Fear the commuting dead

Rating: 8/10 (25 February 2019)

In this fine Korean entry in the 'fast-moving zombie' sub-genre, a diverse group of survivors find themselves sharing the linear confines of a high-speed train with ravenous undead, hoping to eventually reach safe haven. I watched an English subtitled version, but thought that the cast was very good, especially 10-year old Kim Su-an as Su-an and Gong Yoo as Seok-woo, her fund-manager father who is forced to re-examine his values in light of the grisly apocalypse. The film is somewhat uneven in the capacities of the hyper-animated corpses to absorb punishment but otherwise the story holds together pretty well (considering the premise is a communicable agent that near instantaneously turns a bitten person into a milky-eyed, frenetic cannibal). Well-made and smoothly directed, 'Train to Busan' is an entertaining entry into a generally bloated genre and impressively for a zomboid film, pulls off affecting, almost moving, ending.