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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)
Quote: Train to Busan is a 2016 South Korean zombie apocalypse thriller film directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi and Ma Dong-seok.
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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Re: Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)
Train to Busan is a roller coaster train ride through the carnival house of horrors of post-zombie plague Korea. Crackingly well directed by first time live-action feature director Sang-ho Yeon. A satisfying example of the classic diverse group trying to make it through a disaster. Who will survive?!? *A*
(Note, I am not a zombie junkie, eg: haven't seen a single episode of Walking Dead. Train to Busan stands on it's own as a thriller that establishes it's own set of rules and then follows them.)
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Mon Aug 15, 2016 5:20 am |
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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36917
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Re: Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)
Its nothing re-inventive but a decent more-of-the-same zombie thriller. The only haunting scene was the one where the mother calls her son before being infected. The trapped inside train sequences were great edge-of-your-seat material, also good was the stop in mid-city and getting back to the train but then the final sequence comes in and the film just loses focus and its welcome. Its a blast for people who love zombie movies and a decent thriller overall.
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Tue Aug 16, 2016 1:25 am |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Re: Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)
A simple, almost humorous-sounding concept (zombies, on a train) bears fruit in this exhilarating South Korean genre film. Amid early, not-yet-connected signs of crisis, a distracted father (Gong Yoo) and his daughter (Kim Su-an) board a morning train to Busan, the southeastern city where his estranged ex-wife and her mother lives. When a handful of passengers transform into flesh-devouring, dead-eyed creatures during the journey, a claustrophobic fight for survival is set in motion. Perfectly paced and elegantly fusing action, fear, humor, and pathos, Train to Busan never loosens its nerve-jangling grip on the viewer and includes more than one truly spectacular set piece, including a Snowpiercer- and Oldboy-evoking fight through several zombie-infested train cars.
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Dil
Forum General
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:48 pm Posts: 8942 Location: Houston, Texas
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Re: Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)
I am sick to death of zombie movies, but this was a pretty awesome flick. I liked it a lot more than Snowpiercer and I really hope Hollywood doesn't decide to remake it. I wouldn't be surprised if they did though considering for them an original idea is hard to come by these days, especially with zombies being so popular now.
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Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:27 am |
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_axiom
The Wall
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:50 am Posts: 16163 Location: Croatia
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Re: Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)
***1/2 / ***** (B-)
Very fun (these Koreans really like a dose of humor with their horror, don't they?) zombie movie. It sets up the little zombie rules it has very early on and doesn't cheat after (like so many zombie movies do). Being a pure action/suspense movie the characters don't get a rather deep portrayal, but they're all believable and you get to root for them. The only slightly disappointing thing is that all the characters seem like Hollywood ready-made. Hardly much Korean twist to them. Luckily the ending doesn't get the usual Hollywood treatment. Although predictable, the happy/sad ending is very satisfying and rewarding.
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Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:47 pm |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 23695 Location: Classified
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Re: Train to Busan (Busanhaeng)
This was fantastic. The zombie carnage is unmatched. Watching the zombies pile against the windows and then crash in dozens at a time really showed the scale of the outbreak so vividly, like what World War Z wanted to do with its zombies climb the wall scene. This really feels like it would have a place in the book World War Z rather than the movie though, as its just as much about how extraordinary events bring out the best and worst of people.
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