No Zombie is an Island - He's a Peninsula

Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020) might not have been such a cool movie as the original Train, but it was a lot of fun.

It starts around the same time as the first movie, but with a whole different set of characters. Gang Dong-Won is Korean military, driving his sister, nephew and brother-in-law to a ferry so they can all get to Japan. On the way, they see stopped car with a man begging for a ride. He's bloody, but promises that he hasn't been infected. He has a woman with him, and she has a child and baby. He hardens his heart and leaves them. 

On the ferry, he hears that Japan won't take them and they are heading to Hong Kong. By the way, I've taken one of these ferries - Japan to Busan, actually - and it looked just like this: the passenger area has no seats, just a slightly raised carpeted area for sitting or sleeping. Of course, one of the men turns out to be a zombie, and he bites the nephew. Gang has to lock his sister and nephew in - only he and brother-in-law Kim Do-Yoon get out.

Four years later, Gang and Kim are living as undocumented refugees in the Hong Kong underworld. Korea has been blockaded and the world has given up on them. But a crime boss wants to send a team to Incheon to get some of the money that is just sitting around in Korea - the zombies aren't using it. and Gang and Kim will be part of that team. After all, the zombies are mostly blind at night, and only respond to noises. Stay quiet in the dark, and no problem.

When they get there, they soon find out that some living people still exist. First, there is a military unit gone feral, who highjack the money truck with Kim in it. Next, there is a little family unit: a grandfather who keeps trying to call General Jane on a broken radio, his daughter and her two children, a teen and a yougster who distracts zombies with her collection of radio controlled cars. SPOILER - these are the family that Gang left behind at the start of the movie. No hard feelings. as long as he can get them out.

So it's a big fight between the military, the family, Gang, Kim and the zombies. This fight is mostly played out with cars, using lights, horns, and flares to attract or distract the zombies. When they were on the ferry, I thought it would be "Die Hard with zombies on a train, on a ferry". But instead, it's sort of Fury Road with zombies. If you like zooming around in rat rods and random vans, will being pursued by mad militias and zombies, you'll like this too. The non-action parts are interesting as well, the guilt, the world turning its back on Korea, and the way the some survivors went mad, and some lived real lives. 

But mostly, the action. In conclusion, General Jane came through!