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Plot Summary
A post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity’s last survivors aboard a globe-spanning super train. One man (Chris Evans) will risk everything to lead a revolt for control of the engine and the future of the world.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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95%- Reviews Counted: 161
- Fresh: 153
- Rotten: 8
- Average Rating: 8.1/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Violent, often absurd, but full of brilliant surprises.
Fresh: There's a righteous savagery to this movie that's almost but not quite obscured by the lushness of its imagined world.
Fresh: The future is miserably dystopian as usual in this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, but at least it's thoughtful, stylishly crafted, high-speed misery that keeps on hurtling relentlessly forward -- even though there's nowhere to go.
Fresh: As with The Host, the political satire is teased out gradually as the story progresses and never intrudes on one's enjoyment of the movie's richly imagined world.
Customer Reviews
Action-Packed & Philosophical
Yes, it is competing with yet another "Transformers" movie, but if you're a Sci-Fi fan because of its ability to predict the future and/or dream of our potential and/or give you a third-eye view of our present state, then this film will please you. It will touch you, like a good episode of "Twilight Zone," keeping you entertained that day but also making you think about in bed that evening. The film does a good job of making you think, showing you many arguments, and showing you a potential (although perhaps frightening) solution. It may not be enough of an aesthetic, superficial, and action-flooded, commercial film to break a box-office record, but it will become a cult icon.
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Please do yourself a favor and don’t watch this film. It isn’t as much a Sci-Fi movie as a messed up art project.
This movie sucked. Kind of.
Had the potential to be profound and Gilliam-esque, and squandered it by incessantly beating the metaphor into your skull over and over and over. Its a cool metaphor. We get it. Got it. No, trust me, I get it. Seriously. Aaaaand I’m over it.
If Scorsese is the master of subtly presenting complex themes to the audience and letting them decide what to make of it, this film is the Michael Bay of screaming them at you.
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