Train to Busan

Rating: 7/10 (28 April 2019)

Train to Busan (Busanhaeng) is a South Korean survivalist zombie movie.
It owes more to the Hollywood disaster movies on the 1970s such as The Poseidon Adventure or the Airport films.
Seok-woo is a divorced fund manager. A workaholic who never has much time for his young daughter Su-an. They board a train so she can visit her mother. An injured young woman scrambles onto the train before it leaves Seoul. She had been bitten and becomes infected by some type of virus that turns her into a flesh eating zombie.
As she bites others, they too become infected and in turn attack other passengers and staff. Some of the survivors try to move quickly to the safe carriages.
Survivors include Seok-woo and his daughter, a pregnant woman and her macho husband, two elderly sisters, members of a high school baseball team, a selfish tycoon and a few others. As the train journey continues, they get picked off one by one.
The zombies have been inspired by World War Z as at times they can be fast moving. The director has done well in maintaining tension and a claustrophobic atmosphere before moving the action to other places.
The characters are nicely fleshed out and this is one of the better zombie movies.