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‘Train To Busan’ Review: This Electric Korean Zombie Movie Goes Off The Rails

For almost 45 minutes, Yeon Sang-ho’s “Train to Busan” is on pace to become the best, most urgent zombie movie since “28 Days Later.” And then — at once both figuratively and literally — this broad Korean blockbuster derails in slow-motion, sliding off the tracks and bursting into a hot mess of generic moments and digital fire.

But oh, those first 45 minutes: they’re genre heaven (or the undead equivalent). Equal parts “Snowpiercer” and “World War Z,” the film introduces itself as the rare pastiche with enough personality to feel like something new.  A sequel of sorts to Yeon’s “Seoul Station,” which received limited festival play and never received U.S. distribution, “Train to Busan” unwraps its premise so elegantly that no prior knowledge is required to get swept along by its opening act.

Something is wrong in the verdant hills of Jinyang. A truck driver rattles his vehicle up to a military checkpoint, where he’s told that the area up ahead has been quarantined. He’s not buying it; the MERS outbreak that blitzed through the country in 2015 and likely inspired Yeon’s film hasn’t left much of an impression on him. So he drives on, eventually flattening a deer who runs into the middle of the road. “Such a shitty day,” he mutters. He has no idea — he’s already fled the scene by the time the roadkill twitches back to life and hops onto its feet.

Deeper in the quiet city, a dapper Disney dad named Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is too busy earning his reputation as a corporate bloodsucker to notice the brewing zombie apocalypse. While (too) many of his moral failings are left to the imagination, we know that the recently separated Seok-woo refers to his employees as lemmings, and doesn’t make time for his young daughter, Su-an (Kim Su-an, who delivers a ferociously believable child performance).

All of that begins to change when Seok-woo retrieves the girl for a birthday trip to visit her mother (she must be some kind of monster not to get custody in this situation) and they take an early morning train — oblivious to the threatening imagery on the periphery of Yeon’s compositions. The last person to board the high-speed KTX train is a girl with a curious bite on her leg.

Yeon shines as he introduces the film’s supporting characters with the sneaky glee of a chess master arranging his pieces for a blindside attack. As Seok-woo and his daughter walk through the cabin, we’re introduced to a baseball team, a girl with a crush on one of the players, a pregnant woman (Jung Yu-mi), her salt-of-the-earth husband (the super charismatic Ma Dong-seok), an old lady, her sister, a fresh-faced train employee, and more.

The only passenger to receive special attention, however, is the homeless man in the bathroom. All zombie movies need a social conscience, and “Train to Busan” is nominally devoted to the subject of economic discrimination. Survival isn’t possible, as Seok-woo soon learns, when the rich think only for themselves, and it’s telling that the KTX crew is so preoccupied with removing the poor stowaway that they fail to notice when a young girl starts eating the paying customers.

 

Characters will die with a randomness that feels capable of reviving the entire genre — the movie may be on rails, but it’s hard to overstate the degree to which Yeon’s script revitalizes a familiar premise (and uses action to articulate its central theme) by leveling the playing field. It’s key that “Train to Busan” quickly establishes rules of the game — the zombies are fast, their attacks are based on sight, and infection spreads within seconds — and resists the convenience of violating them until everything goes haywire in the inexcusable third act.

Yeon cherrypicks genre tropes in order to steer this story toward action rather than horror. He gleefully punctures the film’s austerity in order to send waves of zombies stampeding over themselves down the narrow train cabins. His favorite trick is to shoot through a window as a flesh-hungry passenger runs face-first into the glass, reasserting the physical reality that eluded similar blockbusters like “I Am Legend.” It’s even fun when the chaos spills outside and zombies begin falling from the sky, losing their grip on the landing gear of military helicopters.

READ MORE: ‘Snowpiercer’ TV Series in the Works

But it’s only a matter of time before Yeon loses his own grip on the material, and everything that made “Train to Busan” so exciting begins to sludge into runaway nonsense at 200 MPH. As the carnage ramps up and surviving characters are forced to become a ragtag group of zombie-fighting richard simmons-kickers, Seok-woo’s inevitable evolution from elitist prig to hero of the people gets lost in the shuffle. A half-assed side plot involving his potential involvement in the outbreak doesn’t help, nor does Yeon’s decision to let his protagonist off the hook by introducing an unbelievably scummy and selfish villain to shoulder all of the movie’s awfulness.

