Extremely fun, not much else

Rating: 4/10 (19 February 2020)

I went into this film thinking it was going to be extremely similar to one of my favorite anime, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. While the parallels are extremely easy to see, they are extremely different. No actual plot of this movie would I even consider mediocre. I think the dad and daughter relationship was set up fine, but I didn't feel any emotion in final scene. I just didn't really care, and obviously it's sad, but I just don't know enough about the characters to really feel emotion. There was one emotional part in the entire movie, that part being when the survivors are trying to get to safety after making their way through 4 cars, and Su-an was crying seeing people struggle to get the door open in front of her, and struggle to get the door closed behind her. That was easily the best scene of the entire movie, and the only part that went into anything deeper than a shallow zombie film. The other main plot, of the husband and his pregnant wife was fine, but nothing about it was really special. The dialogue of this film was definitely one of its weak points. There were huge long stretches of no dialogue when I think they could have really built up some of the characters in this time. It felt to me like this movie couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a fun action flick, or a deeper more emotional film. It tried to walk the line between both, and just did so very poorly. The worst of both were brought out. Overall I didn't hate this movie, but compared to other shows extremely similar, I would never recommend this over something like Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress.