10) Snowpiercer
Movies like this just don’t get made any more. Boasting a stellar cast, a bonkers concept and a steam punk pirate version of John Hurt, Snowpiercer is something special. The screenplay may clunk and the action may defy comprehension, but it’s a perfect storm of bat-shit insanity that keeps on giving.
Chris Evans is gruff as hell as the man inciting revolution on the last bastion of human society – a train that has devolved into a bonkers Marxist nightmare as it circumvents a globe in a permanent apocalyptic winter. Tilda Swinton is magnificent, Jamie Bell does his best Colin Farrell impression and Alison Pill plays the organ in a world that is equal parts Gilliam and Glukhovsky – and if those aren’t selling points I don’t know what is.
Following the the box office flop of Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, major studios seemed reluctant to invest in another ambitious sci-fi, but boy are we glad they shelled out for this one. Everyone loves a crazy movie, and Snowpiercer is about as crazy as you can get.
Published: Jan 3, 2015 09:35 pm