Snowpiercer
2013 · Movie · R · 127 min · ★ 6.9 · 89% critics
After a failed attempt to stop global warming leaves the world frozen, the remaining humans live aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that constantly circles the globe. Life on board becomes sharply divided into sections and social classes, and a desperate uprising in the tail car aims to push their way toward the front.
Based on Le Transperceneige
Also known as Snowpiercer - Le Transperce-neige
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Details
- Original title
- 설국열차
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2013-08-01
- Language
- Korean
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 89/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (10,435 votes)
- Box office
- $67,400,000
- Budget
- $39,200,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this dark, class-focused sci-fi action thriller aboard a never-stopping train, especially if you like Children of Men or Cloud Atlas; Not for you if you need airtight realism, short movies, or you dislike prolonged tension and dialogue-heavy storytelling.
Pros: bold social allegory; intense train setting; strong performances | Cons: some incoherent moments; long runtime; uneven believability
Themes
- new year's eve
- rebellion
- cold
- parent child relationship
- winter
- brothel
- child labour
- pregnancy
- dystopia
- allegory
- post-apocalyptic future
- bridge
- +20 more
Cast & crew
Chris Evans
as Curtis
Song Kang-ho
as Namgoong Minsu
Ed Harris
as Wilford
John Hurt
as Gilliam
Tilda Swinton
as Mason
Jamie Bell
as Edgar
Octavia Spencer
as Tanya
Ewen Bremner
as Andrew
Ko A-sung
as Yona
Alison Pill
as Teacher
Directed by Bong Joon Ho