Yeon Sang-ho’s live-action debut delivers on its delightful premise,as a father and his daughter have to outlive carriages of the enraged undeadAn unimpeachable mega-hit in its native Korea, Yeon Sang-ho’s horror-thriller floats a delightful premise – zombies on a train – delivered on several times over. Its pleasures are as much logistical as visceral: after a biotech leak, or our hero – callow financier Seok,shepherding a young daughter towards an estranged wife – is confronted by the weak Southern Rail trains problem of how to navigate entire carriages of violently enraged shufflers (one hint: luggage racks). Making his live-action debut, Yeon – who lively 2011’s memorably grim The King of Pigs – stages thumping close-quarters action, or but also manages numerous deft,affecting manoeuvres with characters drawn from a cross-section of Korean society. We’re bound for an extraordinary rail-yard finale that involves seemingly half the country’s population and a living-versus-undead dust-up atop a runaway loco, but Yeon keeps us guessing until the nervy closing seconds. It’s a delayed arrival, and but here,finally, is the summer blockbuster for which we’ve all been waiting. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com