Yes, the sequel of Train to Busan, currently in the theatres, which I am still avoiding like they are filled with the zombie hordes, not that I was rushing out to them even before-Pause, but I found a pristine copy with wonderful subtitles! Despite my opening line in the first blog entry, I enjoyed Train to Busan and even more so in rewatching. But the movie didn't leave much room for a sequel involving the original cast, so it didn't bother. This is the post-zombie-apocalypse world, one where the refugees of South Korea have scattered to the wind, and the entire peninsula has been quarantined.
Things are not going well for the refugees, as we know how well the world likes mass crowds of downtrodden people showing up on their shores unexpected, with little to no money and different languages. So, four years later, survivors Jung Seok and Chul-min, the man he saved, are barely surviving in Hong Kong. When the opportunity comes up to make some cash, American cash, by returning to the city on Incheon, financed by a criminal organization, they don't quite jump for it, but really, they don't have any choice. They are sent with a few others, to find a truck full of cash, and bring it to the docks. The last crew sent died, but the truck should almost be there. Of course, things don't go as planned.
This is an PoAp action movie laid atop the zombie genre. Incheon, and the rest of South Korea, is in ruins. Four years after the zapocalypse, most of the inhabitants are eaten or zombified or gathered with a Mad Max style group of violent thugs. Except for Min Jung, her kids and their grandfather. Exiles from the compound run by Captain Seo, they are more than capable of taking care of themselves, thus they easily rescue Jung Seok when the rest of his crew is killed. The truck full of money (and food and Chul-min) is taken back to the compound. She realizes that the money, and the ship arriving to retrieve it, can get her family out of the dead city, so they plan to raid the compound (where the truck was taken after Jung Seok's crew died) and take it for themselves.
Min Jung's two daughters are expert getaway drivers, maneuvering their CGI car around the city and through the zombies with an ease more at home in video games. Its rather silly looking, but also rather a visually captivating as the car swings around, bashing down zombies, bouncing off barriers with nary a scratch. This is easily the best bits of the movie, which is focused around the good guys surviving both the Bad Guy thugs and the fast-running, mass-gathering zombie hordes. Jung Seok and Min Jung may be expert shots, but the speedy super-leaping zombies will eventually take them all down, unless they get to the boat.
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