lindae:

Snowpiercer (#53)

A positively brilliant film that absolutely lives up to the hype as being one of the smartest, most stunning and original action films I’ve seen in a very long while (and certainly so far in 2014). Bong Joon-Ho is an auteur; a master of his visual style and story and also very good at handling his gifted cast. (Plus he protected his film against Harvey Scissorhands Weinstein and won which is an impressive feat on its own.) While Jamie Bell, Luke Pasqualino and Ah-sung Ko steal all of their scenes, the major leads of Chris Evans (who adds this to his undervalued library of inspired alt-sci fi films like Push and Sunshine), Tilda Swinton and Jon Hurt all deliver remarkable performances. It’s a terrific social commentary amidst fantastic action sequences and a twisting plot that achieves the impressive balance of involving mass casualties without sentimentality or glorification. It’s horrific and heart wrenching as well as positively gorgeous. If you can’t rally yourself for a cinema screening it’s on VOD on iTunes and Amazon as well as other venues and WELL worth your money.