Best director Oscars winner BongJoonHo's new series Snowpiercer has a cast of big stars — led by JenniferConnelly and DaveedDiggs
expecting — apologies here — a trainwreck worthy of "off the rails" puns, disappointment will be yours as well.that is set to arrive on TNT is a mess, full of half-developed characters, illogical plot choices and incompletely realized social satire. But it's not awful. Thanks to solid production values, maybe a half-dozen amusingly pitched performances and several moments of giddy lunacy,doesn't find that rhythm immediately.
That means going to the train's tail, an overcrowded ghetto of impoverished non-paying riders perpetually on the verge of revolution. Andre Layton is one of the more vocal leaders for the unwashed masses, who are desperate and prone to cannibalism. Layton is a former homicide detective, the only person with those qualifications on the train. Can he solve the penis-hacking murder and restore order? Would he even want to? Do we really care?adapters decided to use this banal hook.
They're also a bore. On every level. If Layton is a particularly clever investigator, Manson and his writers haven't figured out how to capture his intelligence, so Diggs is left alternating between waves of incredulity and misery. Connelly, meanwhile, has only waves of wan exhaustion to play, and we're presented with dozens of interchangeable characters but actually introduced meaningfully to only a handful.
remembers that the reason the Bong Joon Ho film works as well as it does is because it borders on hilarious at points. I don't think Manson and company have anything sophisticated to say about class, either in contemporary America or in this extreme dystopic future, nor do I think the scripts are usually very funny.
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