As the characters whittle away into archetypes (and start making senseless decisions), the spectacle also sheds its unique personality. There are really only so many ways that you can stage people sneaking around zombies in a confined space, and it’s even worse when they’re spotted and forced to fight back, if only because it’s not convincing to see a zombie throw in the towel after taking a light thwack to the head.

Yeon’s eventual surrender to such cartoonish imagery may be unsurprising given his background in animation (this is his first live-action feature), but “Train to Busan” is easily his least realistic film. This one is pitched for the big houses and the cheap seats, betraying the bitter streaks of humanism that made previous work like “The Fake” and “The King of Pigs” feel so unflinchingly real. “Train to Busan” preaches that equality is the key to survival, but Yeon doesn’t do the rest of us any favors by sacrificing the very things that make him special.

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/07/train-to-busan-review-korea-zombies-yeon-sang-ho-1201706829/
 

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‘Train to Busan’ Has a Very Strong Start Since Release

Korean zombie movie “Train to Busan” is off to a strong start since its release at the local box office on Wednesday.  The horror flick drew some 330,000 presales from local viewers as of 1 p.m., according to data from Korean Film Council. It features actors Gong Yoo and Don Lee as well as actress Jung Yu-mi.



Each character battles zombies that suddenly appear across the peninsula. They head down south to Busan by train to escape from Seoul. “Train to Busan” was screened at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in May. The movie was sold to more than 150 countries, according to its distributor Next Entertainment World. The movie is set to be released in North America on Friday. It is slated to be shown in Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, France and Hong Kong in August. 

http://www.koogle.tv/media/news/train-to-busan-has-a-very-strong-start-since-release/

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Film Review: Train to Busan

Seok-woo Suh (Gong Yoo), a busy Seoul-based fund manager whose job demands a broad streak of ruthlessness, is in the middle of a contentious divorce. He has primary custody of his young daughter Su-an (Su-an Kim), though most of the actual work of childcare is being done by his own mother. But Seok-woo agrees to take her to the port city of Busan, where his soon-to-be-ex lives, as a birthday treat, mostly because he made the spectacular gift-giving flub of buying Su-an a Wii, which she already has. In fact, he gave it to her. Recently. Plus, he missed her school recital. The only other thing she wants is to see her mommy on her birthday, even if she has to take the train alone. Rock, meet hard place.

So at the crack of dawn, largely oblivious to the steady stream of emergency vehicles they pass en route to the station, they're on the KTX 101 train to Busan. Their fellow passengers include an excitable pregnant woman and her husband; a pair of middle-aged sisters; assorted businessmen; a high-school baseball team, their coach and perky head cheerleader, and miscellaneous students, families and couples.

The last to board is a scruffy teenage girl, clearly sick but unnoticed because everyone is half-asleep, busy settling in or attending to passengers. So no one but the wide-eyed Su-an notices that chaos is breaking out in the station, though an officious passengerdoes draw a steward's attention to an apparently crazy man who's cowering in a bathroom muttering about everybody being dead. Meanwhile, the onboard TVs are abuzz with news of rioting in the streets ("In the old days they'd be re-educated," sniffs one of the sisters) and the scruffy teen, who has died and reanimated, goes on the rampage.

It doesn't take a hardcore horror fan to know what's coming next, though such fans will have seen it before, notably in the 1972 Peter Cushing-Christopher Lee film Horror Express. That said, the beauty of using a train as the main location is that it's simultaneously claustrophobic and in constant motion, and writer-director Sang-ho Yeonmakes effective use of the space, which has both plusses and minuses for the trapped potential victims. On the one hand, individual cars are relatively defensible; on the other, once the doors are breached at one end, the only option is to run down a narrow corridor to the next car and whatever awaits there. But the real drama, as is always the case in siege movies, lies in how the besieged behave. Do they freak out or stay cool, look out for number one or try to help others, react to the immediate crisis or come up with a big-picture plan?

