Train To Busan review: The undead are born again
Echoes of George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead ripple through Yeon Sang-ho’s first-rate zombie apocalypse film In Train to Busan, its mild-mannered, office-bound hero Seok-woo ( Gong Yoo) has to get violent and resourceful, while learning that perhaps his daughter is more important than his job and that maybe, just maybe, people are more important than profit
Seok-woo ( Gong Yoo) , a divorced fund manager and distant dad, takes his young daughter Soo-an ( Kim Su-an) to see her mother in Busan as a birthday gift.
On board the high-speed train, we encounter two squabbling, elderly sisters, a gregarious bruiser and his heavily pregnant wife, a self-serving executive, a lively gang of teenagers, and a young woman with a bite wound, who soon pounces on an attendant.
Before you know it, a plucky group of survivors – including Yoo and Su-an – are attempting to hold fast against an encroaching horde of zombies. Will they ever get to Busan? And has Busan fallen to the same catastrophic infection?