#12 on Dissolve's best films of 2014
"For a while, it looked as if Harvey Weinstein might force Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho to release a truncated version of his highly anticipated fifth feature. Bong won that battle, thankfully, but it’s a wonder that such a demented vision, requiring a fairly sizable budget, ever got made in the first place. There’s no subtlety to Snowpiercer’s dystopian near-future, in which what little is left of humanity endlessly rides a mammoth super-train around the frozen Earth, with the elite living it up in the front cars and the huddled masses surviving on roach-gelatin at the rear. Unlike last year’s dreary Elysium, however, Bong’s adaptation of an obscure French graphic novel has manic fun with its grim premise, from Tilda Swinton’s grotesque parody of an entitled twit to the way each successive compartment on the train, moving forward, is more opulent and eye-popping than the last. Given the ever-widening gulf between rich and poor in many ostensibly first-world countries (e.g., America), perhaps there’s no better way to address the problem than by pushing it to such a ludicrous extreme. Certainly there’s no more entertaining way." -thedissolve.com
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