Train To Busan (부산행) | South Korean Live-Action Zombie Thriller

[AlexIlDottore]

Originally Posted by Creasy47

Korean horror is 'so-so'? You gotta watch "I Saw The Devil."

Can't wait to own 'Train to Busan' on blu-ray.

And Goksung

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by X400

i meant teaching hollywood/uk a thing or two about the zombie genre

considering hollywood/uk having been barfing out zombie movie attempts for ages now

i dont recall any korean zombie films, their horrors have been soso tho

You haven't seen Girl With All The Gifts then.

[X400]

Originally Posted by Creasy47

Korean horror is 'so-so'? You gotta watch "I Saw The Devil."

Can't wait to own 'Train to Busan' on blu-ray.

Not a horror imo :/ but hey they're not all bad or great overall just find em soso hehe

Originally Posted by AlexIlDottore

And Goksung

Meh

Originally Posted by Foggy

You haven't seen Girl With All The Gifts then.

No I haven't even heard of it, so, thanks

[Wernski]

Saw this and thought it was just alright; not sure why it's getting all the buzz it's been getting. It's got some production values, but is essentially just another zombie film like all the others, still borrowing most of its drama from the original Night Of the Living Dead. Some implausible action (they all crawled along the baggage racks without being noticed by the dozens of zombies right next to them, in like twenty seconds?) and overly ambitious CGI stuff didn't help. I was with it more in the first half, but it ran low on steam by the second half, and by the end I was saying, "just die already."

[AlexIlDottore]

Originally Posted by Wernski

Saw this and thought it was just alright; not sure why it's getting all the buzz it's been getting. It's got some production values, but is essentially just another zombie film like all the others, still borrowing most of its drama from the original Night Of the Living Dead. Some implausible action (they all crawled along the baggage racks without being noticed by the dozens of zombies right next to them, in like twenty seconds?) and overly ambitious CGI stuff didn't help. I was with it more in the first half, but it ran low on steam by the second half, and by the end I was saying, "just die already."

I thought it was pretty good, until the end on the train,

[Show spoiler] when the old rich guy was a zombie train driver. The hero had a chance to push the zombie off the train (you can even see when the old guy has almost completely turned, and he's outside of the train engine with the hero, there's a gap in the guard rail). Instead of pushing him off, what did he do? He just said "you're already infected", hesitated and then struggled with the fully transformed zombie, which lead to him being bitten.

That ending was a farking joke that wrecked the film for me.

[Show spoiler]I love depressing endings, but hey, Korean Cinema! You can have a happy ending, and it doesn't have to be sucky! The unhappy ending here sucked due to how we got there.

[Member-275053]

Originally Posted by Wernski

Saw this and thought it was just alright; not sure why it's getting all the buzz it's been getting. It's got some production values, but is essentially just another zombie film like all the others, still borrowing most of its drama from the original Night Of the Living Dead. Some implausible action (they all crawled along the baggage racks without being noticed by the dozens of zombies right next to them, in like twenty seconds?) and overly ambitious CGI stuff didn't help. I was with it more in the first half, but it ran low on steam by the second half, and by the end I was saying, "just die already."

I think most of the buzz is centered around the fact that it is a Korean zombie film and Yeon Sang-ho's first live-action film.

[reaperx187]

I've heard mostly good review's and comments on this new zombie flick i'm hoping to catch it in the near future too!.

[MazeRunner]

Just finished. Great film. Wish they'd announce an American blu-ray release date already.

[Shingster]

It really is very good indeed: screw zombies, it's one of the best action films of the year full-stop! You can't beat a good train-based action thriller and this combines that rather limited sub-genre with the zombie sub-genre with real aplomb. It has a great combination of escalating tension, fun characters who you actually care about, and zombies who have physiological limitations that allow for tense setpieces and make it believable (to an extent) that our heroes can deal with them. How often do we sit through zombie films where the zombies seem capable of hunting down the slightest hint of human activity? No zombie ninjas in this flick! Yes the final act is horribly contrived and extremely melodramatic, but it didn't ruin what came before really - and how the hell do you end a zombie flick these days anyway? Just about every scenario has played out. Pisses all over Snowpiercer, and I quite liked that!

One thing that really grabbed me about this film: Momentum. For years I've seen horrors with fast moving zombies who, despite being mostly brainless, always seem to gracefully control heir movement and run in crowds in a manner that could be described as organised chaos. In this the zombies just charge full speed ahead, crashing and clamouring over each other in really satisfying waves of uncontrolled momentum. Really made for an interesting dynamic in how they operated imo.

Oh and I can't believe my local cinema actually showed this! Think it's the first Korean film I've managed to catch at the cinema. Screening was surprisingly busy as well, might be because they were only screening it for one week and this was the final showing! I think they've lost some money not showing it for a fortnight tbh as it was one of the busiest "end of week" screenings I've been to all year. Can't believe the general audience haven't grown tired of zombies yet!