Haleyun

This isn't a worthy sequel to Train to Busan but it is entertaining, for the most part, on its own. This film went the whacky route, probably due to the success of zombie shows and video games. The apocalyptic angle, with depraved survivalists, st Ms from the Walking Dead while the circus death games mimics TWD and the "humor" of Dead Island or Dead by Daylight. There are no villainous women. Being in the same environment, the three females are intelligent, better fighters, and thoughtful, immensely skilled in driving, robotics, weaponry, and forgiveness. So many focused scenes of mom or daughter straight man-handling the gear shift or the pedals. This also causes the stoic calmness to come off as a lack of personality in the female character. The men are either depraved wild dogs, cowardly, or mentally unstable. If they hold any driving or gun talent, it's partnered with psychoticness. So in the same exact settings, women thrive while men regress. Should we steer clear of modern day South Korea with such a mentality? To be fair, the main male can fight but his backstory is less than stellar on two occasions. I'd dare say the travesty is all the CGI used for the action and landscape.

"We are the ships, you are the river."

There's a moment here, of a taboo nature no doubt, that borders a fine line betweenthat of binding the devil's work through calling on God and that of sacrilege of using the Lord's Prayer during a questionable scene of forced intercourse. Who would have thought that pigeon and cow "matter" mixed with human "matter" would be so explosive? Well, those who know would, but still. It is a little tiring from each of the warring factions to state regularly "assume that I already know" or "don't worry how we know so much, we just do".