March 29, 2017

Train to Busan


Oh hell yeah. Guys, see this movie. It recently got to Netflix and it's zombies on a high speed train in Korea.

Yes, I know. Zombies. Ugh. What is this, 2012? But no, really. This was very good! This was zombies done right - they're fast as hell, the infection spreads fast as hell, and by containing most of the action in a train the whole thing plays out like a video game, a nice mix of violence and stealthiness - can our ragtag group of survivors advance, car by car, to reconvene with one another? Will their crazy death train ever make it to Busan? Plenty of tropes here - the single father, the little girl, the pregnant lady, the noble strongman, the high school sweethearts, the timid employees, the homeless man, the old ladies, the rich top-notch asshole who literally throws other people into the paths of the zombies to save his own skin. There's even a high school baseball team on board, which means everyone's got a baseball bat, and not for no reason. Smart! This doesn't reinvent a thing, but it's as good an execution of "zombies! ahh!" as I've ever seen.

Snakes on a Plane was dumb as hell, but it kind of worked, right? This works in the same ways, but without the ridiculous premise. Fair warning: subtitles. But your eyes will be on the screen anyway.

Really though, see this. It was a ton of fun.

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