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This is the sequel to the incredibly successful and extremely good zombie film. Trained to Busan, I love that movie it's one of my favorite zombie films of all time.
The reason I love Korean films so much is that they feel so different from what we'd normally see out of Hollywood. They don't feel like they're drenched in Hollywood cliches that we're so used to seeing. When it comes to Peninsula it feels like it's a try-hard Hollywood movie. Train to Busan was such a smart film and it was a very subtle movie even in the initial outbreak. They did their best to not show you any zombies, you just saw the young girl or her father witnessed something out of the corner of their eyes. Somebody running by the train window quickly.
What exactly was that? or a fire in a building. I guess someone's having a day you can kind of gloss over all of that, it built suspense really well. It made you feel like you were watching an outbreak happen and that was very unique for a zombie movie seeing that initial spark.
You can't feel that invested in what they're trying to do because in the first movie you have a father who's trying to get his daughter home to a mother that might be dead but they don't have confirmation and that's really really great
In this movie, they're just after some money in a truck. There's even a point in the movie, where someone who is important to our protagonist is actually taken captive by that faction of criminals but our protagonist has no idea and just thinks he's dead.
Where this movie really fails though is the CGI. This is a very digital fake looking movie, especially car chases. There's fully digital car chases throughout this entire movie, cars break really fast or crash through walls fall off of bridges. There's very simple shots of cars just going down a street that are fully CGI rendered. I really didn't understand why it's very noticeable every single time it takes you completely out of the experience.