No More Excuses. 7 Reasons Why You Have To Watch ‘Snowpiercer’ This Weekend

The super stylized action thriller Snowpiercer is on Netflix a month early and that means that you’ve officially run out of excuses. You have to watch it.

In case you missed the slick indie’s buzz this summer, Snowpiercer is an action flick that takes place in a dystopian future where the last remaining humans are stuck on a fancy train that is constantly circling an ice-covered Earth. These survivors are split up on the train by class: the privileged rich live in absolute comfort and opulence in the “front” of the train, and the dregs of society struggle to stay alive in the tail. Chris Evans plays Curtis, a clever young man who leads the members of the tail in a violent uprising. His goal is to go all the way to the front of the train to take the supermachine’s engine from its genius creator (and overlord) Wilfred. Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, and John Hurt co-star.

If you’re still unconvinced, here are 7 reasons why you need to watch Snowpiercer tonight:

1) It’s the best action film Chris Evans made this year.

This summer, Chris Evans starred in a little action flick called Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It’s hand’s down one of our favorite films of the year, but Snowpiercer is better. That’s right. While Captain America: The Winter Soldier breaks serious new ground for Marvel movies, Snowpiercer is an absolute breath of fresh air. Not only is the film absolutely dark, badass, and brilliant, but Chris Evans delivers an intense monologue towards the end that is simultaneously heart-wrenching and hilarious to mimic later with your friends.

2) It’s the coolest video game movie that wasn’t based on a video game.

You know how the best one-person shooter games always have these levels that you’ve got to get through? And how each level is harder, scarier, and bloodier than the one before? Well, the characters in Snowpiercer have to battle their way from a caboose to a train engine, and each car they enter presents new challenges and horrors. One car is full of crazy masked guys carrying hatchets and another features a deceptively sweet school-teacher.  Oh, and the scariest ones are those that illustrate just how bad the people in the tail of the train have had it for years and years.

3) Tilda Swinton makes a deliriously awesome villain.

It’s been a long time since Tilda Swinton first sent shivers down every child’s spine as Jadis, the White Witch, in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, but she’s still got the ability to scare people. Here, she is a glorified middle manager with aggressively bad teeth who worships Wilford and his culture of inequality. It’s pretty great.

4) You get to see Octavia Spencer as a mad mama bear.

You loved it when Octavia Spencer made Bryce Dallas Howard eat her poop in The Help. Now, in Snowpiercer, you can watch her beat up a bunch of dudes.

5) It’s spectacularly well-made.

Snowpiercer was directed by Bong Joon-ho and the hip Korean auteur brings his trademark love of crazy plots, bonkers action sequences, and gorgeous visuals to the film. Remember how we said each car presented new challenges for our heroes? Well, they also have their own design aesthetics. One is a pitch black slaughterhouse, and another is a dreamy aquarium car. It’s spectacular.

6) GREY.

Luke Pasqualino has been slowly building buzz for himself on British shows like Skins and Musketeers, but he almost steals the show in Snowpiercer. He plays a taciturn young warrior who might just be the tail section’s strongest asset in a fight. He’s the one that Curtis and everyone else relies upon to take down the front section’s scariest warriors. Bong Joon-ho has revealed in discussions since the release of the film that Grey was in a homosexual relationship with the tail section’s previous leader, Gilliam.

7) It’s on Netflix a month early.

Earlier this week, Netflix announced that Snowpiercer would be available to stream on November 22. However, the film has already dropped on the streaming service.

See? No excuses. You can stream Snowpiercer right now or anytime you want now.

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