Review of Snowpiercer (2013) by Adamp1916 — 29 Jun 2015

This movie is terrible. First of all, how did they build a gigantic train track that never stops if they can't even go outside to build it? Assuming they built it before everything froze in anticipation, fine, that's the least of the things that makes this movie bad.

It's not supposed to be entirely realistic, let's just put that aside as well. So, Captain America's whole plan is to get to the front of the train to help Gilliam take it over and run things again, presumably because the people in the tail end are unfairly treated. When he finally gets to the front, he learns that Gilliam and Wilfred work together to keep the train's population in check. He's all mad that they chose who to kill and how to prevent population overgrowth, but he also decides it's OK to kill EVERYBODY? No. Sorry. That's retarded.

People sustained life under harsh circumstances for 18 years, and he basically decides it's ok to just doom mankind completely? No. Sorry. That's retarded. There's like three people left alive with no food, water, or shelter. Apparently killing all of the people, including the ones you were trying to "free," is a better alternative to mankind continuing to live. The plot twist at the end and his choice to ultimately let Han blow a hole in the train is the most non-sensical load of trash ever.

Let's talk about that. Han (I think that's his name, shows how forgettable the characters were), has a hidden agenda to escape the train based on a plane he's been watching being slowly uncovered. To do this he horde's kronole, their drug of choice, which is apparently super flamable. At the end he reveals to Captain America that he's been building a bomb to blow a hole in a steel gate, which is why he decided to go with in the first place. When he shows him the bomb, it doesn't have any of the kronole chunks on it that he'd been collecting for opening the gates; the bomb is already built, AND he already had the matches. Is there a reason.... Any reason AT ALL that he needed to go all the way to the front of the train to try and blow up a steel door instead of just blowing a hole through any part of the train or even a window? The answer is No.. No there isn't.

Han's plan doesn't make sense, Captain America's choice at the end doesn't make sense, and it makes the entire movie just seem lke a bunch of filler garbage.