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Showing posts with label John Hurt. Show all posts

26 November 2014

Hatchets in the Dark (B+)


Holy crap. Turns out Chris Evans can act.  He can hold his own against Tilda Swinton and John Freaking Hurt.  "Captain America" proves himself an actor who balances brutal action with believable character discovery in Snowpiercer.

A train endlessly circles the ice-encased earth.  Aboard the thousand carriages of this ark-on-rails, humanity's remnant survives.  The population is harshly striated, class determined by one's distance from the locomotive.  Evans leads the latest revolt, taking Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, and Kang-ho Song along in a quest for the holy engine.