Travelers learn that the entire country has gone brain-hungry. The claustrophobic tension of “Train to Busan” is amplifiedĪfter a brilliantly staged sequence in a train station in which our surviving And you thought your Metra commute was bad. Whole cars of the train into dead-eyed flesh-eaters in a matter of seconds. Later” variety-fast, focused, and violent. Know it, the woman is taking out the jugular of a conductor, who immediatelyīecomes a similarly mindless killing machine. Generally unseen is happening in the station above the platform. Train just before it departs, and just as something else disturbing but A woman who’s clearly not well gets on the His pregnant wife, an obnoxious businessman (a vision of Seok-woo in a coupleĭecades), and even a baseball team. Giving us beats with the conductors, a pair of elderly sisters, a husband and They get to the train, Sang-ho beautifully sets up his cast of characters, Seok-woo and Su-an see a convoy of emergency vehicles headed into Seoul. It’s a perfect setting for a zombieīefore they even get to their early-morning train ride, What could possibly go wrong?Įven the set-up is a thematic beauty, as this is more than just a train rideįor Seok-woo and Su-an-it’s a journey into the past as a father tries to mendīridges and fix that which may be dead. Su-an what she really wants-a trip to her mother’s home in Busan, 280 milesĪway. To make up for this rather-awkward moment, he agrees to give That she has one already, and that he’s the one who bought it for her forĬhildren’s Day.
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So distant from her that he buys her a Nintendo Wii for her birthday, ignoring His mother and barely spends any time with his daughter Su-an (Kim Su-an). Seok-woo ( Gong Yoo) is a divorced workaholic.