Review of Snowpiercer (2013) by Mowhaugh — 18 Jan 2016

I really can't understand the praises for this film. I was really looking forward watching this movie, people talking about a magnificent metaphor of our world, with so much good positive feedback. I was really disappointed.

First of all, it takes so much time to introduce what this is all about, what we're talking about. Then we understand so easily what it's going to be, a path through different stages of the train. The movie doesn't surprise us even once.

What a script. The characters express nothing, we can't show any empathy. There are inconsistencies everywhere you can't focus on the story. But above all, this film is a compilation of all the clichés and stereotypes of the cinema.

I had the feel that I was watching like a b movie sometime. The storyline itself is predictable, some action and supposed "tragic" scenes are scenes we have seen over and over again in so much movies it's sometime laughable.

Finally, we get some "explanation", some kind of moral lesson about our society. It wants us to realize through this moral metaphor that there are different social class in this world, what a surprise.

Sadly, despite all the willingness I had to tell myself it can't be that dull, it has to have a deeper reflection, they just leave you with a botched ending. More than disappointed.