The first film, Train To Busan, was good & well made & exciting & thrilling right up until its stupid ending!!!
But with Peninsula we get much better characters & a much more exciting playground with the destroyed apocalyptic Peninsula land.
The over-dramatic ending ruined the movie for me. The father didn't need to die & really could've survived easily & that's what made that ending way too contrived for emotional effect. Just like the stupid ending of A Quiet Place, both movies ruined by a fathers stupidity.
Peninsula is such a better movie though all round.
Except for the over dramatic near ending scene with the cool Snake Pliskin type hero played by Gang-Dong Won & the heroic mother, that scene went on way too long, again for emotional effect, & becomes very corny & cheesy. But that's my only real complaint with this much superior sequel.
Set years later after the zombie outbreak of the first film we get a quarantined island Peninsula that's been left to rot with thousands of zombies still there.
Also everything was left as it was so that means there's big money there in trucks & that's what this flick is an adrenaline pumping zombie heist action thriller. Zack Snyder copied this films idea with his terrible Army of the Dead.
The main guy Seung played by Gang-Dong Won is a Snake Plisskin type who has lost his family at the beginning of the film on an infected boat & now is a loner without a cause. He is pulled in with a small crew of thieves to sneak onto the quarantined Peninsula & steal the trucks full of money.
But of course nothing goes to plan & we get a kick-ass action-packed thrilling & exciting survival Thriller as the Korean film goes full on Mad Max & Escape from New & Dawn of the Dead & I Am Legend & so on. The Destroyed city of Peninsula is created perfectly, really the fx & production design is excellent.
We get other survivors in the zombie filled city with mental soldiers & a nice family that has adapted to survive the Apocalypse. The little family are great with a war veteran old man & his tough no-nonsense daughter & her two girls, a brilliant driver of a teenage daughter & a super smart & funny little girl with custom made zombie distracting remote control cars. There's lots of fun in this ferocious zombie flick & so much glorious action & blood soaked violence. There's an awesome prison games sequence in an abandoned mall with human being hunted for sport by mutated zombies for the crazy soldiers enjoyment.
There's a vibe of Day of the Dead with the mental soldiers that are as dangerous as the zombies themselves.
There's ferociously fast car chases similar to Mad Max Fury Road & such a cool hero of this adventure that fights & handles guns like Chris Hemsworth in the Extraction films. The action is gritty & fast paced with so much shooting & fighting it's an action gem. Think a Korean mix of Escape from New York, Mad Max & Day of the Dead, that's kinda what Peninsula is & it delivers.
I loved Peninsula & it should be an action cult classic in the future.
But with Peninsula we get much better characters & a much more exciting playground with the destroyed apocalyptic Peninsula land.
The over-dramatic ending ruined the movie for me. The father didn't need to die & really could've survived easily & that's what made that ending way too contrived for emotional effect. Just like the stupid ending of A Quiet Place, both movies ruined by a fathers stupidity.
Peninsula is such a better movie though all round.
Except for the over dramatic near ending scene with the cool Snake Pliskin type hero played by Gang-Dong Won & the heroic mother, that scene went on way too long, again for emotional effect, & becomes very corny & cheesy. But that's my only real complaint with this much superior sequel.
Set years later after the zombie outbreak of the first film we get a quarantined island Peninsula that's been left to rot with thousands of zombies still there.
Also everything was left as it was so that means there's big money there in trucks & that's what this flick is an adrenaline pumping zombie heist action thriller. Zack Snyder copied this films idea with his terrible Army of the Dead.
The main guy Seung played by Gang-Dong Won is a Snake Plisskin type who has lost his family at the beginning of the film on an infected boat & now is a loner without a cause. He is pulled in with a small crew of thieves to sneak onto the quarantined Peninsula & steal the trucks full of money.
But of course nothing goes to plan & we get a kick-ass action-packed thrilling & exciting survival Thriller as the Korean film goes full on Mad Max & Escape from New & Dawn of the Dead & I Am Legend & so on. The Destroyed city of Peninsula is created perfectly, really the fx & production design is excellent.
We get other survivors in the zombie filled city with mental soldiers & a nice family that has adapted to survive the Apocalypse. The little family are great with a war veteran old man & his tough no-nonsense daughter & her two girls, a brilliant driver of a teenage daughter & a super smart & funny little girl with custom made zombie distracting remote control cars. There's lots of fun in this ferocious zombie flick & so much glorious action & blood soaked violence. There's an awesome prison games sequence in an abandoned mall with human being hunted for sport by mutated zombies for the crazy soldiers enjoyment.
There's a vibe of Day of the Dead with the mental soldiers that are as dangerous as the zombies themselves.
There's ferociously fast car chases similar to Mad Max Fury Road & such a cool hero of this adventure that fights & handles guns like Chris Hemsworth in the Extraction films. The action is gritty & fast paced with so much shooting & fighting it's an action gem. Think a Korean mix of Escape from New York, Mad Max & Day of the Dead, that's kinda what Peninsula is & it delivers.
I loved Peninsula & it should be an action cult classic in the future.
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