Not gonna lie, the Train to Busan banner being stuck on Peninsula did more harm than anything in the film. I am adept at dissociating something from another thing, watched the movie and thought it was generic 5/10, then read the title in the end, remembered the OG Train to Busan, and the disconnect and dissonance clicking into my mind brought it down to 1/10. As a film, a mid heist is passable, as a sequel to a heartfelt and brilliant movie, a downright insult that disregards its predecessor yet wants to hitch a ride to success with it.

The thing that pisses me off about this movie is it DIDNT need to be a train to Busan sequel. It has literally nothing to do with train to Busan. They could of just called it like "dead heist" or something

The scene where an outbreak took pace on the ship. Should have been the entire movie. The tension between the US & SK soldiers was cool.

They should have just made the film take place on that boat in the beginning of the movie. Keep the theme the same as the first. Film being set in a mode of transportation, it's claustrophobic, No real safe way of escaping unless running the risk of other dangers. Idk... i feel like they had a great concept right in front of their face.

Really I feel like this one of the most disrespectful sequel for a movie like Train of Busan. As it’s looks at what the first movie does and threw it out and dropped five nukes on it. And said “Fuck it time for a fast furious fused with zombies.”

I put on Train to Busan at a family reunion at my aunts house and let me tell ya these are people who do not watch foreign films because they have to read. Once it was on though and some of the family trickled in they were hooked. It's such a good movie and it's a shame that this is it's legacy. Sometimes things don't need a sequal.

Instead of a heist it could be like a recovery mission of historical items or preventing a nuclear meltdown by shutting it down just to realise a group of survivors living in the place with some being previously worked there, but cant evacuate them due to it being "off the books" and can't attract attention to other nations

Holy fuck i remember watching this with my friends. I went in thinking "Fuck yeah sequel time" and went out thinking if we made a mistake because what me and the blokes have watched is clearly not a sequel but a skin walker that took a massive shit on the first movie and tried to pass itself on as a sequel as the desecrated corpse of the first movie is hastily shoved in a burning trash heap.

Personally, I don't think a night scene being blue is bad (to an extent, but in this scenario I don't think this movie did it terribly). Half the time a movie is almost pitch black and you can't see a single character if you want to watch it outside a theater (which is increasingly common). In my opinion, the brightness of night comes from the same place music comes from in movies, its to just give viewers a way to see what's happening.

It would be wild if the American train to busan movie ended up being really good and wasn’t an example that no one learnt anything from Let Me In.

I feel like Peninsula should have only taken place in that. The peninsula. Have it be focused on the family, or hell maybe even a lone character trying to survive the apocalypse. Or hell, have the main character be from Unit 631 who had a heart for the people in the games and decided to free one of em (say...a woman, 'cause all the players in that game were men), and it would just be focused on the two main characters trying to escape the peninsula with both zombies and Unit 631 on their tails. And of course it would end with the main character dying. And to rub salt in the wound, have the main character be a father of a daughter who ended up dying because of his work in Unit 631, as they were there to stay alive, but the brutality of the militia costed his own child's life. And THAT would justify his sacrifice at the end, bringing the woman to safety at the UN. Although rather than having the mc let himself turn into a zombie, he'll just shoot himself so he could hurry up and join his daughter in the afterlife. Boom. Coulda had potential, but didn't.

Glad to see you back to doing these kind of video essays.

Train to Busan and Seoul Station are fantastic I love them both, I remember Peninsula coming out and buying it on blu-Ray from my local HMV and planning an event evening (sort of speak) with friends takeout to watch it and boy.. the let down hit hard.. I think a lot of us checked out during the CGI car chase sequence. However that being said I recently re-watched it already knowing what I’m going into and I enjoyed it more. I guess the disappointment faded 😂

This movie really felt like a side story that the studio decided to adopt as a sequel

the idea of greed, spurring a team to go to a doomed/quarantined area, for a large sum of cash/goods is a cool idea. the idea of a a lost London having billons of cash/ ton's of gold in a bank that COULD be accessed at the risk of a zombie horde finding you. that's a freaky spooky movie idea, while the horde picks the guys off one by one a small group survives with one guy being infected and dragging the infection back to there land mass. that is a cool plot point for ANY OTHER ZOMBIE FRANCHISE! not train to Busan, that plot line is American zombie flick or novel. take "train to Busan" out of the title and it is just a generic zombie flick and it is just a sub par film

Fast and the furious presents Train to Busan: peninsula

I feel like the reason why it was so terrible is because they tried to appeal to American audiences. Once they saw how popular it was in the west, they said "Oh dang! Americans love it! Let's try to mimic the Hollywood movies so they like it more!" and overlooked what made train to Busan so beloved

The second I saw the kid I knew it would be bad. I don't understand how it got this bad but just like Sweet Home 2, sudden overuse of CGI, cartoonish everything, and just generally going off the rails completely seems like something that is unavoidable. It really did feel like a bad generic Hollywood blockbuster version of Train to Busan.

