Today, I'm
departing from my chronological timeline to briefly honour a terrific new
talent I had the pleasure of seeing at work last night helming one of the
finest zombie movies ever made: Busanhaeng (Train To Busan) - by a major new talent, South Korean
director Yeon Sang-Ho.
It's crafted with unusual care and dashes of
humour to bring out great performances and characters you can actually care
about rather than the usual thin, 20-something model stereotypes. We never lose
sight of the human peril and the conflict between self-serving and helping one
another as a party of students, a selfish corporate suit and his daughter, and
one of the most wonderfully unlikely heroes do battle with a city-scape and
carriages full of the rampaging infected.
Train to
Busan has a brilliant bullet-train pace that never lets up from the outbreak
onward, a poignant score and the kind of all-action stunning set-pieces that could well have you replaying sequences. (If you enjoyed World War Z's jaw-dropping
undead swarm up the Jerusalem wall, you'll love this...).
Even the army of extras playing the zombies commit superbly to their raging, body-popping physicalisation.
Forget the
abysmal, cheap. forced-cult deluge we've been subjected to since Shaun of the
Dead and get a load of this
balls-to-the-wall modern masterpiece.
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