Peninsula

I’ve never seen a quarantine zone movie before where the military is evil and people act like they’re in Mad Max, I’ve never seen it done before I don’t even know what Mad Max is in reference too it’s that unknown to me. Train to Busan was a taut contained little story this is just whatever. I like to think what I’d do in these situations deluding myself into thinking I wouldn’t be the first to be eaten after rolling my ankle and screaming shrilly.

Over-the-top but fun. In a world where any second you could die a chewy death, there are too many cheesy slowmo embraces and staring. It might have been saying something about parental protection, and a loving homage to Mad Max / Tokyo Drift / John Wick. In the end it was just a decent action film. Best bit was the car-into-zombie splatting at high speed... quite satisfying I must say. But the did it too many times and it was too long.

Train To Busan 2: Beyond Jamsil Dome steals a lot of tricks from other less-than-brilliant sequels; more and dodgier CGI, more blather about geopolitical ramifications, more precocious kids, more evil soldiers, more endless car chases (is this movie just a 2-hour commercial for Kia?)... The one thing it really has in common with Train to Busan is the family melodrama, which is cut-and-paste and amped up to 11 but largely works if that's your thing.

As a member of the lumpen proletariat, I resent the suggestion that the only reason we want to take over post-apocalyptic cities is so we can invent new very dangerous sports.

A potpourri of references to American post-apoc action/horror films. In broad strokes it's Escape From New York In Korea With Zombies, with some The Walking Dead and Mad Max thrown in for good measure. Those distinctly Korean moments of high melodrama are still there (though at least one of the big ones felt pretty damn unearned this time around) but on the whole this came across disappointingly Hollywood.

The first one was already a reheated pistache of zombie and horror movie tropes, and this one is a second serving. If you're ok with seeing a well made, but unoriginal Korean zombie movie, then the second one won't really offend you. Just beware that cheesy ass tearjerker ending.

Frustratingly derivative Busan follow-up scraps the claustrophobic confines and relentless pacing of the original, delivering a hodge podge of elements of all 4 MAD MAX movies (we even get a Thunderdome!) mixed with dreary, repetitive scenes of hordes of zombies throwing themselves apparently fruitlessly in front of speeding vehicles - if they're this easy to obliterate, how did they manage to take over the city? Inexplicable how Sang-ho dropped the considerably accomplished ball of Part 1.

Zombie Drift! Not an actual sequel, but an urban Mad Max-esque post-apocalypse where Korea is mostly isolated from the world, with people living there among zombies and trying to scavenge stuff -- paramilitaries and civillians. Pretty by the numbers stuff, except for the arena scenes (I liked them very much), mixing John Wick heavy fire with Fast and Furious otherwordly driving -- of course, that all filled with well-known Korean melodrama and some welcoming weirdness.

Disastrous follow up.

Interesting mix of video game and film. A poor cash in on the success of Train to Busan.

the first film was exceptional compared within zombie flicks. but this is not related to it. this just exploits former's name & critical success as a sequel. the ending is exceptionally awful. Commercial ads (car & beverages) are disgusting just like cgi's. terrible.

Just why. It starts out so good and kind of creepy (especially with the flash of zombies caught up in the stairway) and then it veers away from the zombies vs. people to people vs. people and completely loses the plot. I was just not interested in the characters and the action that followed held no suspense to it. I am a big fan of good car chases and there are plenty of driving scenes in this movie, but the laws of physics are completely forgotten in the wake of using CGI for every bit.

I know that sequels have a bad track record, but this is a truly disappointing follow up to 'Train to Busan'. All the elements that make the first film a success are absent here, while it retains the worst elements of the original. It's more like a video game than a proper film, and even if we grant that it is a film, it's just a poor 'Escape from New York'/'Escape from L.A.' knock off.

This sequel/spin-off to the best zombie movie ever made didn't need to exist. That said, it's still better than most western action/horror flicks.

This fails on the back of expectations after its predecessor set such a high benchmark. It is just now a different movie and feels more like a by-the-numbers zombie action film. It certainly lacks the originality that the original had, because of that, it amount to nothing special.

The Fast & The Fury Road: Escape from Incheon Drift. This wanted to be so many other movies and completely failed. I didn't enjoy the silly climactic action sequence and the ending is a cheesy dragged out mess.

I remember almost nothing about this movie.

This ended up being a fun movie once I could get over the fact that this felt and looked like a PS3 game.

Peninsula is a big dramatical shift from Train to Busan. I appreciate it's attempts at building new characters despite the success of the original. However, there isn't a whole lot to really take from anything in this movie. It plays on the evil military trope that a lot of zombies movies are victim of. Their characters are subject of cruelty rather than something emotionally investable. I feel like somewhere along the writing of the screenplay, they kinda just lost what made the original.

Kore Mad-Max. Post apokaliptik zombi filmi. İlk filmde, kurtulan karakterlerimiz, 2. filmde Güney Kore'de 1 kamyon dolusu parayı çıkarmaya çalışıyorlar. Güney Kore eskisi gibi değildir. İyi aksiyon sahnelerin olduğu, sürükleyici 1 film. Filmin sonunda, ajitasyon kaçış sahnesi var. İşin içinde para varsa zombi mombi tanımam.

Doesn't hold a candle to Train to Busan, which this is really just a sequel to in name only. Weirdly enough, most of the action this time around is vehicle-based, and the vehicles are all bad CGI, total buzzkill. Not that Train to Busan had a super original story, but Peninsula is nothing more than a big bundle of cliches. It doesn't do anything new and it doesn't do anything particularly well.

I think in some scanes, time is freezing for the zombies because if it's not, the end would be so much different and much more darker hahahaha

Four years after the outbreak of the zombie virus, the world is still overrun by the undead. This time the focus is on the Korean peninsula. Former soldier Jung-seok, who managed to escape the island, is assigned the task of returning. There he comes into contact with some survivors.

26.12.20(+)

I don't get the point of this movie.. Why? Apart from the complete bullshit 3rd act, it was a decently directed action flick, but that 3rd act oh man.. What a fall from grace.. So much 'homage' to Mad Max, but just no point.. Why tell this story, when you could do so many others.. Just sad after the first one.

Presented as the sequel to the great Train to Busan, this is quite the disappointment. Completely average zombie movie, unnecessarily long, the story makes little to no sense (4 years later and the zombies are still there??), and relies too much in CGI.

Not the greatest of sequels, but it certainly served its purpose for a husband & wife zombie night!

It's fun and crazy and has a load of unbelievable circumstances but then its a zombie film right?

This sequel to "Train to Busan" does not really come close to the quality of that film, but admirably walks it's own crazy path. It's pretty much a blend of zombie film, "Escape from New York", "Baby Driver" and "Mad Max: Fury Road". Each of it's elements is notably a cheap copy of the original, and it relies too much on slightly shoddy CGI, but it's a really enjoyable gonzo mix that shamelessly panders to the audience in the best way one can.

Pros: interesting setting with a few interesting characters. Cons: really bad script and an ending that feels like there was a heated discussion on how it should end, and in the end they decided to mix the happy/sad ending together. + I never knew Korean cars were that durable.