Director Bong Joon-Ho’s “Snowpiercer” is a superb masterpiece of science fiction, with a bizarre pedigree. It’s a French graphic novel adapted in Korea using a mostly English-speaking cast, about a world beset by freezing temperatures where the remaining human population now lives on an immensely long train that never stops circumnavigating what’s left of the world.
But after most of the rest of the world has gotten to see the film, America will finally get a release courtesy of The Weinstein Company on June 27. Which is great news, because this is not only a superbly directed, exciting film with some of the best action sequences in movie history, but also a breakthrough performance for “Captain America” star Chris Evans.
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