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I'm only 10 years late to this party, and honestly I meant to watch it a long time ago when people mentioned it but forgot at some point
Anyways, Train to Busan is a 2016 South Korean zombie movie which gained a lot of attention and word of mouth a decade ago. There isn't that much I should say about it besides it has a fantastic and likeable cast of main characters, a breathless pace which wastes very little time before getting to the zombie apocalypse, and despite the constant fleeing from and getting eaten by hordes of fast moving zombies which are like the 28 Days Later or World War Z zombies there is enough time to fit in character development so you care about the small group of survivors by the end. As the name implies, most of the film occurs aboard a KTX high speed rail train that leaves Seoul at the start of the film, though a few scenes do occur while not on the train. Despite only having a budget of US$8.5 million it manages to fit in a huge number of extras in key scenes and use a bit of CGI where appropriate and doesn't look cheaply made at all, a testament to how much less expensive it is to make movies in East Asia compared to Hollywood
I would say it's probably the best zombie flick I've seen in many years, and possibly one of the best ever films made in the genre. It deserves every award it eventually got. There's also a sequel made in 2020 set in the same universe but occurs 4 years later, named Peninsula. And this year a second sequel is due to be released, named Colony. Both sequels are not directly connected with Train to Busan. I'll need to check out Peninsula ahead of the release of Colony even though people say it's not as good as Train to Busan was
Final Rating: 10/10
Anyways, Train to Busan is a 2016 South Korean zombie movie which gained a lot of attention and word of mouth a decade ago. There isn't that much I should say about it besides it has a fantastic and likeable cast of main characters, a breathless pace which wastes very little time before getting to the zombie apocalypse, and despite the constant fleeing from and getting eaten by hordes of fast moving zombies which are like the 28 Days Later or World War Z zombies there is enough time to fit in character development so you care about the small group of survivors by the end. As the name implies, most of the film occurs aboard a KTX high speed rail train that leaves Seoul at the start of the film, though a few scenes do occur while not on the train. Despite only having a budget of US$8.5 million it manages to fit in a huge number of extras in key scenes and use a bit of CGI where appropriate and doesn't look cheaply made at all, a testament to how much less expensive it is to make movies in East Asia compared to Hollywood
I would say it's probably the best zombie flick I've seen in many years, and possibly one of the best ever films made in the genre. It deserves every award it eventually got. There's also a sequel made in 2020 set in the same universe but occurs 4 years later, named Peninsula. And this year a second sequel is due to be released, named Colony. Both sequels are not directly connected with Train to Busan. I'll need to check out Peninsula ahead of the release of Colony even though people say it's not as good as Train to Busan was
Final Rating: 10/10
