Fans of The Walking Dead will see a lot of similar material here: the zombies are not the real villains but the people around you and how they react.
However, this is put together as a claustrophobic and effective thriller with a very human and emotional core, so it feels very fresh with characters you are really rooting for.
Without getting spoilery, it's satisfying to see the characters' choices really affect them, and to see the continual lesson of empathy carry throughout the movie. More like this please!
A good zombie movie on its own and a great zombie movie considering it came out in 2016, after and amidst so many terrible ones. It's not groundbreaking, but it is fresh and entertaining and it has great zombies, a good emotional subplot and a nice moral theme throughout.
It seems that the prime factor that sinks a zombie film is the quality of the zombies themselves. Despite not being a major budget film (at least I don't think it is) the zombie design is fantastic and very unnerving. Particularly the rather gruesome neck-snapping motions, very nuts. It's not terribly acted and actually manages to make you feel something for the characters involved. Director Sang-ho seems to be a fan of George Romero and the ending scene feels like a direct homage to the final scene of Night of the Living Dead, albeit with a different outcome.
I had to go to the very bottom to find the comment I agree the most with. What's great about Train to Busan? The zombies. They are incredibly well-made and realistic. Probably the best I've seen from the genre.
Everything else is generic or sub-par. I lost my interest halfway through. The script was just so disappointing,
and it dragged on and on. Would recommend watching a few scenes for the zombies, but not the entire movie, honestly.
Train to Busan is the Snowpiercer of zombie flicks, and while I'm not generally partial to the zombie genre, Korean cinema provides just enough of a spin on old formulas to make it appealing. Indeed, despite the zombie mayhem, the film has a sensitive core about an absentee father and his young daughter, and thematically underscores their interrupted connection with questions of responsibility... for the plague, for others in times of crisis, and through a pregnant couple whose daughter is not yet born. As a horror flick, it is claustrophobic, taking place almost entirely aboard a train (with side-quests in train stations and yards), the characters trying to survive by figuring out the rules, and so on. It's a real nailbiter, and I found my heart rate increasing through the last two acts. Visually, it looks great, none of the obvious CGI you expect from squirming masses of attacking zombies, and despite the subject matter, isn't gore-porn. Two severed thumbs up!
The older lady opened the door because she was really depressed when she got seperated from her sister. Then they almost got reunited, but her sister got killed because the people wouldn't let her in on time. The older lady was depressed again, saw her sister behind the glass as a zombie. Wanted to thank her for everything, not thinking straight and opening the door (it was a selffish act, but the people were selffish when they wouldn't let the healthy people inside, otherwise the sisters would've been reunited)!
The hand in the zombie's mouth: he was trying to hold back the zombie from his daughter and the pregnant lady. Maybe not the best tactic, because he got infected, but IT was a stressful situation.
But there were some more strange moments: like the opening of the train door with the zombies inside, while you can see them through the glass. Although now I understand. People were panicking and in such stressful situations you do stupid stuff.
I really did like the movie, although I really don't like zombieflicks. I was rooting for the main characters to survive. That's why its a good movie with moving and like-able characters.
And the message of the movie is: help eachother! Not only yourself.
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ryano1076
One of the better zombie films I've seen. Action-packed, suspenseful, and a great ending.Zeozk_wk
One of the best zombie movies series that i have ever watched. Did not disappoint me at alldr love
Amazing zombie film. 8,5/10Andrewski
Fans of The Walking Dead will see a lot of similar material here: the zombies are not the real villains but the people around you and how they react.However, this is put together as a claustrophobic and effective thriller with a very human and emotional core, so it feels very fresh with characters you are really rooting for.
Without getting spoilery, it's satisfying to see the characters' choices really affect them, and to see the continual lesson of empathy carry throughout the movie. More like this please!
Windill
Too many annoying scenes where characters don't react as real people would.The good point is Ma Dong-Seok: he's really fun to watch.
crazy_bitch
A good zombie movie on its own and a great zombie movie considering it came out in 2016, after and amidst so many terrible ones. It's not groundbreaking, but it is fresh and entertaining and it has great zombies, a good emotional subplot and a nice moral theme throughout.DisneyStitch
It seems that the prime factor that sinks a zombie film is the quality of the zombies themselves. Despite not being a major budget film (at least I don't think it is) the zombie design is fantastic and very unnerving. Particularly the rather gruesome neck-snapping motions, very nuts. It's not terribly acted and actually manages to make you feel something for the characters involved. Director Sang-ho seems to be a fan of George Romero and the ending scene feels like a direct homage to the final scene of Night of the Living Dead, albeit with a different outcome.Monk1
Fantastic movie! Amazing performance by Gong Yoo! I recommend Train to Busan for anyone who loves zombie movies.thekure23
I had to go to the very bottom to find the comment I agree the most with. What's great about Train to Busan? The zombies. They are incredibly well-made and realistic. Probably the best I've seen from the genre.Everything else is generic or sub-par. I lost my interest halfway through. The script was just so disappointing,
and it dragged on and on. Would recommend watching a few scenes for the zombies, but not the entire movie, honestly.
peterskb45
Train to Busan is the movie that World War Z wanted to be.frankqb
A well made zombie movie about class warfare in Korea. Very well made but the narrative thrust is dissolvedAres Capeta
Worst birthday ever.Siskoid
Train to Busan is the Snowpiercer of zombie flicks, and while I'm not generally partial to the zombie genre, Korean cinema provides just enough of a spin on old formulas to make it appealing. Indeed, despite the zombie mayhem, the film has a sensitive core about an absentee father and his young daughter, and thematically underscores their interrupted connection with questions of responsibility... for the plague, for others in times of crisis, and through a pregnant couple whose daughter is not yet born. As a horror flick, it is claustrophobic, taking place almost entirely aboard a train (with side-quests in train stations and yards), the characters trying to survive by figuring out the rules, and so on. It's a real nailbiter, and I found my heart rate increasing through the last two acts. Visually, it looks great, none of the obvious CGI you expect from squirming masses of attacking zombies, and despite the subject matter, isn't gore-porn. Two severed thumbs up!Videl
@ Rasheru: I can answer the questions you have!The hand in the zombie's mouth: he was trying to hold back the zombie from his daughter and the pregnant lady. Maybe not the best tactic, because he got infected, but IT was a stressful situation.
But there were some more strange moments: like the opening of the train door with the zombies inside, while you can see them through the glass. Although now I understand. People were panicking and in such stressful situations you do stupid stuff.
I really did like the movie, although I really don't like zombieflicks. I was rooting for the main characters to survive. That's why its a good movie with moving and like-able characters.
And the message of the movie is: help eachother! Not only yourself.
MonsieurBlutbad
Pretty generic, boring and goreless Zombie movie, but it takes place in a train and thats appearantly enough for some to call it original.Showing items 1 – 15 of 28