Gangnam Zombie

Yk, everyone's hyping for it like this could be the next all of us are dead or train to busan type of film but i'm so disappointed. In 1 hour and 21 minutes of the film i was hoping they got out the building but it's just it, not even a background story on why the cat became infectious also the flow of the cameras giving me "documentary" genre vibes or indie vibes. Then, the way his swinging his bat it looks nothing to zombies not even bruises or blood coming out of them if they hit it hard. I just noticed this, if you hear it on 7:09 minutes, you can hear the minecraft zombie sound. I don't know, it's sounded very alike.

First three seconds of the film and I knew it would be this bad. It looks like a low budget indie film. The lines, the acting, are all cringe worthy. It's so bad that, we ended up laughing from cringe and ridicule. How did it end up in cinema?

I had that high expectations in korean films so I did not bother checking the reviews. I even vouch to my husband that it's a Korean film so it will be great. Train to Busan, Alive, all topnotch zombie film. I expected this film will go high up the ranks.

We left the cinema midway because it's a waste of time to finish it. Should have rewatched Avatar instead, or M3gan.

I am a great fan for korean drama, they work hard, they really have good actors and writers, BUT, is that even a movie? I cant find any positive thing to tell about that.

Everything, literally, everything is so bad, slow, poor, cringe, ridiculous, i felt awkward in front of kids, we gathered to watch this, but we were laughing and skipping stupid scenes.

Man scenes direct to nothing. The zombies act as zombies'. Except that guy, he jumps, walks, screams, but they can't.. Where is the plot? What are they doing? What am i doing there?

I don't like to give law rate to any work in general. But i see no effort in that movie at all.

Korea. I still and will always like your drama, but i am so sorry, this one is out.

Lmao this movie sucks fr sorry for the word but that just sums up the whole movie lmao the acting of the casts sucks as well its either very shallow or over reacting :/ smh i was too excited for this movie to come out because its a korean zombie movie but it turns out not what i expected it to be :/. Y'all should just watch other movies/series this one aint worth of everyone's time. The zombies arent that good too and ye the make up sucks if someone's looking for a good zombie movie yall should try Rampant, Kingdom or The Sadness (zombie alike movie) these movies/series are worth watching that this new one :/

Ugh, how cliché and outdated of a trope is it for a movie in 2023 to be using the Covid-19 as foundation and focal point for its story. Really, really lousy and lazy concept idea from screenwriter Choe Seung. And I have to admit that seeing that the movie started out with using Covid-19 as the source of the zombie outbreak, I was on the brink of getting up and turning off the movie.

But with it being a zombie movie, of course I opted to give the movie the benefit of the doubt, despite the fact that the movie had landed a staggering 3.2 rating here on IMDb in this very moment as I am reviewing "Gangnam Zombie" after having just sat through all 81 minutes of it.

Well, I should have heeded the warnings and not wasted 81 minutes on watching "Gangnam Zombie", because it was a mess of a zombie movie, to say the least.

The storyline was pretty straight forward, a small group of people are stuck inside a mall while ravenous zombies are amassing inside and posing a threat to their lives. Gee, where have we seen this before? Could it possibly have been in 1978 and again in 2004? So screenwriter Choe Seung was just using old tropes that have been utilized in other movies, and to much better end results in those movies.

But wait, it gets better, because apparently some of the zombies, not all, grew vampire-like fangs. What was up with that? Well, I will tell you what was up with that. It was rubbish. And it was the worse sets of plastic click-on toy vampire dentures I have ever seen. It looked so atrocious and it just made zero sense why zombies suddenly would grow vampire fangs. And why just the key zombies in the story? Why not all? Zero sense from screenwriter Choe Seung.

What worked in favor of "Gangnam Zombie" was the sheer pacing of the storyline, because there was a lot of intense action with the infected zombies, and that definitely helped to keep the movie somewhat afloat.

The zombies in "Gangnam Zombie" were a mixed bag of nuts. First of all, it was very hard to abhor from the very oddly jerky and spastic movements that the zombies were making whilst immobile or shambling about. And the fact that the zombies were fast, agile runners just didn't sit well with me. I never liked running zombies. But it should be said that the zombie make-up was actually fair enough. It isn't the typical rotting and decaying zombies with massive traumas, but it actually worked well enough. Well, if you look away from the toy vampire dentures.

And the acting performances in the movie were good. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Gangnam Zombie", but they had some good actors and actresses on the cast list.

Right, well I can tick "Gangnam Zombie" off the zombie movie list now, as I have seen it. However, I am never returning to watching it a second time, because it was a swing and a miss of a zombie movie actually. And if you enjoy zombie movies, you might actually want to skip out on it entirely.

My rating of director Soo Sung Lee's 20233 "Gangnam Zombie" lands on a three out of ten stars, and that was because of the cast ensemble and the intense zombie action that dragged it up from a two star rating to a three star rating.