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So today I wanna review a film called
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
Peninsula is a sequel to the 2016 movie, Train to Busan
It happens 4 years after the events of Train to Busan
Peninsula is the post-apocalyptic
events after Train to Busan
If you asked me,
you don’t have to watch TTB first to have an understanding for Peninsula film
For me, it is a two seperate movies with a thin line connecting those two in same a universe
Yeon Sang-Ho returns to direct this film after TTB
Peninsula is a story of an ex-soldier with his teammates went back into South Korea
which is now call Peninsula
to retrieve a lorry full of US dollars and escape the relentless attacks of the zombies
and they have to find a way to get out of the place
What I like about this movie is
it has doubled the action-sequences,
doubled the horror
doubled the expansion of universe
All I can say is that the action n horror was doubled for this sequel compared to TTB
And this second movie more focused on the action and horror
TTB more focused on the message,
which we all remembered
but now Peninsula more focused on the action-wise and zombie world build up
One of the good things are the acting 
part of the child actresses.
Now the kids have a bigger role than TTB
The make-up and effects for zombies 
were great from TTB till Peninsula
Nevertheless, there are few things that 
I’m not quite fond with
Which is Peninsula is actually has nothing to do with TTB, it doesn’t related directly and
I can say that the first film,  
Train to Busan was a Horror Survival film,
but for the second one was more of an Action-adventure Survival  film.
The whole film fills with how they survived throughout the city of Peninsula
But it is not as scary as the first film
Infact, if you ask me, If I’m the producer of this film, I wouldn’t use the title Train to Busan Presents
Because when you used that, it gives the impression of a good film for the fans
and it gives hope for the fans that this movie is gonna be great as TTB
But than I can assure you that fans will leave the cinema feeling bad about the film
when I get to see it during premiere ni ght,
most of the audience were being honest about TTB is way better than Peninsula
The first film gives a great and positive  impact onto the audiences
But for the second film, it has less than what we thought
t felt like a mixed fruit,
at a moment you will feel like this movie is gonna be like Mad Max
ut after that you will feel like its gonna be a Fast & furious film
When there’s two n more seperate n different genre of movies
combined in a single movie, with a added zombie thingy, you will get Peninsula
it felt llike a mixed fru it from South Korea
There are few moments that are felt like too convenient and too easy for the lead to adapt
it reflects on the audience reactions where we felt like it was nothing happen
that was a few things I didn’t like about Peninsula
I’m not sure why they were so confident with their CGI
as from the first film, we can see that the CGI when the train collapsed, it was obviously be seen as animated.
but it is a minor mistake n doesn’t have a lot of screentime
but now the type of animation used for the train were used for cars and it covers almost 40% of the storyline
The car chasing scenes looks animated n literally you can see their error in physics
Indeed Malaysia was very far behind in technology for CGI compared to South Korea
But the thing is this movie has reached a bar where it is on par with Hollywood movies for TTB
so we as an audience were expecting more for the sequel, but we were spoiled with it
The other positive sides are
the main lead was still maintain its motivation and progress of character arc through out the movie
I felt like the third act and ending was quite draggy,  such a waste of time by showing a lot of car chasing scenes until you guys will felt boring towards the end
And also the firestarter of the film,
nd how the an ex-soldier agrees to get back into Peninsula was quite illogical thinking
Nobody would sacrifice their life for 
just an amount of money.
But nevertheless horror movies tends to make stupid decisions, so I have no problems with that.
I have a few suggestions for fans before watching this movie
If you haven't watch the TTB, like my friend Ayiep, he loved the movie without any regrets
But if you have watched the first film, you would find a little bit of a regret watching this Peninsula
Before I watch the Peninsula, I went for a rerun screening of TTB to refresh my mind about the first film.
and it has an extra scene connecting it to the sequel
My suggestion is, if you don’t want to regret watching Peninsula, don’t ever recap TTB first
There will be people saying that I cannot compare both films because of the genre has been changed,
but you can’t deny what the fans are saying because you have promoted with the TTB title,
which is a popular name worldwide, which now gives expectations from the audiences.
If Im’m the produser, I’ll be using the Peninsula title only without the TTB title,
and right after audience watched it and found out that it was connected to the TTB films,
here will be hype and people will talk about it
So yeah, my rating for Peninsula are quite low compared to TTB,
TTB i gave 5/5 stars
meanwhile for Peninsula I gave a 3/5 stars
That’s all for today, thanks for watching,
Peninsula will release on 16 July 2020 (Malaysia)
you can watch it and maintain your social distancing n stay healthy.
and don’t forget to watch Mulut Puaka Session with Bella Rahim aka MAJOR JANE in Peninsula tomorrow
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