Absolutely stupid,waste of 2 hours of time. Must be bored to produce a movie after destroying the world and making it for the enjoyment of some rich old bastard who thinks he is god.No stars.Shit movie even with Chris Evans in it.If you are high and drunk don't even watch it,you will just be more depressed.

Survivors of Earth's second Ice Age live out their days on a luxury train that ploughs through snow and ice. The train's poorest residents, who live in the squalid caboose, plan to improve their lot by taking over the engine room. I found out this was taken from a graphic novel series but it makes it as a 2 hour movie. It has a steampunk look to it which supports it's apocalyptic, techno-suicidal theme. The idea seams ridiculous but it's just a prop for the action-filled plot which is copied in other movies (World War Z, Mortal Engines, etc.) Remarkable acting by Chris Evans and certainly, Tilda Swinden who's alway good. The metaphor is obvious: humanity's downfall amidst the technology which fails to save them. Having seen that in awhile ... like just last week ... five times. Good action movie if you like dark themes and over-the-top characters.

I think to fully appreciate this movie, I recommend reading all of the SnowPiercer graphic novels, and watching the bonus part about what it took to cram 5 books worth of ideas into this movie.

I found the way each characters from different class systems and functions view themselves and others quite interesting. What is tolerable/acceptable to one isn't for another.

Similarly, I'm sure there's many other ways to perceive this movie, depending in the viewers vantage point.

You would have to like Chris Evans to like this movie. All the shots without him in them were quite good. :-)

The direction is straight action movie, which means any scene that could have had emotion is flat.

If you finish the movie caring about what has happened to any of the characters I would be surprised.

One of the Best Sci Fi films of the past 10 Years.

An absolutely brilliant movie, nothing to add to previous positive comments. For me, the most memorable scene is the one in the school. Note the right-arm gesture of the teacher, followed by the students, coupled with the 1930s set and costumes. And Ed Harris is outstanding (as ever) in the final speech, a warning for our times.

Snowpiercer is an in-your-face metaphor for humanity hurtling toward climatic destruction on the rails of technology, a stratified society doomed to loop around an endless track in a metal tube isolated from nature. There are caricatures and stereotypes; the ridiculous decadence of the first class passengers is a bit over-the-top. However, the plot moves along quickly to a more meaningful conclusion. The most powerful scene is Chris Evans describing the first months of starvation on the train for the have-nots, a speech that will connect to an act of redemption. Warning: the hand-to-hand combat using primitive weapons is graphically violent, although not gratuitous; desperate people resort to what’s at hand to survive.

If you're not the type to look for deeper meanings and metaphors, this movie probably isn't for you. If, knowing the whole story, you're the type to watch a movie again just to see the allusions you may have missed, you'll probably love it.

I found it to be a silly and violent movie. And what was up with the ending?!

This movie cannot be watched lightly. It must be watched and rewatched to find the subtleties. Thematically, it is a metaphor for society. Artistically, the different layers within the setting challenges us to predict and be surpised. Someone said this movie was boring: boring is the axe that bores into the skulls in some of the scenes. Boring might seem the shoe speech to an audience incapable of listening critically and relating the deeper ideas to ideas already apparent in history. As for the train going on forever within those environmental conditions and without derailing, it is, once more, a metaphor for society, and a sharp criticism at that.