Snowpiercer (2014) Review

I expected a lot out of Snowpiercer. Most critics gave it a good review. Entertainment Weekly gave it an A, which is the best rating a modern movie gets, and 95% of RT critics liked it. As for other websites, I don't really follow them, but I can imagine that most people liked Snowpiercer. The only rating that was mind-boggling was IMDB's. IMDB stands for Internet Movie Database, and I like the site because it offers a huge database on pretty much every movie ever, and I usually agree with their ratings. Often, the ratings change. For example, Neighbors, a May 2014 comedy that I wanted to see started out high at about a 7.8 or 7.9, and ended up dropping to a 6.5. Rarely does it go into the other direction. The strange thing is, Snowpiercer was at 7.0 a few months before the release, and it never changed once to this date. So, I thought Snowpiercer would be a great film. I also liked the cast and the trailer. And fortunately, Snowpiercer did not disappoint.

Snowpiercer was entertaining the entire 126 minute runtime. At the beginning of the film, we are interesting in hearing the history of this new sci-fi idea, we're meeting the great characters, and the brutal violence from the upper class forces us to watch. Chris Evans plays Curtis, a perfect action hero. He's greatly skilled, smart, and has a dark history. I think he's good enough to compete with legends. There is no clear villain at first, but the entire upper class is intimidating and clearly evil. Excitement brews into he audience during talk of a revolt. And when it happens, its movie magic. The scenes are basically battles after battles between the two classes. They are great battles. Completely full of violent, bloody action, Snowpiercer has some of the finest action I've ever seen.

Now I'd like to go into detail about the rest of the plot, but that would spoil it for those who haven't seen the movie. But, the action and excitement increases and increases as they move up the train. I wasn't a big fan of the huge twist and the ending, but the revolution was amazing and breathtaking. Each room in the front of the train is unique and backed by outstanding special effects. Snowpiercer is a bloody, relentless action movie with as many deaths as a war film, but it is able to stay a really intelligent, thought-out, confusing masterpiece. Each actor plays their part perfectly, and Snowpiercer is original, and near-perfect.
Movie Rating: A+