Dernier train pour Busan

Train to Busan was a treat.

A look into Selfishness vs Selflessness and Individual vs The Collective.

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a foreign film this much. The cinematography is excellent, the story is original, and I will definitely be keeping an eye on Sang-ho Yeon's future projects.

This has to be one of the finest zombie and horror films in general I have ever seen. Extremely thrilling and captivating from start to finish. Everything in this film has done with passion and care. From the characters and heartbreaking moments they go through, visceral zombie attacks, acting and camera work down to dialogue. Everything works great. This is what World War Z should and could have been. Sure the plot of the film is not original, because yet again we are shown the struggle and survival of people during zombie pandemic, but the way the story is approached and executed is beyond most of the average mainstream horror movies we get these days. If you are a fan of zombie films you will definitely enjoy this horror gem.

The investment manager Seok Woo (Yoo Gong) is a divorced man that lives in Seoul, with his daughter a Soo-an (Soo-an Kim) and his mother. Seok Woo is a selfish man and neglects Soo-an that misses her mother that lives in Busan. On Soo-an's birthday, she asks to visit her mother and Seok Woo travels with her with the intention of returning after lunch. They board the fast train KTX and a sick woman also boards another wagon. During the journey, the woman attacks a train staff and soon all the passenger in the wagon are attacked turning into zombies. Soon Seok Woo realizes that there is a zombie outbreak in South Korea and together with the passenger Sang Hwa (Dong-seok Ma), who is traveling with his pregnant wife Sung Gyeong (Yu-mi Jeong), they isolate the safe front wagons from the infected ones. Along their journey, the non-infected passengers have to fight the zombies and the selfishness of the human being.

"Busanhaeng", a.k.a. "Train to Busan", is one of the best zombie films ever made. The story is original and there is deep character development, which is not usual in horror movies, showing the different behavior of the human being in a stressful situation depending on his or her character (or lack of). The direction is amazing and the action scenes are fantastic. The screenplay is melodramatic but also attractive; the beautiful cinematography and special effects and make-up are highlighted by perfect edition. The cast has good performance but the girl Soo-an Kim is impressive and steals the show. We hope Hollywood industry does not destroy this little gem with the usual remake. My vote is eight.

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Top-notch Zombie movie includes hectic action , thrills , chills , gutsy scenes and loads of gore , regarding several passengers attempting to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan . It is a harrowing zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has managed to hold off the zombie hordes... or so everyone hopes . This thrilling film results to one of the highest earning horror movies of the last years , full of eerie scenes with zombies and moving events . It tells the story of the happenings that follow after a zombie apocalypse . While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan . As a divorced father, Seok-woo , along with his daughter Su-an, heads for Busan to meet her mother , then he discovers that the world has been taken over by zombies. Shortly after , the father and other passengers struggle to fend off the zombie hordes . It follows a group of survivors on a train , who travel in search of a safe and secure home. The movie goes on to explore the challenges of the passengers on a train and in a station overrun by zombies who take a toll on the survivors, taking on the greatest dangers to their continuing survival when the zombies roam surround . As the characters are changed by the constant exposure to death and some grow willing to do anything to survive. Escape from the zombies! Get on board to stay alive! Life-or-death survival begins

This excellent picture packs noisy action , chills , violence , lots of blood and gore , dealing with life-or-death survival in train bound to Busan . It's a solid film , a terror story plenty of suspense , restless horror, and in cinematographic style . It deals with a merciless fight for survival in which some survivors struggle to fend off the zombie hordes ; as well as competing with other passangers who are prepared to do whatever it takes to survive . The main premise is the following : A divorced daddy spares time with his daughter , as he offers to take her on the train to see her mother in Busan , as the train departs, an abnormal virus spreads from a girl who is infected, and people start to transform to zombies. Will Seok-woo and Su-an make it out alive? .The flesh-eating zombies appearance deliver the goods plenty of screams, shocks and tension . The horror moments are compactly made and fast moving . This movie is the sequel of his animated film Seoul Station, and both releasing in 2016, the movie gained a lot of attention from South Korea, and internationally, because he choose the genre that not a lot of South Korean director choose which is the zombie flick. The movie was screened at the Midnight Screening at Cannes Festival, the movie was rumored to be remake with by the Hollywood production . Train to Busan is the first South Korean movie that gained 10 millions theatergoers in South Korea, and the number is still counting. It achieved a big success thanks to the interesting plot and the Zombies are vey well carried out , excellent make-up and acting , in fact actors who played zombies had to go through zombie school to learn how to walk and move like zombies .

¨Train to Busan¨ has got several Awards and nominations such as : Nominated for a 2016 Blue Dragon Film Award in the Best New Director category , Won the Yu Hyun-mok Film Arts Award a the 2016 Buil Film Awards and Won the Best New Director Award at the 2017 Baeksang Arts Awards . The motion picture was magnificently made by director Yeon Sang-ho , being his debut feature . This filmmaker is very loved by Cannes thanks to his edgy animation. He is a good director, and a fine screen writer . At the beginning he made few short films , then set up his own production house Studio Dadashow in 2004. Yeon Sang Ho known for directing a animated film such as The King of Pigs, The Window, The Fake, and his latest animated film is in 2016 called Seoul Station. Yeon Sang-Ho sometimes created his movie based on his own personal life as well. For example the The King of Pigs, he said that he was inspired by his own life experience, and he cried during the writing time of the script, The Window is based on his life during his mandatory . Train to Busan rating : 8/10 . Above average movie . Well worth warching . The picture will appeal to Zombie-sub-genre fans .

We're leaving (leaving) on that Zombie Train to Busan (leaving on the undead train).

Use to seeing Korean horror films about ghost, but Zombies!? This was refreshing.

So this neglectful dad tries to make amends with his daughter by riding with her on the train (which she wanted to go by herself) to take her back to his ex-wife. Lucky for both of them as a zombie outbreak happens while their on the train. Now, their only hope for survival is to make it to the Busan stop.

You really can't go wrong with a Zombie movie. It's rare that I've have seen one that I did not like. Train to Busan is definitely a good one too. Its filled with interesting characters. Other than the father daughter team, the train is also occupied by a pregnant women and her Macho and humorous husband, a school girl and her baseball playing boyfriend and some homeless wonderer who saw the outbreak first hand, just to name a few.

The social commentary speaks on what you are made of as an individual and as a society with the best and the worse coming out of everyone during this crisis.

I loved how relentless and aggressive the Zombies were. More like 28 days later than Romero. The special effects do get a little cartoony with zombies that seem to come form nowhere piling over one another like poring cereal into a bowl or something, but it does give you that man, these guys are screwed feel. Train to Busan focus on the idea that the walking dead sense you through sight and sound. If they can not see you or hear you they have no way of knowing your living flesh is a foot away from their hunger. It made for some cleaver obstacles when a group of passengers have to maneuver through train cars filled with zombie passengers (Sounds like the next game in the Resident Evil franchise).

Also found it interesting that no zombies were shot in this picture. I don't know how Korean gun control laws work, but I can assume it's strict enough that the story would make no sense if someone on the train just happen to have one for zombie killing (unlike an American movie in which the unborn child having a gun would be fine so long as it moved along the story). Definitely a rarity in a Zombie picture and it worked.

It's Action packed, it's humorless, with incredible looking zombies and a cast of characters so lively you give a crap what happens to them in the end.

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