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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

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

action drama science fiction

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Popular reviews

Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½

The best Captain America movie of the year.
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 88

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 Demi Adejuyigbe ★★★★ 10

I wish Tilda Swinton did more comedy. Doesn’t even have to be on a train if she wants
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★½ 9

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 DirkH ★★★½ 33

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…

Recent reviews

Review by Blumensaat ★★½

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

I felt like I have already seen this movie but just in a tall building rather than on a long train. The whole commentary on society's' different classes divided into different sections is a little too on-the-nose for my taste in these sorts of movies. I also think that it simply didn't make any sense in the context of this movie and therefore felt like a forced metaphor and that forced symbolism is something I really hate.
Why is it necessary for the train to have different societies? Most of the people on board the train were passengers and they seemed to have been allotted their space on the train by chance. Only a small part of the passengers were…
Review by James Hubert ★★★

Meh
Review by SamayP

The allegory with class and power is depicted in such an unique and interesting way. Performances hit hard. Visual storytelling was on point. I genuinely love it.
Review by mas0n ★★★½

the roles that ed harris plays can be played only by ed harris
Review by luis ★★★★

a rustic voyage with bong’s juicy guts everywhere
Review by Cendir ★★★★

Captain America takes on climate change, classisim and starving. Fun times to be had. Not litteral fun, its very deoressing and a bit meta by the end
Review by luisamarie ★★★½

The cannibalism monologue really shook me.
This movie’s great if you like basically nonstop violent fighting but I wasn’t super feeling it.
Review by HaysCode ★★★★½

If they gave the SYFY network a major Hollywood budget, this is the movie that they would make. I absolutely loved watching every minute of this movie. The fact that I was drunk at the time, has no bearing on this review.
Review by mrbrick814 ★★★★

Pretty Ight movie.. dig the story line even though the damn world isn’t gonna freeze over. Was cool. Good watch recommend by my boi Jake.