Film
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
- Director
- Yeon Sang-ho
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 116 mins
The rule that sequels should be bigger and louder is firmly adhered to by South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho for this cumbersomely titled follow-up to his thrilling zombie flick. That means there’s a familiarity about the zippy, ravenous undead and their setting this time round. The political satire is also a little more muted than before, unless you need reminding that the evil living can be nastier than the evil dead or are prepared to look for a Covid-19 subtext.
With expectations suitably lowered, gorehounds will be overjoyed to find that Yeon still excels at the set-piece action sequences. The story unfolds four years on from the events of the previous film. Zombie hordes have now overrun the Korean peninsula. Two fleeing men are persuaded by a bunch of nasty Hong Kong mercenaries to return and retrieve 20 million US dollars from an abandoned truck.
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