First of all, the story was very original. It's an adaptation of a graphic novel but aside from the train, not much else is actually from it. I liked how different everything was about it.
There were also a number of twists and I love when I can't predict all the twists in a film...although before this film, I had already started not trusting any role that John Hurt plays just because it's John Hurt playing it.
This is another thing I really liked about it..the cast. I will admit that I already fangirled Chris Evans, Jamie Bell and Alison Pill but I wasn't familiar with Song Kang-ho and Go Ah-sung and they were both AWESOME!
The Cinematography was possibly the best I saw all year. I loved it because it was so beautiful. There was also the use of colors. I love whenever filmmakers bother to use colors and the meanings it represents...especially you put Mason, one of the worst characters, in a white outfit that would suggest innocence and she's anything but so the color choice enhances how wrong things are from what they should be. The sets were also perfect. I felt like we were actually there instead of a CGI wonderland or a set they just came up with.
The pacing was great without any slow parts or parts that seemed unnecessary. Everything was needed for what was to come. All the characters were allowed to show a range of emotion. I loved all the characters, even the awful ones and that's not a small feat. So many films have wonderful actors in subpar parts or characters that don't give you enough motivation to care what happens to them. The last Transformers film had a character that was written to be a good guy but he was so annoying that I cheered when he died.
I enjoyed the violence. At the same time, it was supposed to be a bit much in order to get the viewer uncomfortable and make them think.
It was a film designed for thinking in addition to the plot which is rare in films especially action films. The train is a metaphor for modern society and especially capitalism. Then, there's the question of: if those problems are present in our current society, how do we fix it? In the film, they come to the conclusion that only the young can truly change the world but there were also all those brainwashed children in class so...
I agree that despite its length, I wanted more. I was actually disappointed about the graphic novels lacking the movie characters because I wanted to know more about them. My mom was a little annoyed about the ending because she assumed the polar bear would eat them. Either way made sense to me, but I did love ending it with the polar bear when it was the polar bear's plight that pushed for the cure to global warming at the beginning of the film.
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First of all, the story was very original. It's an adaptation of a graphic novel but aside from the train, not much else is actually from it. I liked how different everything was about it.
There were also a number of twists and I love when I can't predict all the twists in a film...although before this film, I had already started not trusting any role that John Hurt plays just because it's John Hurt playing it.
This is another thing I really liked about it..the cast. I will admit that I already fangirled Chris Evans, Jamie Bell and Alison Pill but I wasn't familiar with Song Kang-ho and Go Ah-sung and they were both AWESOME!
The Cinematography was possibly the best I saw all year. I loved it because it was so beautiful. There was also the use of colors. I love whenever filmmakers bother to use colors and the meanings it represents...especially you put Mason, one of the worst characters, in a white outfit that would suggest innocence and she's anything but so the color choice enhances how wrong things are from what they should be. The sets were also perfect. I felt like we were actually there instead of a CGI wonderland or a set they just came up with.
The pacing was great without any slow parts or parts that seemed unnecessary. Everything was needed for what was to come. All the characters were allowed to show a range of emotion. I loved all the characters, even the awful ones and that's not a small feat. So many films have wonderful actors in subpar parts or characters that don't give you enough motivation to care what happens to them. The last Transformers film had a character that was written to be a good guy but he was so annoying that I cheered when he died.
I enjoyed the violence. At the same time, it was supposed to be a bit much in order to get the viewer uncomfortable and make them think.
It was a film designed for thinking in addition to the plot which is rare in films especially action films. The train is a metaphor for modern society and especially capitalism. Then, there's the question of: if those problems are present in our current society, how do we fix it? In the film, they come to the conclusion that only the young can truly change the world but there were also all those brainwashed children in class so...
I agree that despite its length, I wanted more. I was actually disappointed about the graphic novels lacking the movie characters because I wanted to know more about them. My mom was a little annoyed about the ending because she assumed the polar bear would eat them. Either way made sense to me, but I did love ending it with the polar bear when it was the polar bear's plight that pushed for the cure to global warming at the beginning of the film.