Okay, I can understand if you have never heard of this one. It has a lot of star power with Chris Evans, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, and Jamie Bell. I believe that this is a foreign film, as it was not made in America, and there are some good and bad things about this film.

Snowpiercer is about a train of the same name, and it carries the last survivors of the human race. Apparently, there was some attempt to stop global warming, and it overcompensated. The film opens with some text saying that there is no longer life on Earth, and then promptly contradicts itself by showing life on this train.

The film opens by showing the back of the train, which is the home to passengers that were apparently thrown on the train just before it hit the rails. There is some kind of hierarchy going on with this train, so those in the back of the train are the lower class, and there is some upper class 1 percent towards the engine.

One of the reason why I like this film is that it is practically allegory, using the train to symbolize the class system. The problem is that this symbolism is really shoved in your face, and it feels like a by-the-book parable.

Okay, there is a lot of suspension of disbelief that has to happen here. First, this train goes around these tracks on an annual route, but it it is snowing as bad as they say, then wouldn’t the tracks be blocked? Seriously, there is no way this train would still be going, honestly.

Also, there is a matter of food. In the film, the poor are given this black Jello stuff, and they show later where this comes from. At first I was thinking it was people, kind of like Soylent Green, but it ends up being insects. Personally, I wouldn’t have a problem with that, but where do the bugs come from?

I also don’t know how this train could have got its caste system, but it sure the heck does it. I will have to say that I like the premise of Snowpiercer, but some premises are harder to pull off, and this film goes a route that is a little too preachy. It also has an ending that doesn’t make a lot of sense either. It is on Netflix, so perhaps you can give it a chance if you have a subscription.