In this summer of movies telling you that vehicles are really aliens here to take over, or the time when apes take over, or Zombies, or giant lizards and what not, occasionally a movie of the sic-fi genre gets made with actual human interaction and thought provoking dialogue. Consider "Snowpiercer" a movie that you won't see about events in our not to distant future. The plot- Global Warming is real and gets worse. The earth scientist come up with a chemical treatment to put in the atmosphere to control things. Instead of helping it causes conditions to become unlivable in that the planet cools and everything and everyone freezes. Instead of an escape rocket, a train with a perpetual engine is created and parts of everything good is on board and it circles the earth until things can be solved or get better.
That is the start of the movie. And like most survival stories from Lord of the Flies to now. There are haves and have nots, people in control versus people who want control. It is a multi-layered story with an international cast. It is R for language and violence.
I give it ***1/2 stars. 2014 movie 26
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