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

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

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

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 johnmchale731 ★★★★

Letterboxd List Challenge - boxd.it/HYLo
Between this and Train to Busan, it makes for a hell of a game of “Would You Rather…”
Review by Dustin ★★★★

One of the things that makes Bong Joon-Ho an interesting filmmaker, is the way he takes seemingly disparate elements and sort of mashes them together. Snowpiercer is a science fiction movie, first and foremost, sure, but it’s also an action movie, a comic book adaptation, and there are components of drama, horror and comedy as well.
He’s very good at juggling different tones and making them all work. Which is not to say that this film is flawless; there are a number of things you could pick apart here, but its constant creative invention, and it’s propulsive social commentary make it a very entertaining movie, undoubtedly.
I do think he’s perhaps a little more successful, thematically speaking, with Parasite. That picture just feels a little more cohesive, but he’s certainly never boring.
Also, Tilda Swinton is a treasure.
Review by rububiubi ★★★★

i love octavia spencer yelling “chicken”
Review by Tanujj ★★★½

AD 2031, the passengers in the train are the only survivors on earth, yeahh
Though this film could use more character and layers to enhance its drive and punch, it is still an exciting and neatly assembled movie yyyy
Review by Maya K ★★★★

Very interesting story and accurately depicts human social hierarchy
Review by pen 🖊🌈✨ ★★★½

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

my third bong joon-ho film — gotta say this one left a lot to be desired, unfortunately. there just wasn’t enough character and world building for me to really feel much conviction for the story. it was also hard to get past some of the dialogue in this, as it was pretty shallow/lacking substance. the social commentary also felt a little derailed at times and failed to serve a coherent message overall (haha train joke). there are some pretty good scenes scattered about, though — the final act is definitely where Snowpiercer peaks. there’s an instance in which three consecutive moments of payoff occur that was very satisfying, and particularly stood out to me. i was torn between 3.5 and 4 stars…
Review by DarthEasy ★★★★★

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8o9FhDzQP8&ab_channel=DarthEasy
Review by Kiana Garcia ★★★★

I ❤️ Captain America
ok in all seriousness I watched it bc of parasite and ended up not regretting my choice, good movie! the cgi bugs were absolute shit tho ;)
Review by fdp ★★★½

Didn't really care about the feel of the prologue.
All in for more adventurey action movies.
3-4 coooool ass fighting scenes in the middle with all the lighting and the different camera bonkers stuff.
Liked how most of the character's deaths aren't melodramatic for shit.
Not gonna lie Chris Evans makes me feel jack shit. Give me any other white straight male and we probably talking.
Didn't care that much for the philosophical themes / end.
The crazy woman and that bonkers teacher deserve a prize.
Review by fdp ★★★½

Polar express on kronole.
Review by camila ★★★★

apesar da capa feia que dói o filme eh bom!
Review by Scott O'Keeffe ★★★½

Definitely a more audacious and interesting concept than it was a final product but enjoyable nonetheless. Bong Joon-Ho does what he wants and that's admirable. Doesn't come close to Parasite or Memories of Murder but it still has his elements tightly wound in.