Wandering steps and slow

Snowpiercer

Crit

Part Brazil, part Road Warrior, part Soylent Green, part Star Wars, part Clockwork Orange . . . well, let's just say part every dystopian revolution flick and every postapocalyptic disaster flick of the past half-century, but what a stunning pastiche it is. It never lets you get comfortable, but it does occasionally let you think you know roughly where it's going. However, you're wrong: though the setting adheres to its schedule with ultra-Mussoliniesque fidelity, the flick goes exuberantly off the rails. Like Joon-ho Bong's earlier The Host and Mother, this film defiantly eats sushi and does not pay.