{"id":38861,"date":"2025-05-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38861"},"modified":"2025-05-03T23:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:45:03","slug":"peninsula-2020-presented-by-train-to-busan-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38861","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Peninsula&#8221; (2020) Presented by &#8220;Train to Busan&#8221; \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z050425zview_peninsula.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Peninsula <\/strong><\/em>(2020)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Yeon Sang-ho<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Yeon Sang-ho, Ryu Yong-jae<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun<\/strong><strong>, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-jae, Koo Kyo-hwan, Kim Do-yoon, Lee Re <\/strong>and <strong>Lee Ye-won<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Escape the Apocalypse<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A zombie virus outbreak left South Korea a wasteland.\u00a0 When the apocalypse started, Jung-seok, a Korean marine, brought his sister, her husband and their little boy to a military safe location.\u00a0 While there a man infected with the zombie virus made it through.\u00a0 When the man turned, Jung-seok&#8217;s sister and child were killed.\u00a0 Both Jung-seok and his brother-in-law have carried the guilt of not being able to save them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four years later, Jung-seok (now a civilian), his brother-in-law and two others are offered a job that will make them rich.\u00a0 Chinese gangsters say that a truck containing $20 million is located in the Busan peninsula.\u00a0 If the four can make it to the truck and bring it back, they are promised $10 million to split.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jung-seok and his three partners take the gig.\u00a0 They know the area is overrun with zombies.\u00a0 What they don&#8217;t know is that a rouge military and others have made the area home. And they don&#8217;t like strangers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m a huge fan of <em>Train to Busan<\/em>. I consider it a classic zombie movie.\u00a0 So you can imagine my anticipation to see <em>Train to Busan<\/em>&#8216;s writer\/director Yeon Sang-ho&#8217;s sequel, <em>Peninsula<\/em>.\u00a0 Sang-ho cowrote and directed <em>Peninsula<\/em>.\u00a0 Unfortunately it falls short of the original.\u00a0 I&#8217;m reminded of how I felt after seeing <em>Escape from LA <\/em>since\u00a0I loved<em> Escape from New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although <em>Peninsula<\/em> is a <em>Train to Busan<\/em> sequel, no characters from the original film appear.\u00a0 It&#8217;s another story set in the same world as the first film.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t mind seeing more tales from Busan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Peninsula <\/strong><\/em>(2020) rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z050425zview_peninsula2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peninsula (2020) Director:\u00a0 Yeon Sang-ho Screenplay: Yeon Sang-ho, Ryu Yong-jae Stars: Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-jae, Koo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,74,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38862,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38861\/revisions\/38862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}