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Critics Consensus: Snowpiercer offers an audaciously ambitious action spectacular for filmgoers numb to effects-driven blockbusters.
Critic Consensus: Snowpiercer offers an audaciously ambitious action spectacular for filmgoers numb to effects-driven blockbusters.
All Critics (237) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (224) | Rotten (13) | DVD (2)
That rare experience you don't get to have much in the summer anymore, a loud, clanging, original action flick that's grabbing you by the lapels and yelling in your ears.
It's a wicked, violent parable, and one of the only movies of the summer worth talking about after the credits roll.
"Snowpiercer" warms the heart, but doesn't penetrate it.
Fueled by implausibility, and for a good portion of the ride much better for it, Bong-Joon Ho's Snowpiercer posits a nonstop, Earth-encircling train containing the microcosmic survivors of a society killed off by a global warming-induced deep freeze.
Once Mr. Bong sets his monorail in motion the movie assumes an irresistible momentum, accelerated by nonstop mayhem, gallows humor and an immersive visual style that possesses a heady sense of the steam-punk Apocalypse.
This is powerful stuff, and all the more so for its straightforwardness.
By the time the end is upon you, and the twists are revealing themselves like falling dominos, it is hard to catch a breath.
Convolution is preferable in an age where repetition and over-expository presentation is king.
It's simply one of the best science fiction films in recent memory, and (thankfully) one that is completely and totally human...and often disturbingly prescient.
The echoes of Brazil can clearly be heard in this picture along with plenty of other obvious influences, but it has enough it can call its own to be certainly worth a look.
Snowpiercer is exactly what action fans have been clamoring for, so seek Evans & Company out and prepare yourself for a unique cinematic experience tremendously needed in this summer already full of retreads.
The right ticket to spend on is the one that will get you onto a train, this train. All aboard!
An enormously thought-provoking allegory that suggests a terrifying price necessary to keep the capitalist system machine functioning at full speed in a post-apocalyptic society confined in a moving train - and it is always a pleasure to see a thrilling story that makes us think.
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A very unique action Sci-Fi-film that is unlike anything you've seen before. The unpredictable plot and fascinating location already make sure of that but the outstanding look adds another layer of oddness. The sudden bursts of violence are almost physically hurting for the spectator, yet you can't look away from this fascinating and challenging film.
Ugh! Despair, Depression and Hopelessness all served up in 80% darkness. What kind of entertainment is that? None would be the answer. A very few beautiful visual is not enough to compensate for the endless gloom.
It started off interestingly but then sort of changed tone midway. It wasn't bad but I just didn't like the direction it took.
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