 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review This is for the 2016 release train to Busan, which is a South Korean film and yes It has subtitles so for you individuals out there who don't do subtitles and films I will say this once again. I've said it before I understand it if it gives you migraines things like that Or if you actually can't read I don't know I know there are people who actually can't read so But other than that if you don't have one of those situations You're missing out if you just refuse to read subtitles because you don't like the idea of doing it or you're like I don't want to read when I watch a movie your brain gets used to it after the first five to ten minutes And then you don't even realize that you're reading so you're missing out on a lot of great stuff and train to Busan is a good film Definitely worth seeing People really had to talk me into seeing this film because I know I've said it on some of my other reviews I'm done with zombie films. Like I just I'm Zombied out. I I really if I'm gonna watch zombie stuff I will only still watch the older stuff and I will say that like this film made me want to go rewatch two movies Two zombie movies George A. Romero's Day of the Dead. I love that movie I think it's so well done and it still holds up today and A another South Korean zombie film actually from the 90s I think maybe early early 2000s called bio zombie now if you can find bio zombie Definitely watch it. It's really hard to get ahold of It I had to buy the copy that I actually have on DVD on on eBay It was very hard to find but it is awesome and actually with the US version the dubbed Version is the version kind of have to watch Because the subtitle version you can't even like hear the audio and there's like a lot of pops There there's a big problem with the actual audio. So you kind of have to do it Dubbed over and it's actually funnier that way. So bio zombie day of the dead. Love it. Anyway, we're talking about train to Busan Yeah, and like I said a lot of people were like, I know you're not big into zombies But train to Busan train to Busan is really worth it. It's good and it is worth it I would say if if you just want a good horror film You want one with some good heart to it that has some things to say some social commentary be it South Korea But that's actually I don't know It's kind of like it some of it's applicable to everywhere to be honest So anyway when I watch this it is available on the shutter or streaming service So that's when this video is coming out. It's available on shutter and I would recommend everyone get it So this film was direct directed by Sang Ho Yon Who did a really good job the directing in this is very nice There's actually a sequel that is in pre-production at the moment also being done by Sang Ho Yon so This was very popular. I'll talk in a minute about how popular it was but You're getting a second one So if you're watching this and you've already seen train to Busan, you're like, I love it There's a second one coming at some point But it's gonna take a little bit of time for it to get to the United States but in the meantime There is going to be a train to Busan remake in the United States Yes, it's gonna be directed by James Wan now it could be good because I like James Wan I think he's a very good director. He got his start doing the Saw films Some people may know some people may not but that's what I know him from Most and then he became even more popular with doing like the Conjuring films and and insidious and stuff like that Actually, did he do the Conjuring? I think he may have done the first Conjuring He was involved in the insidious films But I can't remember his exact roles in those but anyway James Wan very very good director So train to Busan in English could be good, but to be honest I probably won't see it just because I prefer the originals. It's kind of like when they remade let the right one in There was a Swedish film that was phenomenal And I'm like there's no way they can improve on this and people will watch both of them have kind of confirmed They didn't improve on it. They basically did tried to do like a shot-for-shot remake, which what's the point? and then also like another South Korean film that I love that is currently streaming on shutter old boy all one word amazing one of my favorite films ever that was done by Chamble Park and Unbelievable and they remade that in English. I'm like there's absolutely no way that this is gonna be better Or even as good because that that film is phenomenal It in every aspect anyway, I'll do a review on that at some point because some people consider it horror and it's on shutter I don't really think it's actually horror, but whatever. Anyway, we're talking about train to Busan. I get sidetracked. I'm sorry So there was an animated prequel for this movie that actually came out And it was apparently released like a month after the release theatrical release of train to Busan So this animated prequel is called soul station because the the it goes from soul to Busan the train that is Also, they animated Prequels was done by young by saying how young so that's cool. So the budget for this film was eight point five million dollars It looks really good. You can tell it's pretty polished. It had a decent production A amount of money that went into the production. So here's what it made in worldwide theater sales 93.1 million dollars this Film you can I mean you can tell just based on that why it's getting a second film because very very profitable very profitable and more than 