![]() Jung-seok’s been wrestling with his guilt all these years - although, to be fair, characters made far more difficult judgment calls every five minutes in “Train to Busan.” That movie had a kind of simple-minded but straightforward morality that tended to work itself out, as those who made tough sacrifices were treated as heroes, while greedy and self-interested parties met gruesome fates. That makes “Peninsula” much more difficult for regular audiences to identify with, putting the pressure on Yeon to invent set-pieces that justify what seems like a suicide mission.Īmong the team members, Jung-seok (Gang Dong-won) emerges as the most compelling, seen at the outset trying to escape the initial outbreak, a challenge that called for a tough decision to leave a family stranded along the road. There’s still the risk that one of the four could get bitten, although now, instead of watching innocent people flee for survival, the story involves a group of vaguely sketched characters recklessly putting themselves in danger - in horror-movie terms, the equivalent of dead-meat coeds venturing upstairs when we know there’s a serial killer lying in wait. But it seems a waste to make a zombie movie, only to reduce the lumbering brain-eaters to faceless machine-gun fodder, or roadkill splattered against the windshield of speeding SUVs. Huge chunks of the movie are dedicated to bonkers cross-city chase scenes that feel like the CG equivalent of vintage “Speed Racer” sequences, as digitally rendered vehicles drift along frictionless roads. It’s not that the zombies aren’t a threat (there’s a seemingly infinite supply of them lurking out there), but they’re practically incidental in a sequel that strives for more of a “Mad Max” feel, pitting these four desperadoes against the heavily armed humans who now run Incheon. A rowdy band of mercenaries known as Unit 361 roam the city in packs, scavenging for food and rounding up stragglers, whom they force to compete in cruel arena games. The challenge falls to four Korean refugees, tired of being treated like second-class citizens in nearby Hong Kong, and convinced that they can retrieve the loot under the cover of darkness - since zombies are believed to be “blind at night.” To say that the small squad has vastly underestimated the difficulty of the mission would be an understatement, although the zombies aren’t nearly as menacing as the still-uninfected humans who’ve managed to evade them all this time. currency, just waiting for someone courageous enough to come back and recover it. Somewhere in the zombie-infested city sits a truck loaded with $20 million in U.S. In the previous films, Yeon wreaked devastation on Busan and Seoul, and here he turns his attention to the port city of Incheon, now a smoldering wasteland, its skyscrapers dark and bridges lying broken like giant carcasses in an elephant graveyard. More info about Tickets, please click here.Apart from a smattering of survivors, South Korea has been abandoned, its once-ultra-modern mega-cities reduced to apocalyptic ruins. Yeon Sang Ho known for directing a animated film such as The King of Pigs, The Window, The Fake, and his latest animated film is in 2016 called Seoul Station. ![]() or so everyone hopes. The film broke all box office records in major cities in Asia when it was first released in 2016.Ĭlick here to read the Full Review from, May 13, 2016ĭirector's Bio: Yeon Sang-Ho directed few short films as well Megalomania of D in 1997, followed by D-Day in 2000 and The Hell in 2003, then set up his own production house Studio Dadashow in 2004. Synopsis : Train To Busan is a harrowing zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has managed to hold off the zombie hordes. ![]() | In Korean with English subtitles | Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller ![]() ![]() Starring: Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Yu-mi Jung Wednesday, April 19th 7:00 PM AMC River East 21 (322 E. ![]()
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