Snowpiercer

2013 Directed by Bong Joon-ho

AD 2031, the passengers in the train are the only survivors on Earth.

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

Chris Evans Song Kang-ho Ed Harris John Hurt Tilda Swinton Jamie Bell Octavia Spencer Ewen Bremner Go Ah-sung Alison Pill Luke Pasqualino Vlad Ivanov Adnan Hasković Emma Levie Steve Park Clark Middleton Marcanthonee Reis Paul Lazar Tómas Lemarquis Kenny Doughty Robert Russell Magda Weigertová Jim High Peter Hallin Haruna Honcoopova Ana Braun Griffin Seymour Tyler Williams Luna Sophia Bar-Cohen Show All…

Alternative Titles

قطار یخ شکن, Snowpiercer - Túlélők viadala, Hólyukasztó, Крізь сніг, Le Transperceneige, Seolgug Yeolcha, 설국열차, Expresso do Amanhã, El expreso del miedo, Rompenieves, SNOWPIERCER Le Transpercerceneige, SNOWPIERCER, Le Transpercerceneige

action drama science fiction

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Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 4

The best Captain America movie of the year.
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★ 10

I wish Tilda Swinton did more comedy. Doesn’t even have to be on a train if she wants
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 91

Civilization has gone to shit. It's too cold to survive due to extremely bad weather. Humanity has been reduced to a train. The train has a class system of its own that is heavily divided between the rich and the poor. The rich prey on the poor in many ways. When enough is enough Captain America leads a ragtag group of rebels to the front of the train in Joon-ho Bong's English language debut. Al Gore was right? Chris Evans's beanie. Handy hands. Pound down. Spud? The Help. Billy Elliot's ears. Wearing yellow makes you look even fatter. Snow torture. Tilda's teeth. Hammer time. John Hurt is the shit. Extreme Russian Roulette. Parkour? The Weird without The Good and The…
Review by andrea🌹 ★★★½ 2

i was born in the wrong generation 😣😩 i wish i lived in 2031, when humans were mostly extinct and the proletariat revolted against the aristocracy 😞✊✊
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★½ 10

More like ....Polar Express! :P
Sorry, feeling funny tonight! Can’t help it!
It took a minute for this to get going but once it got going it was a wild ride! Not to say the first half was bad, I just liked what the second was doing more. Yuuuuuup
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★★★ 38

I remember years ago when this movie was announced and the fact that Tilda Swinton and Song Kang-ho were going to star in the first English-language film by Bong Joon-ho; I was elated because I LOVE all three people.
Yesterday as I was watching it, I was elated because the movie was phenomenal. The excitement and suspense I experienced had me on edge for the entire running time. Before the movie started I felt a little apprehensive about Chris Evans but it was completely unfounded because he held his own alongside some of my favorite actors. It was also an absolute treat to see Ko Ah-sung again, because I haven't seen her in anything since The Host.
I loved Snowpiercer so much that I unfriended someone on Facebook for saying really hateful, dismissive things about the movie (admittedly, the person was already hanging by their last thread in regards to my patience though, so I'm not completely unreasonable, right?).
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 4

i held off on watching this for so long because of the boring cover art & how boring chris evans is but this was actually pretty good
Review by Jay ★★★½ 6

if the capitalists get a train what did the communists get? a boat? id like to see that story
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★ 11

Probably one of the best contemporary films about classism, driven by an overarching metaphor/microcosm for both the present and the future. All of the performances are great, as well as the direction, cinematography, and editing being superb. This is the kind of film that I would classify as being important, the kind of film that young adults should watch and learn from. Better yet, it has an appeal for all audiences, because of the fact that it works quite well as both an allegorical film for art-house audiences, and a brilliant action movie for those in seek of top-notch, clever entertainment. It's not a horror movie, but it is a scary one, for it reeks of the truth living within…
Review by DirkH ★★★½ 34

Snowpiercer is a film that manages to stay on track for most of its bloated running time, only to steam ahead towards an inevitable derailment.
Right, now that I've got all the train related puns out of the way, let's talk about this wonderful mess of a film.
As ridiculous as the premise is, Joon-ho Bong's film is fiercely dedicated to it. It starts of with a grimy, disgusting view of life in the tail end of the train that holds the last of humanity. We quickly meet the archetypes required for a story like this. The reluctant hero, the old wise man, the young dog, they're all there. But the way we are introduced to them is where the…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 12

this is the Bioshock movie. overcomes dreadful 1st act to become something darkly absurd & rather special. still Bong's worst. Tilda Swinton doesn't just steal SNOWPIERCER, she buys it, raises the rent, prices it out of the neighborhood, and gentrifies the area.
of course the cruel joke of SNOWPIERCER is that it would likely be a better film with 15 minutes trimmed or repurposed.
full review tk on Badass Digest.
Review by feedingbrett ★★★★½ 14

Snowpiercer is dense, more so than I had anticipated, its plot initially fuelled by the heated emotions that run through the titular train’s lowest class culture, a desperation for a revolution, to finally end the suffering that has plagued them for 17 years. Its tail to head journey is led by the headstrong Curtis (Chris Evans), radiating leadership and intelligence, appointed by the people as their front in their trials towards the engine, which is manufactured and controlled by a man named Wilford (Ed Harris), a visionary who saw the end of our world in the horizon, constructing a train that is capable of self-sustainment and endurance from the harsh cold climate that exists beyond the train’s walls.
In its…

Recent reviews

Review by micspics ★★★★

Chris Evans can get itttttt
Review by Giancarlo ★★★★½

I love you Tilda Swinton
Review by gfdibble ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

the representation of the class system is phenomenal.
Review by Hekla Petursson ★★★★★

I want sequel plz
Review by mere ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

the cinematography of this film was amazing. i loved the plot, it was an unexpected ending for sure. i mean when chris evans found out that his whole “revolt” was planned for population control my jaw dropped. i wish i knew if the girl at then end survived or not :(
Review by pkn ★★★★★

The perfect microcosm of the hell world we live in. The class room scene gives me chills everytime
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face..... forever." - George Orwell
Review by Campbell Mah ★★★½

Not the Willy Wonka sequel I was expecting but an entertaining one nonetheless.
Review by Ryan Levick ★★★★

A delightfully strange movie that absolutely shouldn’t work but somehow definitely does. My favorite performance was from Tilda Swinton.
Review by B2Lbeats ★★★★

Classical character constellation (most prominent in this regard: the humble leader who "doesn’t want it"), but apart from that refreshingly different. The only thing is that I feel that most of these rather unconventional topics are the result of some novelist‘s imagination and film makers merely make use of this fact. Although the way the original story has been adapted by Bong Joon-ho is more than convincing.
Surprisingly Captain America does have emotions and Tilda Swinton steals the show for sure.
Review by Rosigerante ★★★½

Me gustan mucho las formas en que Joon-ho aborda el tema de la inequidad y la absurda estratificación social. Pero en este caso, justo en el clímax, todo se derrumbo dentro de mí.
Review by Harrison ★★★★½

Really good balance of great story and super nice visuals, good to see
Review by Kevinwise ★★★★★

I made my brother watch this because its fuggin great