Snowpiercer (2013)

Snowpiercer rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.1/10· 418K votes

Rotten Tomatoes94%

Metacritic84%

TMDb6.909/10· 10K votes

With 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 84/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Snowpiercer

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

Cast of Snowpiercer

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  Chris Evans

  as Curtis

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  Song Kang-ho

  as Namgoong Minsu

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  Ed Harris

  as Wilford

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  John Hurt

  as Gilliam

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  Tilda Swinton

  as Mason

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  Jamie Bell

  as Edgar

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  Octavia Spencer

  as Tanya

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  Ewen Bremner

  as Andrew

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  Ko A-sung

  as Yona

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  Alison Pill

  as Teacher

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  Luke Pasqualino

  as Grey

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  Vlad Ivanov

  as Franco The Elder

Snowpiercer facts

Original title

설국열차

Budget

$39.2M

Box office

$86.8M

Our take on Snowpiercer

Bong Joon Ho's 2013 science-fiction drama unfolds entirely aboard a train circling a frozen, near-dead Earth, kept moving by a perpetual-motion engine after a climate experiment goes catastrophically wrong. The catch is social: the survivors live under a rigid class system, the wretched at the tail and the privileged at the front, and the story becomes a literal push forward through the carriages. Bong turns that horizontal geography into pointed allegory, mixing brutal action with dark wit and striking, self-contained worlds in each car. It's for viewers who like genre cinema with ideas and edge rather than pure spectacle. A ferocious, inventive parable about inequality moving at full speed.