In order to get a screening of this movie I had to drive to Grapevine because none of the theaters in my area are showing it. I do not regret the decision to do this at all.
This movie has Chris Evans, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Tilda Swinton and so many other people that I don't want to disrespect by misspelling their names. It's based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob.
In this movie a failed attempted to fix global warming causes a second ice age. There's a small percentage of the population that manages to get on a train that travels the world. It takes exactly one year to make the full circuit. During the time on the train a class system evolves. People at the front are the rich people in first class, people in the back are the poor people in third class or the tail section. The whole train was designed and built by a man named Wilford.
Chris Evans plays Curtis Everett, a man that is set to start a revolution that will actually succeed this time. All he has to do is get to the front of the train. To the engine. He plans to kill Wilford and take over the train and then there will be no class system anymore.
The journey from the tail to the engine is a hard one with a lot of people dying along the way, including his best friend. He's tortured by the fact that he has to choose between capturing the person that is essentially the second in command of the trail or saving his friend and he chooses to capture her which results in his friend's death.
Essentially, the "end of the world" happens on July 1st, 2014 (yup, four days ago) when a chemical is released into the atmosphere to try to cool down temperatures caused by global warming and ends up causing a second ice age.
The movie is very good and very well done. The cast is brilliant. Never in my life have I been as happy that a character dies as I was when Curtis (Evans) shot Mason (Swinton) in the face. She was that kind of character and Tilda did a beautiful job. Ed Harris plays Wilford and you find out a lot of very interesting things when he has a conversation with Curtis. It's almost heart breaking.
Over all I give the movie a very high score. I definitely plan on owning it as soon as that becomes an option and if it comes to a theater near me I will go see it again. It's slow at the beginning but it does pick up about twenty minutes in or so. The action is great and there is a lot of violence but that kind of thing is expected from a revolution. The movie is rated R because of it, though.
I definitely recommend going to see this movie. Chris Evans will break your heart in more than one scene, but then he's really good at that. I've lost track of how many times I've been in a movie and just thought "Damn you Chris Evans." because he brings on the feels in epic proportions. I still can't believe I used to hate that guy. I was kind of stupid back then.
If you have a chance, go see Snowpiercer. You will not regret it.
