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Snowpiercer was written and directed by Academy Award-winning Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, who has also helmed such projects as The Host, Mother, Okja, and Parasite. The film’s story is loosely based on a French graphic novel titled Le Transperceneige, written by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette. While Bong Joon-ho would go on to produce and helm numerous other popular films, Snowpiercer serves as the filmmaker’s first English-language movie, exposing the acclaimed director to a wide international audience.

The Snowpiercer movie stars Chris Evans as Curtis, a leader of a group of impoverished apocalypse survivors working together to reach class equality. The film also touts standout performances from the likes of Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, Tilda Swinton, Song Kang-ho, Alison Pill, and Hidden Figures‘ Octavia Spencer. Snowpiercer is said to have taken nearly a decade to complete, contributing to Bong Joon Ho’s decision to step back and focus on smaller-scale projects in the past decade.

The plot of the Snowpiercer movie centers on a self-sustaining train that traverses the Earth in constant motion, breaking through the icy terrain as the world enters into a new ice age. The train is composed of dozens, if not hundreds, of individual cars, which house the final remaining humans left on the planet. The train cars are segregated into social caste systems, with the ultra-wealthy utilizing the cars toward the front of the train and the most heavily impoverished languishing in the back of the train.

Under the guidance of a revolutionary leader named Gilliam, Chris Evans‘ Curtis and company lead the rear train car in a revolt against their class oppressors, attempting to push further and further to the front of the train until they can meet with Wilford, the train conductor who owns the entire operation.

The gang makes their way through the Snowpiercer train throughout the movie’s run-time, encountering significant obstacles and harrowing details of life in the upper crust as they move along. I won’t spoil too much of the plot here, but things begin to really get insane at the halfway point of the film, and the tension only continues to ratchet until the climactic finish.

REVIEW SCORE

Upon release in 2013, Snowpiercer managed to impress movie critics and audiences alike, amassing a well-deserved Rotten Tomatoes score of 94 percent certified fresh. Today, Snowpiercer can be streamed for free on Tubi. Just be sure to keep away from the news for a while after watching the film, unless you don’t mind feeling inspired to take up arms against the billionaire ruling class.