Train to Busan Review: Incredible blend of action and horror
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Train to Busan movie review & film summary (2016)
It's a perfect setting for a zombie movie. Before they even get to their early-morning train ride, Seok-woo and Su-an see a convoy of emergency vehicles headed into Seoul. When they get to the train, Sang-ho beautifully sets up his cast of characters, giving us beats with the conductors, a pair of elderly sisters, a husband and his pregnant ...
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Review Essay: Train to Busan Train to Busan, or Busanhaeng, is a movie about the zombie apocalypse in South Korea, directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring actors Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi and Ma Dong-seok. Released in 2016, this movie not only gains huge success in Korea and other Asian countries but also makes its mark on the movie industry.
Review: Train to Busan (부산행, 2016) ★★½
Soo-an is the quintessential action-movie daughter, providing the film with much of its heavy-handed morality (Train to Busan, 2016). So, Train to Busan has a great premise that is held back by cookie-cutter characters and an overly sentimental moral compass. These last two elements would be forgivable if not for the sheer length of the film ...
Film Analysis: Train to Busan (2016) by Yeon Sang-ho
Sequel to the animated film "Seoul Station", also by Yeon Sang-ho, "Train to Busan" is the film with the most admissions in South Korea for 2016, with more than 11.5 million. This number places it in the 11th position of the all-time list with admissions in the country, despite the fact that it is one of the very few South Korean productions with zombies.
Review: All Aboard 'Train to Busan' for Zombie and Class Warfare
Directed by Sang-ho Yeon. Action, Horror, Thriller. 1h 58m. By Jeannette Catsoulis. July 21, 2016. Elite passengers on a South Korean bullet train face a twitching, hissing threat from the cheap ...
Train to Busan
Rated. R. Runtime. 118 min. Release Date. 07/20/2016. Zombies become relevant, even vital again in Train to Busan ( Busan haeng ), a tense horror story that unfolds with breakneck pacing and unexpected emotional substance. South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho makes a leap from animation to his first live-action feature, delivering a decidedly ...
Movie Review: Train to Busan (2016)
Train to Busan is a wild ride, and one that can be enjoyed by any fan of cinema who can handle the trip. Critical Movie Critic Rating: 5. Movie Review: Planetarium (2016) Movie Review: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) Tagged: daughter, father, Korea, survival, train, zombie.
'Train to Busan' Review
Yeon Sang-ho. Film Review: 'Train to Busan'. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Midnight), May 13, 2016. Running time: 118 MIN. (Original Title: "Busan haeng") Production: (South Korea) A Next ...
Review: Train to Busan
Review: Train to Busan. Train to Busan 's scare tactics are among the most distinctive that the zombie canon has ever seen. by Ed Gonzalez. July 17, 2016. Writer-director Yeon Sang-ho's Train to Busan, which largely takes place aboard a high-seed KTX train traveling from Seoul to Busan in the midst of a zombie outreak, is so nakedly ...
Train to Busan: A Ride Paved With Good Intentions
Overall, Train to Busan turned out to be a fabulous and marvellous film, with a fantastic plot, unforeseen twists, genuine human connections and well-choreographed action sequences. This movie's spot-on delivery of the character lines in spite of the usual standards of its genre makes it a standout piece worthy of every bit of praise it's ...
Review: Train to Busan (South Korea, 2016)
Imagine World War Z and Snowpiercer mashed together. That roughly describes Train to Busan, the highest grossing South Korean film of 2016. With almost $100 million in box office earnings and over ten million domestic viewers, the movie is not only an entertaining blockbuster, but also a remarkable live-action debut for a director who previously was known exclusively for dark, socially ...
Review: Train to Busan
Review: Train to Busan. A novel take on a familiar genre, in this tense South Korean zombie movie that combines claustrophobia and siderodromophobia with the fear of being eaten. The zombie genre was an inevitable perfect fit for South Korea's Yeon Sang-ho. Flesh-eating films have long had a current of social commentary running through them ...
'Train to Busan': EW review
Starring Gong Yoo as a Seoul-based hedge fund manager and Kim Su-an as his offspring, writer-director Sang-ho Yeon's film borrows heavily from World War Z in its depiction of the fast-moving ...