There's plenty of all of the above to go around in Train to Busan, and the sheer volume of gnashing-jawed zombie action doesn't leave a great deal of room for character development. That Seok-woo gets the lion's share is hardly a surprise, but a handful of others have moments that keep the film from settling into a tedious series of bloody set-pieces, though there is plenty of blood to go around. The bone-cracking, convulsive contortions of the newly revived—who are new-school running zombies, rather than old-school shufflers—are seriously creepy, as is one throwaway shot of a zombie crawling through a compartment via the overhead luggage rack. Yeon's social commentary, which includes the by-now obligatory government assurances that these pesky outbreaks are under control juxtaposed with handheld news footage of snarling zombies wreaking havoc—doesn't stray far from the beaten path, but Train to Busan is good fun for those who like their fun seasoned with gory mayhem.

http://www.filmjournal.com/reviews/film-review-train-busan

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Sohee struggling in her transition to acting?



Source: Star News via Nate

1. [+729, -75] I guess this is what they call media play. She struggled with the few short scenes that she had and she stil gets called an 'actress' even with that crappy acting?

2. [+6e4, -44] Gong Yoo and Ma Dong Suk saved the movie.. ㅡ.ㅡ The zombies were better actors than her

3. [+522, -51] Is the journalist baiting hate for her?? She's already getting tons of hate for her bad acting, why fan the fire?

4. [+83, -7] She's ugly, can't sing or dance, can't act either. She'll spend the rest of her career relying on her old WG fame and playing supporting roles before being forgotten. Probably the biggest bubble I've seen out of any celebrity. Park Jin Young chose the right concept for her and helped launch her to fame but that doesn't work anymore now that she's in her mid twenties.

5. [+68, -6] She has such a blank facial expression that acting really doesn't seem like the best fit for her. Her tonality is a mess as well.

6. [+61, -3] Her acting was so disgustingly bad ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

7. [+38, -2] She thinks she's some hot shot celebrity and has too much pride to be a WG member. Does she think acting's some easy gig that she can jump into? This is the result that you'll be met with. She's getting flamed hard for her acting because she thought too easy of it.

8. [+38, -3] I paid for the early screening yesterday and she only had a few lines but even those made me sigh... her acting hasn't improved.

9. [+36, -2] It's the first time a zombie movie in Korea has been successful so a lot of people have been praising the movie itself but saying that the one con to the movie is Ahn Sohee's bad acting

10. [+28, -4] Ugh, because of you I lost focus every time you came out in the movie. So frustrating to watch. You have to be kidding me with those acting skills, right?

http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com.eg/2016/07/sohee-struggling-in-her-transition-to.html
 

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Gong Yoo starring "Busan bound" premiere, 87 million people a mobilization ... Korea movie the best ever opening record

Movie "Busan bound" is to mobilize 870,000 2,389 spectators in one day of the premiere, was set a unprecedented box office record to update the Korean film history former best opening performance. According to the summary of the movie promotion committee of the integrated network, "Busan bound" is the premiere 20 days, 870,000 2,389 people (the total audience number 1.43 million 8,003 people) were mobilized in one day, South Korea movie the best ever opening record was Uchitate. Opening record of "Busan bound" is, "Civil War / Captain America" is 720,000 7,901 people record and past best hit an upright April "Battle Ocean / sea decisive battle" in July 2014 it numbers more than to have a 680,000 2,701 people were mobilized. This "Busan bound" is published 2016 movie best opening, past July public movie highest opening, former South Korean movie opening, successive disaster film opening the first place, at the same time repainting the record of successive movie opening first place, South Korea rewrite the history of the movie box office. This "Busan bound" was repainted all the former best opening record in this way, was showing the signs from the previous publication of the hit. "Cannes Film Festival" and later, worldwide response to the popular, overwhelming popular from South Korea's leading media, followed by explosive pre-premiere occupancy rate approaching 95% on average, of Presidents of South Korea movie reservation amount of repainting all of the record, it was pulled out all the reservation recording of "Battle Ocean / sea battle", "Snowpiercer". In addition, it was recorded first place in the overwhelming seat occupancy by a numerical value surprising that seat occupancy rate is also 52.4 percent of the premiere. To set a past best opening record, I have repainted the history of Korean film box office "Busan bound", the review spread, has attracted the audience with speed, such as a roller coaster.

http://news.kstyle.com/article.ksn?articleNo=2049225

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