Man, i remember going to the movies with my friends and saying the same phrase "Korean World War Z" even with the army doing dog-shit!

Peninsula is very similar to the sequel to Sicario. Very tonally different, a lot more action, and significantly weaker from a narrative perspective.

I liked that the night scenes were bright enough to see what is going on though.

This Sequel is mixing up with Mad Max, Fast & Furious, And Ocean 11 with Zombies.

Tbh, I legit forgot this movie exist.

Love it when you upload a video my friend. You and Roanoke gaming keep my life together with your content.

I personally think that removing every single car chase scene would have made the movie muuuuch better. Don't even replace them, just erase them. Can't believe budget was dumped into that

Ngl just been listening to your zombie analysis for 5 hours now while I work actually gave me a couple zombie movies to check out that I didn’t watch because I thought they were gonna be bad

I feel like a good train to busan sequel could just be be the story on that evacuation ship, instead of Train to Busan, it's Ship to Hong Kong, if they want, they could even throw in a story line talk about US/South Korea political commentary and debates like they often do in other ealier South Korean disaster films, much like Remero's original living dead trilogy talks about different topics of different times in each entry.

Even thinking about it now, Army of the Dead and Pennisula are the same type of movie

The only part that I waited in the movie was the cameo of the rescuers in the end. Because one of them played by an actress from my country.

I just noticed how much this indeed look like a video game cut scene especially the whole mad max chase

Honestly, if they had a part of the script dedicated to showing that the girl was actually a professional driver/drifter BEFORE the apocalypse (and did some changes here and there to accommodate each character as "the specialist" of their fields), all those fast and furious scenes would be way better

This sequel truly is an example of money over vision. I loved the first film and this one really does miss a lot and I mean side ofa barn miss, but it does have some stuff in it that could have worked if they paid more attention to them. The abandoned soldiers being feral from just surviving and the captain wanting to kill himself with what most likely is the last of the food running out, who would want to try and control them when they are clearly beyond reasoning with. I doubt anyone assumed there were any survivors in the area with the completely taken over the area. I can understand the main character as a former soldier being so guilt driven as he abandoned people and lost everything anyway. The amount of stupid mistakes he makes does get a bit much and eventually leads to some of the worst reasons for the action. I also get them using little discoveries in the movie like the trapped zombies behind what I would assume to be the nearly unbreakable plexiglass/ partly bulletproof industrial floor to ceiling glass. The cgi is truly terrible for the budget, I have to expect they rushed the extra scenes with the cg heavy forcing them to barely get it passable before moving on to the next item. Overall if the movie had the extra time for the reasons why the characters are the way they are it would have been fine. I probably will watch it again some point in the future like I do with land of the dead, both movies not the greatest examples from there film series but because land of the dead gives them time to flesh out the characters it is actually a fun movie to watch since you can see the world from their view of point a lot easier.

Yea it was too fast and furious like for me. It was entertaining but didn’t make me feel anything. I feel like a good zombie movie has a more meaningful message more than human are selfish and evil. I liked the prequel and its twist towards the end. I feel like it’s the best animated zombie movie I’ve seen. Yeah the sequel dropped the ball on this one.

Peninsula had so much hype and so much disappointmemt

I watched the sequel with my family, which was the same thing that we did with the first movie, and we were all extremely disappointed by how generic and lacking of emotional depth that the first movie had.

Been waiting for this video for so long time,im really happy right now

I would like to see a movie that explores the evacuation by ship to Hong Kong, the ocean is a serious factor considering theres no place to hide if things get out of control. I guess theres places to hide on a ship but it still provides a great setting for a zombie movie, especially because the 1st movie was based on the outbreak on a train. If they used the same level of character development & stay faithful to the 1st in its style and writing, it could be an epic movie. They could add action by having marines to protect civilians & spec ops on board to protect the vips or something.

The only other movie which I would hold above Peninsula when it comes to an absolutely jarring change is Doomsday. It follows a similar route where they're so different from each other but, in the case of Doomsday, it's compacted in to a single movie rather than through a sequel. Doomsday starts like your typical outbreak movie but then it hard shifts in to an utterly bizarre Max Mad fever dream with an extra emphasis on mad.

