Gang Dong-won

Lee Jung-hyun

Lee Re

Kwon Hae-hyo

Kim Min-jae

Koo Kyo-hwan

Kim Do-yoon

Lee Ye-won

Kim Kyu-baek

Jang So-yeon

Moon Woo-jin

Hwang Yeon-hui

Park Jong-beom

Joey Albright

Cha Si-won

Pierce Conran

John D. Michaels

Milan-Devi LaBrey

Christopher Gordon

Kim Tae-jun

Lee Seung-jin

Han Sung-soo

Ahn Hyun-bin

Kim Se-dong

Lee Se-rang

Kim Yeong-jo

Choi Jeong-hyun

Bae Seong-min

Bella Rahim

Geoffrey Giuliano

Yoon Yeong-gyun

So Yun-Ho

Jeon Ah-hee

Ko Dong-hyoung

Jeong Seung-uk

Nam Sang Woo

Han Hyeon-jik

Kim Woo-hyun

Park Sung-hyun

Yoon Jin-yul

Kang Jong-ik

Yoon Hyung-tae

Jung Do-ahn

Shin Dae-yong

Kim Won-jin

Kim Yong-ho

Seo Byeong-chul

Yun Min-gyu

Yoon Seong-min

Choi Jae cheon

Noh Nam-seok

Shon Byeong-su

Kwon Tae-ho

Kwon Gwi-deok

Yoo Mi-jin

Ha Jae-gu

Moon Sung-oh

Jeong Seong-ho

Kang Bong-sung

Kwon Ji-hoon

Yoon Hee-sun

Kim Hyeong-il

Lee Jeon-hyoung

Kim Gyeong-nam

Lee Sang-min

Kang Gyeong-su

Eun Jae-hyeon

Yeon Sang-ho

Kim Yeon-ho

Lee Dong-ha

Yang Jin-mo

Lee Hyung-deok

Lee Mok-won

Mowg

Kim Suk-won

Park Cheong-woo

Cho Sang-kyung

Kim Woo-taek

Min Hong-nam

Lee Hee-eun

Kim Hyun-jung

Hwang Hyo-kyun

Kwak Tae-yong

You Cheong

Kim Hyung-jik

Jung Hwang-soo

Jang Kyung-ik

Park Jun-yong

Ryu Yong-jae

Heo Myeong-haeng

Huh Soo Young

Jung Hoon

Kim Seon-wung

Train to Busan Collection

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Adventure

Action

Thriller

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Next Entertainment World

RedPeter Films

Vantage Holdings

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South Korea

English

한국어/조선말

Peninsula

dystopia

sequel

zombie

busan, south korea

south korea

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Admittedly, Yeon Sang-ho's enthusiasm is infectious and, while 'Peninsula' is never as exciting as its source materials, it is kind of fun in an agreeably dumb, unpretentious way. But if Sang-ho wants people to keep stealing from him, he's going to have to stop stealing so blatantly from others.
- Jake Watt

Read Jake's full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-peninsula-an-action-packed-but-brainless-follow-up-to-a-horror-classic

Lilleman

**Summary**  
I had decently high hopes for this, given it is my favorite genre and Train to Busan was pretty good. However, this was a major disappointment.

**The good**  
The plot, set four years in the future from Train to Busan and decent build-up with ok back story to most things going on. General atmosphere is also nice.

**The bad**  
Giant plot holes, some so large and obvious it is almost impossible to enjoy the movie.

Vehicle CGI, especially the physics. It is so bad my dead dog would make it better. To make matters worse these scenes make up for an unreasonably large portion of the movie. I got seriously angry watching it, and I love zombies and car chases.

The violently over dramatic ending. This is comedy level shit, even if the rest of the movie was good, this would have destroyed it.

Leno

Peninsula came amidst extremely high expectations for being the sequel of one of the best zombie movies ever. This movie is completely unrelated to its prequel, _Train to Busan_, so you can watch it even if haven't seen the first one. The plot follows another group who fled from Korea in a refugee boat to Hong Kong. Fast-forward 4 years, the surviving members of the group return to a deserted Korea to ransack the abandoned money. A task that should be easy, but Incheon is not as deserted as they thought it would be.

With a lot of action scenes and good visual effects, Peninsula failed in the casting of the support roles. The main actors are pretty good, but the acting of the foreigner (that is, non-Korean) characters is laughable. Also, parts of the plot and some actions scenes are highly implausible, to say the least.

However, Peninsula is still a very good movie, ranking high in the "Best Zombie Movies" list. It didn't live up to the expectations from _Train to Busan_, but perhaps the bar set by the prequel was just too high.

Manuel São Bento

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Train to Busan is one of my favorite South Korean films ever, and I firmly defend that it's one of the best zombie apocalypse movies of all-time, maybe even the best. Therefore, I couldn't help but feel incredibly excited about another installment set in the same world. It's not a direct sequel to the original's story, but it seems to be placed just after the pandemic began. Unfortunately, it ends up being a huge disappointment.

Despite the jaw-dropping stunt work and the extremely intense action sequences, the reason why Peninsula's predecessor works so well is due to its focus on the characters. By giving them a compelling development and a strong emotional bond, the zombie outbreak becomes instantly more effective because of our immense concern for everyone involved. Every technical element is dialed up to its maximum, transforming the film into an emotionally devastating, heart-wrenching story.

Yeon Sang-ho tries to follow a shortcut to achieve that same emotion of his previous movie, dooming this "sequel" from the very beginning. Every relationship feels forced, and the supposedly heartbreaking decisions/events are a complete target miss. Even the action scenes fail to live up to the original's level due to excessive CGI in ridiculous car chases. Every fifteen minutes, a major logical issue arises, and some characters are either straight-up dumb or unbelievably smart for their age/experience. Peninsula takes the realistic environment established by Train to Busan and fictionalizes it way too much.

Rating: C-

**Your  talking to a MAJOR Korean Film fan...Looong before Parasite.. Ive literally been mostly watching Korean films (FAR more than American content) the past several years... so I dont like saying this but this wasnt one of there better ones.. and I KNOW it has to do with the genre.... I am about as Zombied out as one can get...Train to Busan was a excellent film tho... Just wasnt crazy about this tho**

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Peninsula( 2020)

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Written by SWITCH. on Thu Aug 13 2020

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