Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula

R13
2020
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115 mins
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Yeon Sang-ho returns to direct the sequel to Korean zombie apocalypse thriller Train to Busan. Set four years after the... More

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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula | Ratings & Reviews

"Apart from a few chilling moments—a reveal of hundreds of zombies pressed up against glass just in front of its heroes, for instance—Peninsula squanders the potential that lies in the return to a world lost to the undead. As opposed to a constant existential threat, the zombies’ presence is mainly used to increase the film’s tempo arbitrarily—as CGI creatures to splatter en masse with CGI cars or a chaotic addition to human versus human gunfights. Gone are paranoid tropes (Is this person bitten? Is this room safe?) in favour of fairly unspectacular action, returning writer-director Yeon Sang-ho seeming more interested in Incheon’s soldiers-gone-mad survivors (who frankly are not depicted as all that interesting)."

FlicksFlicks

"The film has clipped along at a reasonably brisk pace until this point, only to downshift into a laughably protracted slow-motion finale, full of gratuitous lens flares and overwrought strings."

VarietyVariety

"Yeon eventually just throws his hands up and surrenders to the cheesy spectacle of it all with a frenzied third act that finds the entire cast in a death race to the border. It’s here that Yeon stops being able to afford his own ambition, and the film’s budget suddenly feels like a rubber band stretched over a hula-hoop."

IndieWireIndieWire

"Peninsula feels like the work of an artist who misunderstood his past triumph, squandering his talent for the sake of a pandering, halfhearted encore."

Slant MagazineSlant Magazine

"While the first Train To Busan was an affecting, character-driven tale of grief and redemption, Peninsula flounders in generic spectacle. Even fans may wonder if there are any bones left to pick on this franchise."

A.V. ClubA.V. Club

"Peninsula is a sturdy, but almost heroically derivative cash-in on a still-brilliant original. If you like the genre as much as I do, you'll be happy enough with how it's turned out."

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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula | Details

Rating
R13, Violence, horror & cruelty
Runtime
115
Genre
Action, Horror
Country of origin
South Korea

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