Expectations are too high, leading to extreme disappointment

Meredith 2022-04-21 09:03:04

People keep telling me that the second part is broken, and I never believe it. After all, Gong Yoo's first movie made me cry how many tears! ! But after reading this, I found that the rumors are really not groundless. This can only be described as sitting on pins and needles, sticking in the throat, piercing the back, chewing wax...

The film has so many things to say that it doesn't make it clear. Traditional zombie films generally discuss human nature and animal desires, and this film really wants to express these, so it spared no effort to get a bunch of people. The group of four who went deep into the siege of zombies for money, the prisoners who were as crazy as zombies for food, the 631 unit who hunted zombies for fun, the villains who only wanted to deal with the hero and heroine when the zombies attacked the base camp... The whole looks like A pot of stew.

Furthermore, the screenwriter buried a bunch of stalks and didn't explain it clearly in the end. What is a wild dog? What kind of organization is 631? What is the organization behind Jane? Why didn't 631 contact Jane's organization? Why did the heroine lead them out of 631? The captain of 631 seems to be related to the heroine, what is the relationship? Seeing the end is really stunned...

And the motives of the characters are too unconvincing? Why is the male protagonist willing to participate in this action for money? The condemnation of conscience is not a legitimate motive, and the actions of the whole character are ambiguous.

Although there are a few scenes that still have some impact, such as the zombie hunting ground, when the prisoner is bitten by the zombie, the prisoner's panic and the audience's excitement and revelry are in sharp contrast, and in the background of the zombie siege, the human nature is more distorted and bestialized . It can be seen that the screenwriter and director want to express some human nature, but the plot can not keep up with the idea, the rhythm is poor, and a lot of loopholes have not been explained clearly in the end.

Hey, two stars for Kang Dong Won.

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  • Dennis 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    An ethical doubt: When life is not threatened, even for the purpose of stealing money, does killing zombies count as slaughter?

  • Edmond 2022-01-18 08:01:06

    23:16, just came out of the theater. Personally, I feel that it is not as profound as the first one. Without the former, this is a good cool film. But since it is 2, its direction and connotation have changed too much, from expressing human nature to the ignorant pursuit of visual impact, which makes it difficult for movie fans to accept for a while. In addition, certain miscellaneous political metaphors are a bit disgusting