by Kim Filchak, writer/reviewer

I have been waiting for months for this movie, hoping and praying that it would be everything I want… No wait, NEED it to be. I have been caught up in this story ever since I first discovered this movie last year while wandering aimlessly around IMDB one slow afternoon because I just could not sit through another Law and Order: SVU marathon (Sorry Stabler!). Directed by a fan favorite best known for a cult classic and staring Chris Evans and his piercing blue eyes, this comic book movie is going to be a serious game changer. The movie? Snowpiercer. And it’s finally here. Well…almost.

Based on the graphic novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette, and Benjamin Legrand and directed by Bong Joon-ho, who is best known for The Host (No, not the one based on the book by Stephanie Meyer, the other one. The awesome one about a family fighting a sewer monster) it has some serious badass cred going on and from everything I have seen the lush visuals are going to be gorgeous. And the cast? Amazing. Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, both Go Ah-sung and Song Kang-ho from The Host; every name attached to this movie makes me giddy.

Set in a future that has become an arctic wasteland due to a climatological disaster, all that is left of humanity is stuck on a train powered by a perpetual motion machine circling the globe. For 17 years. (What do you even pack for that? Wool socks and a machete?) In true dystopian style the haves ruthlessly exploit the have-nots and in the desperation/deprivation of the squalor in the cars at the back of the train an insurrection is born. Since Snowpiercer was released it has gotten amazing reviews from the international press and scored an 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. Seriously, this movie is going to rock.

It was released internationally in August last year but we in the states have had to wait as the filmmakers fought to keep Snowpiercer from being on receiving end of a full Blade Runner, cut to bits (20 minutes gone) and an added voice over. There was a time when it was doubtful that U.S. audience would ever see the film as it was meant to be seen, but thank Cthulhu a compromise was reached and Snowpiercer in all its uncut glory will be released in a slow rollout this summer.

We are finally getting the original cut of the film on June 27, 2014 and I cannot freaking wait. So here to our whet our appetites is the full extended international movie trailer.

Snowpiercer International Trailer (2013)