Train to busan is in my top 5 as well. This movie is okay for a random movie if you don’t connect it to TTB. What do you think of the kingdom on Netflix? Probably my top zombie story / movie of all time

Another thing that they were Suuuper subtle about is the unit name. Unit 631. Literally only one away from Unit 731 (the imperial Japanese unit that committed some of the worst war crimes imaginable)

Amazing video man, I agree with so many points. Probably good for a drinking / smoking game with the homies though lmao. Keep up the great work!

YESSSSS,, FINALLY , FOCKING FINALLLLY Someone with a brain to talk about this Train Wreck Imo,, Why Peninsula is so different to TTB,, becoz it tried so hard to become Hollywood flick

Duuude i havetn seen your channel this active in a while! Ive been a sub since the why blank is so hard to speedrun, hapy holdiays and stay wow zach

When you first showed the bad rv/bus driving through a horde, I legit thought it was just a clip from some random old game. It wasn't until you brought it up again that I realized, that's actually in the movie lmao.

Love your video and keep up the great work

I did not realise that the mom is the one from the flash back and that the girl she was holding is the little sister (I'm guessing it's the little sister and not the older sister) I mean if they actually mention it in the movie that just blew over my head

Good to have you back

Hey! I remember the plot of World War Z….the book 😂 Thank you for making this; now I know not to waste my time.

I feel the whole film should of been on the boat in the beginning

Peninsula is one of those outta pocket movie concepts that were never suppose to be made

I was deeply disappointed in the second movie. Train to Busan was incredible, it was absolutely amazing so in a way I am not very shocked they didn't get to that level again but the disappointment was real.

“The love of money is the root of all evil.” that is the proper quote

I think the idea would have worked better if "The Peninsula" was treated like the Zone from Stalker. A lawless land where people go to make a name or escape to. Have the people who willingly enter South Korea go there for reasons other than money. Could be to escape a destitute life and make something of themselves, could be thrill-seekers, could be people wanting to reclaim the land. Any reason that someone could want to enter a dangerous place like that. (I know I'm bad at explaining stuff, sorry)

37:00 Actually, that's a somewhat competet way of using Chekhov's Gun

The amount of time you used to watch this video you can just watch the movie.

I love watching the chaos of the initial outbreak. Not zombie killing badasses years after the outbreak

I think Peninsula is just a sequel to give us more information about what happened to South Korea YEARS after the outbreak (timeline of Train to Busan).

I didn't even know Peninsula came out till this was recommended to me....I was so excited thinking the next Train to Busan was gonna be coming out soon

The boat scene at Peninsula's beginning reminds me of the second Japanese mission in WWZZ [the game] where the squad of four is exfil onto a cruise after helping survivors near the coastline board in time only for the zombie outbreak to occur there too. From my understanding, what made TtB a compelling narrative setting-wise is the claustrophobic space of the train and multiple encounters between the survivors and the horde of zombies that, frankly, was difficult to stop with what was available. A boat with similar stakes, character development and that balance between hope and hopelessness would've been a killer sequel to TtB and frankly, what it deserved to be.

Feels like a spin-off instead of sequel

that last hug moment had real anime ignoring time vibes. lol

OMG, I remember the Casting Call for one or two American Characters being on Backstage for Peninsula years ago! At first I was sad I didn't even get a chance to audition after applying, but then I was relieved to have avoided being affiliated with a disappointing sequel after the negative reception the lackluster sequel received upon release 😅 ....also, I cringe at the thought of Modern Hollywood adapting TTB 😬

The UN being useless is just about the most realistic part of the movie.

Whenever I hear this movie being mentioned in a conversation I double check the person on whether or not they actually consider it a “sequel”. I do not consider this movie a sequel at all, just some international movie with a zombie plot that got hit by a B-rated action script.

50 minutes no ads!!! Hallelujah

So happy to know that I am not the only one disappointment by this sequel. What the hell was that?

so happy i wasnt the only one disappointed. ill keep watching the first one over and over, it always feels like the first watch❤

Funny thing is, i watched the first one drunk and my brother told me the 2nd was a "train wreck" of a movie that i just never got into either.

Hey zack, ever heard of the l4d arg? There's a channel here called CEDA. It takes the background story and makes its own lore. It's really good from what I've seen so far. Maybe a video review for it? It should get more recognition for its existence alone.

I remember starting to watch this film but I don't think I ever bothered finishing it. It was just another generic zombie flick with no heart. EDIT. Thinking about it, this would have been a better film if we had followed the unit. From rescue troops, to abandoned, to surviving and their slow adaptation and deterioration into what they are in this film. Then if you want the redemption arc, have them find something worth sacrificing for,

seeing that World War Z was such a success is wild because all I remember is people being disappointed or angry that it deviated so much from the book. Also the annoying ass children and wife that called Brad on the phone even though she was told not too

What a M. Night Shaymalan twist. The one liners man. 😃😃😃

I didn't even know the sequel existed until KZfaq suggested this video to me...

