CUT THE CRAP: Movie review of Joon-ho Bong’s Snowpiercer by Howard Casner

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Warning: SPOILERS

snowpiercerThere is one clever and rather effective scene in Snowpiercer, the new movie about a train containing all the survivors of a global warming apocalyptic event that travels the world and can never stop.

Just as a battle royale is about to erupt, everyone is ordered to stop and wait while some of the participants count down from ten as the train passes over a certain bridge, a bridge the train passes over only once annually, meaning that it’s, wait for it…yes, New Years.

Once the countdown is over, it’s back to the bloodshed.

But outside of that, I’m sorry, but I have to say…no, you know what? I’m not sorry.

Snowpiercer is crap.

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