11 million audience members in South Korea alone to see this film. That's huge Okay, so there there there had been a lot a lot of praise for this film when it originally came out But there were also a lot of people were just like, oh, have you seen snow piercer? It's basically snow piercer, but with zombies, which I know snow piercer supposedly on a train I think that's like a Finnish or Swedish film. I haven't seen it. I've heard it's very good And I will see it at some point, but just haven't seen it yet So maybe it was good for me to not have seen that going into train to Busan. I don't know That I already talked about the English remake. So how the drop the Getting into talking about the actual film How the zombies are derived in this happens pretty much immediately, which I like it kind of signals Okay, this is how we're getting Zombies just giving you as an audience member like a hint of what type of zombie You're dealing with because there are a lot of different types of zombies. It's kind of like the within the horror genre There are sub-genres of film and zombie movies are one of those but then within the the zombies Subgenre there's sub-genres of types of zombies and you have like biological zombies. You have like voodoo zombies Why am I? Why am I blanking on other types like magical zombie like they're just all these different types of zombies and In this film they kind of give you the strong hint real early Like this is the type of zombie. We're dealing with this is how the outbreak is starting basically They do a good job establishing a very important relationship in this This isn't really a spoiler because it's in the synopsis of But when you would look at it before you're gonna watch the film They did a really good job Establishing the relationship between the father and the daughter in this film who are the main focus Although one once they get on to the train it kind of you know Expands who you're looking at and who you care about and who's really involved in the film and gets a lot of screen time And that kind of takes me to the next thing of The acting I felt like everyone for the most part brought that their a game even the people playing the zombies The zombies looked really good They move really well and the people playing them did a really good job like with their motions and their facial expressions And their movements so overall the acting on this film was very very nice And I think that kind of rolls into like the directing was really good The cinematography was really nice the computer graphics for the most part looked really good There are a few spots where they look like you could tell like oh, that's computer graphics It looks a little weird looks a little out of place mainly towards the end Some some of you watching this if you've seen it already you'll know what I'm talking about but well, maybe But yeah for the most part really good and that I'm pretty pretty happy with the cast so one of the main themes in this it kind of speaks to how family unfriendly society is and that rolls in because of You know, you see this in films a decent amount like a father figure who doesn't have a whole lot of time for their kid This kid stuck in a terrible situation because there's a divorce going on So stuck between mommy and daddy and daddy works way too much. So there's not a very strong relationship right there So kind of the I know people can always can all guess I guess this is thematically a tad bit spoilery But not really that that the there's more of a bond that forms between the father and daughter Throughout the film and I think that the way they set that up in the beginning They did a really good job with to kind of show the distance that they were having and the problems They're going through at that point and then how things change when an external force kind of makes you Come together, you know, you you have to stick together. You have to be closer. You have to look out for each other So I like how they did that It also hits on the theme of older generations always picking on the younger generations Which actually is not just a problem in South Korea. It's a problem kind of everywhere I know we're seeing it a lot in the United States where I live with People always being like all of these Millennials. That's the other thing It's like they always give name categories to different generations, which I think is kind of stupid because that in itself just I feel like encourages people to label those individuals of a certain age as Something negative when you when you create a category like that as human beings. We just love to categorize everything It's kind of ridiculous in certain instances. It's fine, but when you're categorizing people, it's actually not a good thing so Yeah, but like in the United States the perfect examples like people always like oh these damn Millennials these Millennials like They don't know what to do. They're you know, they're doing things all wrong They should stick to tradition they should do things this way and that's kind of done in this film. They're like There's an older generation. It's not hit on like a ton But but a little bit where it's kind of like them looking at the younger generations and being like Oh, you should do things like this like this is what's expected of you. This is how we did it So you should do it that way but what people don't really understand is that at some point your Generation as a person saying you know something to the younger generation your generation is gonna be gone and then the world and the society belongs to the younger generation and then It keeps getting passed on passed on passed on and things are gonna change and they're gonna do things their way They're gonna get involved in politics. They're gonna shape society They're gonna shape where the world goes all that stuff and it's not gonna stay the same and if it stayed the same It wouldn't be humanity because humanity always moves forward. They always get better technology They always change how society interacts with each other, you know all these things There's good and there's bad, but there's always change. It's always gonna happen So I like the point that kind of make of like how ridiculous it is a little bit of these older generations Just being like me like wagging their finger at the younger generations and it's going on everywhere Like I said, so people stop being like you millennials Just stop especially because when you get old enough that you're in like a nursing home You're gonna need those millennials to come and like change your diapers Me included just saying There's a theme of abandonment in this and how that affects people in physically dangerous situations as all as well as in relationship situations and a lot of that actually it actually is Pulled in with you know the relationship between the father and the daughter of like being you know relationship-wise Abandoned there's some other abandonment kind of like that with relationships, but then there's the physical abandonment So it's kind of like the the relationship abandonment is being Manifested into the physical abandonment with the zombie invasion and I kind of like how those two things play together. It's very cool The zombies look really good. I already talked about this the zombies look good But it's not just like their makeup looked really good Like I was saying the actors who played the zombies did a really good job with their movements with their facial expressions They're kind of like they have like some twitchy Movements that they just did a really good job. Whoever was there like a zombie coach. I don't even know if that's the thing I'm saying it is whoever was like their zombie coach or choreographer did a really good job a method of zombie avoidance in this film that Is used is very interesting to me That is kind of a little bit of their own twist on the whole zombie genre or subgenre and I liked it I found it interesting and it worked. I mean it definitely worked I mean some people could kind of be like I don't know and some of these interest Instances if you want to get really nitpicky about things, but for the most part, it's nothing egregious where you're like Oh, come on So I like I like what they did and I and I felt like in general the writer the writers which Saying Ho-yeon is what was one of the writers He did the screenplay and there was someone else who was involved in writing the actual story portion but I Felt like they did a really good job of critically thinking About what they were trying to do with with the zombies versus the people and all the physical Situations that people were in and how things really should work within the environment. They had them in so I just thought the writing was Was really good and there's a lot of thought put into it. Obviously I Loved the enclosed space situation. I've talked about this before in Reviews that I'm a big fan of horror movies where whatever the bad thing is It you like people are trapped with it in a confined space and obviously on a train That is a very confined space with this You know with these zombies and I just like the way that plays out I like the way it feels because it makes the audience members a little more on edge or at least it makes me more On edge and it I feel like it has a good it does a good Job with ratcheting up tension naturally because you know the confines of where they can go and can't go They do a good job of making everything feel very bleak as soon as the outbreak hits because they don't just focus on You know just the group of people you're seeing they'll they actually give you like more context like Outside of that and it kind of like it they they're in a microcosm And then they just kind of like go outward a little bit to kind of give you an idea of what the scale of what's going on And I really like that because it it raises the stakes it ratchets the tension even more And then it gives you this kind of feel of like well Even if these people get out of this situation Then are they even gonna be safe like aren't they still in a terrible situation potentially so I like that It's always interesting to see what types of people the filmmaker choose to be Survivors because the other thing is that dictates the dynamics of who's left Excuse me I know a lot of people watch the Walking Dead and they really love the Walking Dead because of the human aspects of it and People you know kind of say it's more of like a human drama with then zombies happen to be there now This kind of does that too and I feel like zombie films in general do a lot about a lot of that Because it you have to see and you have to really pay attention to how people who are left interact with each other And it's not just like verbally, but it's physically and like trust versus distrust or like the issues that end up coming up of like You know is this person? You know, what's this person's motive? Are they just looking out for themselves? Are they looking out for other people? Has this person been bitten they're trying to hide it You know things like that and then people's kind of fear kicks in fight or flight all those things get rolled in