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.
It's so hard to describe how amazing Snowpiercer is without giving away everything that makes it amazing.
– Christy Lemire,
ChristyLemire.com,
23 Jul 2014
fresh:
There's a righteous savagery to this movie that's almost but not quite obscured by the lushness of its imagined world.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
30 Sep 2014
fresh:
This is powerful stuff, and all the more so for its straightforwardness.
– John Semley,
Globe and Mail,
2 Jan 2015
fresh:
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.
– John Anderson,
Wall Street Journal,
2 Jan 2015
rotten:
"Snowpiercer" warms the heart, but doesn't penetrate it.