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Train to Busan

2016

Yeon Sang-ho

Gong Yoo, Ma Dong-seok, Ahn So-hee, Kim Soo-an ...

6.8

28,576

Horror. Action. Sci-Fi. Drama Sok-Woo and his daughter Soo-Ahn are boarding the KTX, a fast train that shall bring them from Seoul to Busan. But right at the moment of their departure, the train station is overrun by zombies which kill the train driver and several others. While the KTX is shooting driver-less to Busan, the passengers have to fight for their naked lives against the zombies.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Often chaotic but never disorienting, the movie’s spirited set pieces (...) owe much to Lee Hyung-deok’s wonderfully agile cinematography"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"The most purely entertaining zombie film in some time (...) A wildly fun action movie, beautifully paced and constructed, with just the right amount of character and horror (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Mark Kermode The Guardian	"'Train to Busan' joins 'The Girl With All the Gifts' in breathing new life into a genre that simply refuses to lie down and die (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Helen O'Hara Empire	"One of the best horrors of the year: innovative, effective and more terrifying than a rail replacement bus service (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Maggie Lee Variety	"As an allegory of class rebellion and moral polarization, it proves just as biting as Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi dystopia 'Snowpiercer,' while delivering even more unpretentious fun"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"For almost 45 minutes, Yeon Sang-ho’s 'Train to Busan' is on pace to become the best, most urgent zombie movie since '28 Days Later'. And then (...) [it] derails in slow-motion"
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"A solid effort (...) Executed with technical polish but with more lo-fi intimacy than the likes of 'World War Z'"
		Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"[An] enjoyably brutal zombie movie (...) [It] does a thrilling job with its zombie effects"

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