Im glad they changed it to gold because at first i was confused why anyone would risk their lives for money backed by a government that no longer exists. Like it's worthless paper was what i was thinking for like half the movie 😂

Train to Busan literally makes me cry just thinking about it. I'm not a big movie crier ever, the only other time I've cried from a movie was iron Man's death in endgame and that was a Chara built up over several movies. Unfortunately peninsula didn't make me feel anything for it's generic characters

I think the scene between Hwang and Seo was meant to show that Hwang figured out something was going on and the comment was just a way to give Seo an out to make him think Hwang is just a simpleton but, just like most things in the movie, they forgot to follow up on it.

My first theory about Peninsula is that they will be transporting survivor on a ship that will be flooded by zombies and the only way to survive is go lure the zombies at the bottom part of the ship. It follows a family of 3 which was supposed to be 8 but they have to make rash decisions for them to survive. Only a father and 2 sons were left alive. This story is based on grief and acceptance of loss. This also includes how people is the greediest when it comes to survival. The story also has horror themed special sequences where they will be ensued with harsher difficulties considering that the ship they are in are going to 5 trips around Korea to save other survivors before going to Jeju Island where it is said to be safe.

I just came up with a better plot. So instead of making the sequel a "get some money, and come back." Heist. A group go back to south Korea. To get a sample of the antidote so that way, they can bring it back to the U.S., finish the antidote. Then mass produce it. Then dump it all over South Korea to take out the virus. And I came up with that in like 2 minutes.

they should have fleshed out that ship setting, it scarier with that cramped space

Wow what's the background music you used for this part? 28:38

The true quote is "the love for money is the root of all evil"...

the fact that someone infected managed to sneak into the boat undetected makes no sense, in the train the person literally runs in, probably seconds after being bitten, and a few minutes later she transforms, with the amount of people around and how long it would've taken for that person to turn, it is impossible that they would've gotten there in the first place, not only that but the infected never are alone, they run in massive packs, so if that one person got infected in the first place then there should be panic because the wall of infected is probably upon the ones being evacuated honestly, all they had to do to fiz this was make the evacuation far more dire, have people running for their lives as the infected swarm the pier, and have that one person who sneack through the cracks in a moment of absolute chaos, which lead to them turning in the ship and such

Literally the only thing I remember about this shitty movie is that it felt like some ridiculous car commercial, what the fuck was that van made of? Not a dent in it for most of the movie

Nice of you to give Sgt. Hwang a promotion to Captain in the middle.

I adored the first movie, i found it through your videos and i fell in love with it and became my favorite all time movie. Ive showed it to many of my frends and they loved it. When i found they made a sequal i was super excited for it, but after seeing it i was disappointed, there wasnt the same heart as the first movie did. They tried to make it too much like a hollywood action zombie movie with campy goofy villians. Im also not looking forwad towards the american remake, i just have a feeling they will ruin it

When I heard Train to Busan was getting a sequel I was hoping it would be a continuation from where the first one ended but it wasn't and that's kinda sucks

The scenes of Peninsula is good but the only thing that disappoints me is no character from the previous Train to Busan series appeared.

any chance you could do a review on I am a hero? its probably one of the best zombie movies I have watched or enjoyed watching hope you'd get an opinion on it

I loved the first one but never heard of this.....apparently thats a good thing

The movie failed when they made the zombies a secondary element in their own movie.

Finally!!! been months of no zombie nothin!

Some the scenes look like it was straight from a bad graphic video game.

They couldve done a split storyline covering the origin of the virus but nopw

The thing that does not work with the infected getting on board is not that the military processed people or not, it's the rate at which people infected turn full zombie. Based on the rules of that movie's univers, the infected would have turned before even getting in line to board the ship... That's what does not work for me. As for the "Train to Busan" banner, I mean... every studio is trying to build IPs nowadays... so it's a given.

I think what train to Busan did better then their squeals is the human element of the movie how people would react and act base on survival and even on the face of death we will still rip each other apart even before the zombies gets to you to the point you question what is more deadly the zombies or the people and is humanity even worth surviving

Yeah I was definitely disappointed in the 2nd movie, especially after the first one was absolutely amazing and heartwarming

42:33 realistic UN response

I got cleansing from this movie by watching Kingdom on Netflix with zombies in the ancient Korean.

5:45 whats with the cgi floating bob odenkirk head?

big fan of zombie movies, I love seoul station and train to busan they're both great movies. when this came up as a sequel, I was pretty excited but then I couldnt even finish the damn movie. I still didn't. This is an abomination.