WWZ... in Korea!

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2017)

This flick could be during the WWZ universe, but in another place, South Korea. The zombies behave just like the WWZ zombies. Bite you, 1-2 mins later, depending on the severity of your injuries, and you are a fast running, hyper-athletic flesh eater, pulsating in crowds fighting over each other to get at the living flesh in a undead wave.
Other than the characteristics of the zombies, the movie is quite different from the aforementioned title. The scope is contained to a relatively small band of survivors, trapped on a high-speed train from NW Seoul to SW Busan during the onset of an outbreak.
The scope of the movie concentrates on a 30-something fund manager and his neglected 10-yo daughter, on their way to visit her mother and his ex-wife. Begrudgingly, he accepts this journey in an effort to please his daughter on her birthday, a day in which he gives her the same present he gave her last year. Much tears and reflection sets up the strain between the two and his later efforts to redeem himself.
From here, all hell breaks loose. An infected passenger soon turns the bulk of the passengers on the train into zombies, in a scene very reminiscent of the WWZ airplane scene. The end result is the survivors desperately trying to survive in the enclosures between the train-cars.
Like any good disaster movie, just when you think it can't get worse, it does. That is as far as I will go with the plot, to avoid spoilers.
So, I loved the movie, but it requires you to not think about the logic too much, if you know anything about Korea. The fact that the infection spreads faster than a speeding train. That no guns or military presence is available, despite the fact that every Korean male is required to serve in the military for X number of years. For most western audiences, they won't notice and it doesn't detract from the fun.
A++