But the fact that I always like to see in these zombie films Like who's chosen as the people who end up living because based on the types of people that you choose The dynamics of the group is gonna be very different So I always like to see that although I don't check out a whole lot of zombie films anymore because like I was saying I'm kind of like All right, we've done a lot There are a lot of good moments like are we losing this person right now? Or is someone gonna step up and save this person that kind of speaks more to like the tension staying up the action being good Many many moments of people in peril where you're just like you really don't know like is this where this person is gonna Get it or is someone going to go and save them and you have a lot of these moments where you even see the characters who might go and You know successfully or unsuccessfully tried to save someone Where they have like that little bit of dilemma going on in their minds where they're just like my safety versus being a good person And helping this person out. I don't know and I really like that They maintain the tension even in moments that have little action But there's also a decent amount of action in this film I feel like through the dialogue that they have through people kind of trying to figure things out when there's not actually action going on It keeps the tension ratcheted up because you can still sense That there's tension that like people are still afraid and it's a very dire situation trying to figure out what to do next There are a few small comedic moments in this film, but it doesn't detract from what's going on You know there are times in these films where people throw in comedic stuff and it feels like it Changes the pace too much or it cuts off an impactful moment a little bit too short when when people should be allowed to sit with it for a few moments and like feel it and They don't do that with this like what they they put the little comedic moments in and smart areas And it doesn't detract from anything. So I really like that These types of films are great reminders that humanity matters most and everything we worry about on a daily basis Could just disappear on the blink of an eye Then what do you have? Relationships basically are the only thing that would endure and that's a lot of times relationships of strangers You know people you meet you have no idea who they are You have no context of how they ended up there what they've done in their lives with their motivations are and you just need to Figure it out because you everyone's got to rely on each other if you want to survive And so this kind of really helps and I think zombie films in general just helped to you know kind of kind of bring home the idea that Everything that you focus on so much on a daily weekly monthly yearly basis is It could mean nothing in in the grand scheme of things because of something Catastrophic happens. It's all gone in the blink of an eye and you have to you have to adapt You have to learn a new way forward if you survive if you're one of the survivors So I just like that. It's kind of also more of It's also a good reminder of your mortality And which is one of the reasons I like horror so much because I'm also afraid of that so it's cathartic as well This film is actually close to two hours and at times it kind of feels like it a little bit for for the most part It doesn't but I would say probably around the mark of where there's about 45 minutes left in the film is where it Finally starts to feel like it drags a little bit, but it's not too bad with that So I guess it could have been tightened up just a little bit, but for the most part they didn't all right. I An all right job scene is that it's a two-hour film I already said directing acting cinematography is really good the CG look good enough There's some key for shadowing. So this is for people who have not watched the movie yet And you're watching this review. This is not a spoiler. Don't worry, but I'm just giving you a hint There's some key for shadowing of what happens in the very end of this In some dialogue between two characters about halfway through the movie It seems very inane and it seems like it's not gonna matter what they're talking about so much Like it makes a little bit of more of like a societal point But it is a it is it the moment of like veiled for shadowing that tells you what's gonna happen in the end So I and that said I like the ending. I thought it was a good ending I thought it had a lot of impact and when I say that it's not just one key thing It was a few things in the end. It's like a bunch of things grouped together as the ending in a hole was very good It was very impactful. It worked. It was nice And then yeah, I wrote makes me want to watch and reminder everyone makes me watch day of the dead and buy a zombie. So So there you go. I finally watched train to Busan people have been nagging me to watch this for quite some time I enjoyed it. I did and I guess Maybe it'll make me think a little bit more about checking out newer zombie films. I don't know we'll find out but Yeah, I enjoyed it. So on my five-point scale with half stars or five-star scale with half stars in play I'm gonna give it a four-star It's kind of between like a four and a four and a half because it is pretty good But I think it's more on the four end than it is a four and a half So four stars for train to Busan. I enjoyed it Let me know what you think about this film. Have you seen it? Put some comments down there. 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