a5c7b9f00b It&#39;s 2031, seventeen years after authorities in seventy-nine countries decided collectively to combat global warming with the coolant CW-7. The result was the Earth being immediately sent into a deep freeze, killing all human life except a handful who now live on a proverbial &quot;ark&quot;, a revolutionary train built before 2014 by a train aficionado named Wilford, the train which at that time was considered useless and self-indulgent. The train is required to be constantly moving to generate energy for life inside, it which circumnavigates the globe on a single continuous track once every year. The train is still controlled in all its aspects by Wilford, who has created three separate classes housed in different parts of the train: the privileged &quot;one percent&quot; who are at the front of the train, the workers who support both ends and occupy the middle of the train, and the &quot;tail people&quot;, the masses who live at the back of the train like cattle in a windowless cattle car, they being solely fed protein bars, whose ingredients the tail people do not know. The face of Wilford&#39;s ideology to those in the tail end is Minister Mason,Wilford never ventures to that end of the train. Some of the policies which Wilford has implemented is taking many of the children from the tail end for an unknown purpose never to be seen by the people in the tail end again, and committing occasional indiscriminate genocide in the tail end, most of the tail people believinga method of population control and to demonstrate his dictatorial power in an effort to have a complacent populace among the masses. There have been many attempts of revolution by the tail people in the past, all quashed by Wilford. Curtis, one of the tail people, wants to attempt another revolution, he believing all past attempts having failed because they have focused on Wilfordopposed to what he feels needs to occur for power: take control of the engine at the front. Supporting Curtis in this fight are among others: Gilliam, the wise old man; Edgar, who Curtis took under his wing when he became orphaned in the early years; and Tanya and Andrew, who want to find their children taken away. Along the way, they have to co-opt Namgoong Minsoo, an addict of a synthetic hallucinogen called Kronole, he who designed the security system, namely the locking mechanism of the gates between all the train cars. As Curtis and his team try to work their way from car to car from the tail to the front, their priorities are influenced by what they see, what they learn and by revelations including secrets from their individual pasts. Set in 2031, the entire world is frozen except for those aboard the Snowpiercer. For 17 years, the world&#39;s survivors are on a train hurtling around the globe creating their own economy and class system. Led by Curtis, a group of lower-class citizens living in squalor at the back of the train are determined to get to the front of the train and spread the wealth around. Each section of the train holds new surprises for the group who have to battle their way through. A revolution is underway. Spoilers galore.<br/><br/>Logic is absent since minute one. A never stopping train that runs for years in weather where everything is frozen. Still, things are not covered by snow after 17 winters. The list is extensive, but probably not worth writing, and other reviewers have done it already. Hundreds of people in the front sections of the train, but no living quarters. <br/><br/>No explanation whatsoeverto why a magic train was a better solution than using the engine to power an underground compound or some other reasonable arrangement. A shootout at a school with the teacher and the kids magically disappear. Meanwhile, the guards dealing with the people at the tail section had no bullets but the teacher did?<br/><br/>Anyway, awful movie. I used the time while my family watched it to write this review. OK, the title says it all.<br/><br/>That is a line from what is supposed to be the most serious part of the movie. How can someone write that and then lots of people read it and be like yeah, that IS the line. Let&#39;s throw money at &quot;babies taste best&quot;. <br/><br/>It is laugh out loud funny, though. This falls into a new class of scifi comedy that doesn&#39;t mean to be comedy. This could be a whole new genre: distupian. <br/><br/>Not sure if those who say this movie is a &quot;masterpiece&quot; are just trying to hype and pad the rating. This is no masterpiece. Perhaps this movie makes sense when translated to Korean. Perhaps I didn&#39;t huff enough toxic waste like a few of the main characters do. <br/><br/>This movie wishes it was Equilibrium, which really isn&#39;t a lofty goal, but fell short across the board.<br/><br/>With all this hate, if you are a scifi junky, I still marginally recommend it. Evans is a revelation here, delivering a haunted performance that his previous work has only suggested he had in him. He gives the film a solid center, allowing others in the cast to explore the extreme.
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