Review of Snowpiercer

Snowpiercer (2013)
Like watching a train wreck in slow motion you know you should probably stop, but you do it anyway.
7 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Contains plenty of spoilers

Most of the 'what' moments have been explained, though despite those the movie reeks of neo-leftist propaganda, it didn't even take me to watch the movie to catch onto that one, the first two minutes said it all "sponsored by the blah blah blah of cultural arts" and other special thanks that would indicate nobody expected this movie. One so full of gaping plot holes especially the "we have this experimental new gas that should cool the world down if sprayed into the upper atmosphere because global warming is just _that bad_ in 2014, no time to see if it has any negative effects" (though all the 'frozen' scenes seem to show that there was no desertification and no massive pressure to rush ahead), I mean why not carry out small scale trials first. An experimental trial gone wrong would have been a much more believable premise than "we're going to spray this into the upper atmosphere of 72 countries at the same time, you know; because we can". Along with that we have people talking about how they ate people's babies but are completely disgusted when they find out their mystery protein bars are made from an abundant and never- ending supply of roaches. As well as "we have to thin the population by having riots riots every few years that almost completely deplete our ammunition rather than having people sterilised (which would be extremely simple considering Wonka, or William or Whatever his name is controls the food supply), die due to a 'small mechanical failure' and many other things which don't tend to provoke all out revolution. The art director deserves praise which is why it gets more than one star, but other than that it gets silly fast.
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