a5c7b9f00b It&#39;s 2031, seventeen years after authorities in seventy-nine countries decided collectively to combat global warming with the coolant CW-7. The result was the Earth being immediately sent into a deep freeze, killing all human life except a handful who now live on a proverbial &quot;ark&quot;, a revolutionary train built before 2014 by a train aficionado named Wilford, the train which at that time was considered useless and self-indulgent. The train is required to be constantly moving to generate energy for life inside, it which circumnavigates the globe on a single continuous track once every year. The train is still controlled in all its aspects by Wilford, who has created three separate classes housed in different parts of the train: the privileged &quot;one percent&quot; who are at the front of the train, the workers who support both ends and occupy the middle of the train, and the &quot;tail people&quot;, the masses who live at the back of the train like cattle in a windowless cattle car, they being solely fed protein bars, whose ingredients the tail people do not know. The face of Wilford&#39;s ideology to those in the tail end is Minister Mason,Wilford never ventures to that end of the train. Some of the policies which Wilford has implemented is taking many of the children from the tail end for an unknown purpose never to be seen by the people in the tail end again, and committing occasional indiscriminate genocide in the tail end, most of the tail people believinga method of population control and to demonstrate his dictatorial power in an effort to have a complacent populace among the masses. There have been many attempts of revolution by the tail people in the past, all quashed by Wilford. Curtis, one of the tail people, wants to attempt another revolution, he believing all past attempts having failed because they have focused on Wilfordopposed to what he feels needs to occur for power: take control of the engine at the front. Supporting Curtis in this fight are among others: Gilliam, the wise old man; Edgar, who Curtis took under his wing when he became orphaned in the early years; and Tanya and Andrew, who want to find their children taken away. Along the way, they have to co-opt Namgoong Minsoo, an addict of a synthetic hallucinogen called Kronole, he who designed the security system, namely the locking mechanism of the gates between all the train cars. As Curtis and his team try to work their way from car to car from the tail to the front, their priorities are influenced by what they see, what they learn and by revelations including secrets from their individual pasts. The nations release the substance CW-7 with the intention of controlling the global warning, but accidentally it results in another Ice Age destroying Earth. The only survivors live in the train Snowpiercer which is driven by a perpetual motion engine created by the millionaire Wilford that lives in the engine part. In 2031, after seventeen years, there is a fight of classes inside the train since the oppressed lower class lives in dreadful conditions in the last wagons of the train while the elite lives in the front wagons. The lower class is fed with protein bars only; they are oppressed and punished by Minister Mason and her brutal guards; and their children are taken every now and then when they reach a certain height. The leaders Gilliam, Curtis Everett and Edgar are plotting a scheme to reach the engine and talk to Wilford about their conditions using the addicted security engineer Namgoong Minsoo and his clairvoyant daughter Yona that are imprisoned to open the locked doors. When the son of Tanya, Timmy, is captured by Mason, they decide to execute their plan. There are many casualties and soon Curtis discovers that they have been manipulated by Wilford to balance the resources in the train, and why the magnate keeps the lower class alive. This was a fun film to watch because of its linear simplistic story. You get a good understanding of the plot at the beginning and it&#39;s literally getting from the back of the train to the front, while going through different unique and sometimes visually pleasing train cars. I would gofarsaying the is the best performance of Chris Evans I&#39;ve ever seen. Would highly recommend just based on the good Sci-Fi plot. 45 mins in and I couldn&#39;t take any more.<br/><br/>Just the premise of this movie alone is absolutely ridiculous. A train? Seriously? The world ends and this is the best solution they could come up with to keep humanity going?? A train?? Really??<br/><br/>I couldn&#39;t get past how catastrophically ridiculous and utterly unbelievable this idea is. Not an underground city or even a large bomb shelter? Nope. A moving train. Wow, brilliant. No spaceships or aliens? /sarcasm Just the logistics of the idea make it impossible to take this movie seriously.<br/><br/>Forget about what it takes to keep a human alive… keeping a train running for years on end? What??? Fuel, parts, maintenance. No stops. You&#39;re supposed to refuel, perform repairs, and so on, without stopping? Right. What about the tracks? There&#39;s no debris or malfunctions with ANY of the tracks?<br/><br/>My first thought was, what powers the train? Since I couldn&#39;t get past that, it wasn&#39;t even worth thinking about how they would keep the passengers alive, who got to be on the train and why, who&#39;s running things, etc. Does the train just go in a huge circle? Why even be on a train if you aren&#39;t going somewhere?<br/><br/>Forgetting all of the above, the terrible and over-the-top performances from some of the actors was unbearable to watch. The characters go from totally believable to completely unbelievable. There&#39;s nothing in between. I was thinking that the directors must have known that this movie was not meant to be taken seriously. It has to be tongue-in-cheek. Right? While watching some of the scenes I was literally doing the &quot;WTF&quot; expression with my face in disbelief, surprise, shock, and so on,to what was going on. It was too stupid to watch.<br/><br/>Well, watch it and you&#39;ll know what I mean. Or don&#39;t and find a freshly painted wall to sit around and watch dry. That will be a much more pleasurable experience.<br/><br/>Anyway, there is no way this movie has an accurate rating. It&#39;s not possible. I rented it for the rating and sci-fi aspect, primarily,I&#39;m usually in agreement with the movie ratings here. If I was being generous, I&#39;d give a 2 or 3, max, but there&#39;s no reason to be generous with trash like this. The film preaches resolutely to the choir, and cinephiles in sync with the film's politics may still blanch at how snugly their interests are courted.
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