Comments: There's the re-animating deer near the beginning; the first few overflowing zombie pile-ups; several great contortion moves; a fantastic fiery Locomotive crash; hilariously great zombie herd tailgate surfing. What am I missing? That's about three minutes of quality movie. A Movie Trailer. And like a movie trailer it's a terrible representation of the film overall--where the other 99% is a T-bomb. The pacing of the film is defecating: Zombies run into a door that's being closed; everyone takes a dump. Lather rinse repeat. The pacing is bad because the writing and acting are awful. "But you're not supposed to have writing and acting in a zombie movie!" That's right. So why shove it in our faces? Jung Yu-Mi gets a pass, and I liked the little girl. Ma Dong-Seok didn't embarrass himself too much because he's strong enough to overcome what he was given. Every line of dialog in the film is bad. Gong Yoo is a twerpy faux-stud who can't act his way out of a genre film, Korean or otherwise. I hope to never watch another film with his over-moisturized face.
I had high hopes for this. The three minutes of quality film are fantastic. End of story. Well, actually I like the Korean thing of killing everyone, although I'm not saying if the kid dies or not (like the one in The Host did). Korea might be inching toward doing Hollywood better than Hollywood, but it's still crap. I, and I can't believe I'm saying this, enjoyed The Happening (2008) more than this. Heck, I enjoyed a Woody Harrelson movie more than this.
Summary: Sok-woo and his daughter Soo-ahn are boarding the KTX, a fast train that shall bring them from Seoul to Busan. But right at the moment of their departure, the train station is overrun by zombies which kill the train driver and several others. While the KTX is shooting driver-less to Busan, the passengers have to fight for their naked lives against the zombies.
Busanhaeng
2016
South Korea
Train to Busan