The Last Thing I See: 'Train To Busan' (2016) Movie Review
The result is one of the most propulsive, urgent zombie movies in recent memory. Clocking in at nearly two hours, this is still lean and ferocious, without a wasted stroke to be found. Train to Busan mixes breathless action with ravenous flesh-eaters. And all of the horror business is built upon rich emotionality and fully realized characters ...
Train to Busan
Jul 4, 2024. There is a deep love that carries through the devastation, Train to Busan delivers what movies are all about. Jun 8, 2024. This is viral horror with an organic purity and a cinematic ...
Train To Busan Film Review
Between slick camera work, a relentless pace and overwhelming tension, Train To Busan is one of the best zombie films in quite some time. The claustrophobic setting of the train cars its predominantly shot in lend itself to a unique setting as the apocalypse grips Korea and a handful of survivors cling to what little hope remains.
Train To Busan Review
Published on 24 10 2016. Release Date: 27 Oct 2016. Original Title: Train To Busan. Terrorists in a skyscraper, alien in a spaceship, snakes on a plane: the mix of dangerous antagonists and ...
TRAIN TO BUSAN Review
Film Pulse Score. Release Date: July 22, 2016 (Limited) Director: Sang-ho Yeon. MPAA Rating: NR. Runtime: 118 Minutes. Before checking out Train to Busan, I thought that I wasn't going to see another zombie movie that I cared for for at least a half a dozen years or so, due to the ridiculous zombie saturation we've had over the last several ...
Train to Busan Movie Review
Our review: Parents say ( 8 ): Kids say ( 14 ): The zombie genre is so well worn, anything fresh to sink your teeth into is always darkly delicious. As such, writer-director Sang-ho Yeon's smashing together of the disaster movie genre with modern running zombies -- and all the frantic, breathless action they bring with them -- makes Train to ...
Train to Busan (2016)
Train to Busan: Directed by Yeon Sang-ho. With Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an. While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Train to Busan: Movie Review + Lessons Learned
Gong-Yoo as Soek-woo - a fund manager, a workaholic father who gives his career a much more important than his family especially his daughter giving her two (2) wii, one from children's day and one on her birthday. When the situation begins, thought of his safety and his daughter at first and the end he learns to care for others.
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Being that the Train to Busan is receiving different negative views from the public that involves delivering plenty of astute social commentary and glory violence, the movie, on the other hand, handle such controversial issues through the positive content that is related to the whole content and even the plot of the film.Even though the movie ...
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It's a perfect setting for a zombie movie. Before they even get to their early-morning train ride, Seok-woo and Su-an see a convoy of emergency vehicles headed into Seoul. When they get to the train, Sang-ho beautifully sets up his cast of characters, giving us beats with the conductors, a pair of elderly sisters, a husband and his pregnant ...
Review Essay: Train to Busan Train to Busan, or Busanhaeng, is a movie about the zombie apocalypse in South Korea, directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring actors Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi and Ma Dong-seok. Released in 2016, this movie not only gains huge success in Korea and other Asian countries but also makes its mark on the movie industry.
Soo-an is the quintessential action-movie daughter, providing the film with much of its heavy-handed morality (Train to Busan, 2016). So, Train to Busan has a great premise that is held back by cookie-cutter characters and an overly sentimental moral compass. These last two elements would be forgivable if not for the sheer length of the film ...
Sequel to the animated film "Seoul Station", also by Yeon Sang-ho, "Train to Busan" is the film with the most admissions in South Korea for 2016, with more than 11.5 million. This number places it in the 11th position of the all-time list with admissions in the country, despite the fact that it is one of the very few South Korean productions with zombies.
Directed by Sang-ho Yeon. Action, Horror, Thriller. 1h 58m. By Jeannette Catsoulis. July 21, 2016. Elite passengers on a South Korean bullet train face a twitching, hissing threat from the cheap ...
Rated. R. Runtime. 118 min. Release Date. 07/20/2016. Zombies become relevant, even vital again in Train to Busan ( Busan haeng ), a tense horror story that unfolds with breakneck pacing and unexpected emotional substance. South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho makes a leap from animation to his first live-action feature, delivering a decidedly ...
