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.

Ugh, how cliché and outdated of a trope is it for a movie in 2023 to be using the Covid-19 as foundation and focal point for its story.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.

Right from the first half, the zombies, the fighting scenes, the music are all bad. The actors didn't put effort in the movie aside from. Ji-Yeon Park character (Min Jeong).

I didn't expect the quality of the prod to be this way since previous zombie movies from Korea are great. It's like the rest are filming. For a university project. I was wondering if this was a sitcom cause it looks like it.

I also heard a sound effect from a game, Minecraft.

If you still insist in watching the movie, just bring some foods or drinks so that you wouldn't feel sleepy midway.

It would've been better if the first scene wasn't like that, worst transition from a zombie film.

I was so excited to watch this movie since I was waiting for it to come out for awhile now. 15 minutes into the movie I was telling myself that it will get better, and let's give it 5 more minutes. At 20 minutes in I wanted to stop watching but then I was so upset that I needed to watch the rest of it so I can write this review. I am not going to spoil this for those who still want to watch it but I truly feel bad for the actors since I like the actors participated in this movie. But the storyline is horrible, character introduction is horrible, way too many flaws and disconnections in this movie that are horrid and frustrating to watch. Now I don't even want to write or think about this movie anymore either so I'll stop here with just one thing left to say; I have to agreed with some of the comments on here that this is the worst zombie movie ever!!! Doesn't even deserve a 1 star but unfortunately there's no "0" option.

This movie is so boring. What a disgrace to the zombie genre in general and the horror genre in particular. The plot is bland, the character building is superficial, an ending could not be more boring. I would rather spend money to see Avatar 2 a second time than spend money to see this movie. This is an honest review, if you don't want to be disappointed or waste your money, listen to me. I didn't listen to previous reviews and still spent money to see this movie, I expected it to be a zombie movie worth watching but I was wrong, seriously wrong. I didn't listen to previous reviews and still spent money to see this movie, I expected it to be a zombie movie worth watching but I was wrong, seriously wrong. Instead I think you should go see Avatar 2, or Puss In Bootd.