Peninsula

If your going into the cinema expecting "Train to busan" quality, you will be surprised. Its the typical sequel trap. They throw in way to much Hollywood wannabe actioncrap, try way to hard to include every genre into one, to pretend this is something else then it should be.

I really loved Train to Busan, it was an awesome and unique Zombie flick with high quality. Emotional ride with fear, stress and good story. Was glued on the monitor whole movie through, it was that good. Korea really made a classic with that one.

This is the complete opposite. Its plain stupid. Zombies seems pretty harmless cgi placeholders only meant to fly in the air and get hit by cars. U never feel any kind of fear och horror in this movie, its just dumb action with stupid lines. Story is crap, writing is crap, very low character development, plotholes, timejumps, stupid characters, actors who overact and make a fool out of themself.

If you take Transformers, mix it with Zombieland on drugs, add Fast and the furious... ehm... and then add World War Z cgi zombies on a budget then u get this. But worse then all those movies ofcourse.

The carchases are computer generated, and it looks like a PC-game. Also most of the Zombies are just cgi, ragdolls flying all over...and it really shows its fake. Its World War Z style, but cheaper ripoff. When the end comes closer, they even try to switch the pace from rollercoaster action to emotional cry drama and it just falls flat like a pancake... u end up laughing cause its so silly.

Plus, the plot armour on the soldier is of epic proportions, he cant miss, hits only headshots, zombies throw themself on him, but he got his anti-bite armor on so they cant touch him, he got time to think a few seconds now and then, even if he is surrounded by soldiers or zombies on every direction... cause they wont do anything to him while he feels sad.... boohoo....

Stay away from this at cinema, its not worth the money. Look at it some day at home when your really bored and want some brainless entertainment.

I'll make it simple.

If you like Invunrable cars, basically a car can drive through 1000 zombies and not even get a dent or brake a side mirror.

If you love Kids driving cars better than anybody in fast and furious franchise has ever driven

If you cant get enough of plotholes and Terrible cgi cars

I mean even sharknado is more realistic than this....

Loved train to Busan, sadly i Hated this.

Peninsula, the 2020 follow-up to the excellent Korean blockbuster Train to Busan, brings to mind Zack Snyder's more recent Netflix effort Army of the Dead, both films revolving around a mission to retrieve a vast sum of money from a city infested by zombies. Peninsula isn't anywhere as good as Train to Busan, but it's still superior to Snyder's bloated mess of a movie.

Set four years after the first film, this sequel sees a team of desperate Korean refugees hired by Hong Kong criminals to recover $20m from a truck abandoned on the quarantined Korean peninsula. When they arrive, they discover that zombies are not the only threat: the city is also home to a rogue military unit who prey on other survivors, pitting their prisoners against the living dead for entertainment.

The majority of Peninsula centres on the human threat, relegating the undead to a supporting role, the film feeling more like a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic movie than a traditional zombie flick. This fact seems to have irked many fans of the first movie, but I quite enjoyed the new approach. However, I do agree with this film's detractors who complain that too much of the film relies on sub-standard CGI action that make parts of the film feel like a computer game: I'm sure a digitally rendered car chase is easier to produce than the real deal, and a CGI zombie horde is cheaper than hiring and making up extras, but it looks terrible and pulls the viewer out of the film.

I also didn't like certain aspects of the final act: is it ever a good idea to lay down your guns when a villain holds someone hostage? And did we really have to have the happy happy joy joy wimp-out ending when the downbeat option would have been much more powerful?

Still, even with the video-game action scenes and the Hollywood happy ending, this kicks Snyder's film to the ground and tears its throat out. 5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

If this film would have been a standalone action movie, I would have rated it average, maybe above that. However it was marketed as the sequel to Train to Busan, which was very well done not only on the technical level, but also the personal one. Characters were complex, dialogues well written and the zombies, as in any good sci-fi story, were just the setting.

Now here comes this production, which is more like a video game from the Resident Evil franchise, without the cool monsters and special effects. And while it has its good parts, a third of it should have been cut in editing and the money used on decent CGI. Compared to Train to Busan, it sucks! And that's kind of weird, as the same team did both movies.

Bottom line: no matter how many enthusiasts want to play zombies in film, you need to have a better story for the movie to be good. This wasn't it.

90% of the movie it's a poor CGI, looks like a video game...