Train to Busan is a wild ride, and one that can be enjoyed by any fan of cinema who can handle the trip. Critical Movie Critic Rating: 5. Movie Review: Planetarium (2016) Movie Review: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) Tagged: daughter, father, Korea, survival, train, zombie.
Yeon Sang-ho. Film Review: 'Train to Busan'. Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Midnight), May 13, 2016. Running time: 118 MIN. (Original Title: "Busan haeng") Production: (South Korea) A Next ...
Review: Train to Busan. Train to Busan 's scare tactics are among the most distinctive that the zombie canon has ever seen. by Ed Gonzalez. July 17, 2016. Writer-director Yeon Sang-ho's Train to Busan, which largely takes place aboard a high-seed KTX train traveling from Seoul to Busan in the midst of a zombie outreak, is so nakedly ...
Overall, Train to Busan turned out to be a fabulous and marvellous film, with a fantastic plot, unforeseen twists, genuine human connections and well-choreographed action sequences. This movie's spot-on delivery of the character lines in spite of the usual standards of its genre makes it a standout piece worthy of every bit of praise it's ...
Imagine World War Z and Snowpiercer mashed together. That roughly describes Train to Busan, the highest grossing South Korean film of 2016. With almost $100 million in box office earnings and over ten million domestic viewers, the movie is not only an entertaining blockbuster, but also a remarkable live-action debut for a director who previously was known exclusively for dark, socially ...
Review: Train to Busan. A novel take on a familiar genre, in this tense South Korean zombie movie that combines claustrophobia and siderodromophobia with the fear of being eaten. The zombie genre was an inevitable perfect fit for South Korea's Yeon Sang-ho. Flesh-eating films have long had a current of social commentary running through them ...
Starring Gong Yoo as a Seoul-based hedge fund manager and Kim Su-an as his offspring, writer-director Sang-ho Yeon's film borrows heavily from World War Z in its depiction of the fast-moving ...
The result is one of the most propulsive, urgent zombie movies in recent memory. Clocking in at nearly two hours, this is still lean and ferocious, without a wasted stroke to be found. Train to Busan mixes breathless action with ravenous flesh-eaters. And all of the horror business is built upon rich emotionality and fully realized characters ...
Jul 4, 2024. There is a deep love that carries through the devastation, Train to Busan delivers what movies are all about. Jun 8, 2024. This is viral horror with an organic purity and a cinematic ...
Between slick camera work, a relentless pace and overwhelming tension, Train To Busan is one of the best zombie films in quite some time. The claustrophobic setting of the train cars its predominantly shot in lend itself to a unique setting as the apocalypse grips Korea and a handful of survivors cling to what little hope remains.
Published on 24 10 2016. Release Date: 27 Oct 2016. Original Title: Train To Busan. Terrorists in a skyscraper, alien in a spaceship, snakes on a plane: the mix of dangerous antagonists and ...
Film Pulse Score. Release Date: July 22, 2016 (Limited) Director: Sang-ho Yeon. MPAA Rating: NR. Runtime: 118 Minutes. Before checking out Train to Busan, I thought that I wasn't going to see another zombie movie that I cared for for at least a half a dozen years or so, due to the ridiculous zombie saturation we've had over the last several ...
Our review: Parents say ( 8 ): Kids say ( 14 ): The zombie genre is so well worn, anything fresh to sink your teeth into is always darkly delicious. As such, writer-director Sang-ho Yeon's smashing together of the disaster movie genre with modern running zombies -- and all the frantic, breathless action they bring with them -- makes Train to ...
Train to Busan: Directed by Yeon Sang-ho. With Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an. While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Gong-Yoo as Soek-woo - a fund manager, a workaholic father who gives his career a much more important than his family especially his daughter giving her two (2) wii, one from children's day and one on her birthday. When the situation begins, thought of his safety and his daughter at first and the end he learns to care for others.
Being that the Train to Busan is receiving different negative views from the public that involves delivering plenty of astute social commentary and glory violence, the movie, on the other hand, handle such controversial issues through the positive content that is related to the whole content and even the plot of the film.Even though the movie ...