Octavia Spencer , Ewen Bremner , Ah-sung Ko , Alison Pill , Luke Pasqualino , Vlad Ivanov , Adnan Haskovic ,Emma Levie , Steve Park , Clark Middleton , Marcanthonee Reis
Running time: 126 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Early in the film, there is a very brief suggestion that a character is a paedophile but that is later confirmed not to be the case as he is using children as slaves to run the train.
A man asks another man that when was the last time he got laid.
No sex or nudity.
Violence & Gore: Several bloody fight sequences that involves weapons such as axes, hammers and various other melee weapons.
A character has his arm put outside of a moving train where temperatures are extremely low - although you do not see his arm being explicitly frozen - after several minutes, his arm is brought back in and shattered by a hammer but it is mostly off screen and you only see the remnants of his arm for a few seconds. It's more so disturbing than gory.
Several shootouts that is more so intense than bloody.
A pregnant woman has a knife thrown into her throat - its intensity is weighed down by the fact that she is an assassin.
An explosion derails the train, causing hundreds of deaths - more so intense than violent or gory
A couple of main characters are shot in the head - one is shot on-screen explicitly and the other is shot off-screen.
Profanity: Frequently usage of various derogatory terms used intensely
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Frequent drug references and usage.
Two main characters are addicted to a drug known as 'Kronal' - where they sniff its contents to hallucinate. It's appearance is similar to clay blocks. They are also used as explosives.
During a nightclub sequence - there are shots of various people that appear to be high from the drug.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: The entire film is rather intense and depressing.
The brutal fight sequences, although not extremely graphic, it is still bloody and unsettling.
Close to the end, a man talks about when they first boarded the train and how they starved. The man explains that most of the people ate the weak. He even refers how babies tasted the best. This whole piece of dialog is very disturbing and emotional.
The ending can be quite emotional and upsetting.
Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off all life on the planet except for a lucky few that boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system evolves.
Likes : The plot is simple : ecologist have pushed governments to unleash a gas in the atmosphere to control global warming, which in turns cause global warming to stop but it worked to well & turn the earth in to a new ice age. The only survivors are all aboard a revolutionary train that goes on and on making loops around the world like a Noah's Ark, but including the the very thing that destroyed the world i the first place politics that come with it : first class, second class, workers, fraudsters, the ticket is your fate - for generations. And the consequences are extreme, to such and extent that you can't conceive.
Prepare to be shocked at times. Imagine the vertical multistoreyed humanity of Lang's Metropolis, the horizontal way. Some of the tail section fraudsters decide to rebel against their condition and progress to the head car of the train regardless of the risks. Every car they go through bears its grotesque and mind-bending surprises. And tells us more about how this society actually works and what it relies on.
The film dose have promise as thing start to happen, it start to get brutal The good: the plot, for the most part. Although your find the idea of a train being humanity last home extremely weird, it makes for a nice backdrop. The tone of the movie reminds me a lot of The Hunger Games. Chris Evans who plays Curtis does pretty good actor role in this. The wagons themselves have amazing character. The Art Director should be praised the most out of the entire film crew. but the film is flawed with so many question that kinds of keep you from love this film. So it a type of film not everyone with like.
Dislikes : The bad: Well, let me sum it up in questions. Questions keeping me from loving this:
1. Why divide the train into classes? This makes no sense. The train ecosystem would function fine with some rules regarding population control.
2. Their great plan is to have a regular uprising to kill off people and keeping the population down? WHAT? See my first point.
3. They used to eat people and babies, but are now disgusted by eating protein bars made by cockroaches? How does that work? And furthermore:
4: WHERE did all those bloody cockroaches come from?
5: If you've invented perpetual motion; why the hell use it in a train? Why not use it to power a generator in a camp, or heat a underground city? The train is death on tracks, with ice regularly blocking the path.
6: Why is everyone on this train ready to kill? Seriously, 90% of EVERYONE is ready to throw down here.
7: People take loosing their limbs SHOCKINGLY well in this movie. Like it's just a flesh wound, really.
8: What the hell happened with that one bad guy who got stabbed through his guts and choked? He just gets up? Why did the korean guy stop his girl from stabbing him? And the korean girl later misses him by 7-8 shots? Furthermore: Tilda Swinton gets a knife through the leg, but walks fine right afterwards.
9: Those weird antics of the characters. The woman in the yellow dress licking her blood off her fingers. Tilda Swinton with her strange comedic performance (although I did like the character, I found it a bit distracting), that incredibly weird Korean couple acting all over the place, things like the masked guy just smiling at Evans when they are sitting down. Sometimes I felt like I was watching Charlie and the chocolate factory.
10: The starved people of the tail takes out an army of axe wielding fighters with night vision? After apparently yelling for help through the entire train, and a kid lighting a torch, and running up to them in no time? Stretching it thin, movie!
11: The soldiers had bullets, but they weren't using them at the ONE PLACE they needed bullets? Are you serious??
12: The shootout between Chris Evans and what I can only assume was Terminator. On opposite sides of the train, probably 1000ft from each other. Sniping with a submachine gun. Through a blizzard. Nice aim there, fellas.
13: Mr. Terminator shooting his comrades all the time. Seriously. What was to be gained from that? He did it several times. Who is this guy??
14: The only way the train can function is to stuff small kids down small holes to keep the engine running? Really? Was the train designed to stuff small kids down there, or did it just appear to be the perfect solution? How convenient.
15: The wagon closest to the engine is the RAVE-CLUB where all the freaks go to party? Incidentally, the elementary school is next to the slaughterhouse.
16: There is no policy on drugs on this finely tuned train? Everyone just goes buck wild with this incredibly potent drug next to the engine room? And furthermore...
17: The drug of choice is basically C4? And it just lies around everywhere - again - next to the engine room?
18: Why not pay attention to what the korean guy is doing to open the doors and then open them themselves instead of having him slow them down?
19: The people with axes putting fish blood on their weapons before fighting? That was random.
20: The other wagons are TOTALLY unaffected by the explosion in the first wagons. Wow. They don't really notice until they derail. What a masterfully crafted train.
21: I know it fits with his story, but did Mr. Evans really need to sacrifice his arm to pull that kid out? He could probably stop the machine with something else than a limb and take better care of that child.
22: The people who jumped off the train still haven't been covered up by snow after 15 years in a never-ending blizzard?
Those were some of the things that will stop from truly loving this movie. the ending just got pointless. There was definitely promise in this film, but I felt this could have become an excellent movie with more thought put into it. It came off extremely unrealistic & the sci-fi part, it's all about fooling the audience into thinking this could happened. That's the "science" part.
Overall : Film had promise but fall apart slightly, the ending didn't really make sense but apart from that the film was ok
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