Pinsula (Korean: 반도 ; Hanja: 半島 ; RR: Bando; marketed internationally as Train to Busan Prests: Pinsula) is a 2020 South Korean post-apocalyptic action horror heist film co-writt and directed by Yeon Sang-ho.
It is a standalone sequel to the 2016 film Train to Busan, the second live-action feature film and the third overall installmt in the Train to Busan film series. The plot follows a former soldier who is st along with a team to retrieve a truck full of money from the wastelands of South Korea, now inhabited by zombies, rogue militia, and a family. The film stars an semble cast featuring Gang Dong-won and Lee Jung-hyun.
Pinsula was chos to premiere in the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and simply released theatrically in South Korea on 15 July 2020, while also being shown at the 25th Busan International Film Festival on 21 October 2020. It has grossed $42.7 million worldwide on a $16 million budget but received gerally mixed reviews from critics, who found it inferior to the first film.
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A zombie outbreak occurs in South Korea, where the governmt is overwhelmed in a day. ROKMC officer Jung-seok drives his family members to a ship. On the way, he counters a couple with a young daughter, but he refuses their pleas for help as the man is bleeding. Jung-seok's family boards a ship where an infected man turns into a zombie and infects several people in a cabin, including Jung-seok's nephew Dong-hwan. Jung-seok's sister refuses to leave Dong-hwan who has an infected stomach, so Jung-seok closes off the cabin while zombies bite her. Jung-seok stops his brother-in-law Chul-min from tering as armed soldiers arrive. Other nations including the United States and NATO contain the outbreak by quarantining South Korea.
Four years later in Hong Kong, a guilt-ridd Jung-seok and Chul-min are recruited by Chinese mobsters for a mission with two other Koreans to return to South Korea and retrieve a truck containing US$20 million; if successful, they will supposedly receive half of the money. The team arrives at the pinsula at night by boat and finds the truck. The team fds off and kills the zombie truck driver, making noises that attract more zombies. Jung-seok shoots several, and the team escapes.
On the way back to Incheon Port, the team is ambushed by a rogue militia, Unit 631, which uses light to attract more zombies, leading to the team crashing their vehicles. Jung-seok is thrown out of the truck while Chul-min hides in it. The other members of the team are killed, one due to the crash, and one by Unit 631 leader Sergeant Hwang. Jung-seok is rescued by two sisters in a car: Joon, a skilled driver who is adept at manipulating and killing zombies, and young Yu-jin. They return to their hideout, joining their grandfather Elder Kim and mother Min-jung. Jung-Seok realizes Min-jung and Yu-jin were part of the family he refused to help four years ago.
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Meanwhile, Unit 631 takes the truck to their compound. They imprison Chul-min, forcing him to take part in two-minute survival games betwe unarmed prisoners and the zombies. Private Kim discovers the truck's cash and informs Captain Seo, who contacts the mobsters and hatches a plan to escape the pinsula with the truck, keeping the plan a secret from the rest of Unit 631. Meanwhile, Min-jung learns from Jung-seok that the mobsters' ship is at Incheon Port waiting to extract him and the truck. She decides to steal the truck to escape with her family and Jung-seok.
The following eving, Jung-seok and Min-jung attempt to steal the truck. While holding Private Kim at gunpoint, Jung-seok learns that Chul-min is alive, and interrupts a survival game to rescue him, killing several zombies and Unit 631 soldiers. Chul-min saves Jung-seok from being bitt, and th Sergeant Hwang kills Chul-min. Min-jung fds off Captain Seo and saves Jung-seok from Unit 631. Min-jung and Jung-seok escape the compound in the truck but are blocked by zombies. In their car, Joon, Yu-jin and Elder Kim distract the zombies to free the truck.
Using their vehicles, Unit 631 gives chase, while zombies attack the humans. The family and Jung-seok successfully disable the pursuing vehicles, causing Sergeant Hwang to be overwhelmed by zombies. Captain Seo, who had killed Private Kim, ambushes the family at Incheon Port and holds Joon hostage. Yu-jin distracts Seo to free Joon. Elder Kim protects Yu-jin; but Seo mortally shoots him, wounds Min-jung in the leg and escapes with the truck to the ship. The mobsters betray Seo and shoot him. As he dies, Seo reverses the truck to keep the ship's cargo hold op, allowing the zombies outside to ter and kill the mobsters.
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The family signals a passing United Nations Chinook helicopter. The injured Min-jung stays behind to clear a path for Jung-seok, Joon and Yu-jin to escape the zombies. They safely reach the helicopter, where U.N. troops refuse to help Min-jung. Surrounded by zombies, Min-jung prepares to kill herself.
Jung-seok remembers Chul-min saying that Jung-seok did not do his best to save their family, and is spurred to help Min-jung. Min-jung decides to live, and she escapes the zombies with Jung-seok's assistance. The family, Jung-seok, and the U.N. troops leave the pinsula in the helicopter.
It was theatrically released in South Korea on 15 July 2020, and was also shown in the Panorama section of the 25th Busan International Film Festival on 21 October 2020.
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The film was initially set to release in theaters in the United States on 21 August 2020, but moved to streaming via Shudder and released on 1 April 2021 as a Shudder exclusive.
In the United Kingdom, it was 2020's fourth best-selling foreign language film on physical home video formats (below Parasite, Weathering with You, and Mulan: Legdary Warrior).
, Pinsula has grossed $1.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $41.5 million in other territories (including $28.7 million from South Korea), for a worldwide total of $42.7 million.
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In South Korea, the film made $2.4 million from 2, 338 scres on its oping day, the best total of 2020, and $4 million through its first two days of release. It also oped in Taiwan and Singapore, making a combined $905, 000 on its first day.
The film wt on to debut to $13.2 million over its first five days in South Korea, and a total $20.8 million (including $750, 000 from 45 IMAX scres) worldwide. It was the first time since mid-March that the global box office totaled over $1 million.
After t days of release, the film had totaled $19.3 million in South Korea. In its second weekd the film also made another $265, 000 from 51 IMAX scres in six countries, becoming the highest grossing local-language title ever for IMAX in Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam with $1 million.
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On review aggregator Rott Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 55% with an average rating of 5.9/10, based on 131 reviews. The website's critics conssus reads: Although a disappointing sse of familiarity threats to derail Train to Busan Prests: Pinsula, fans of the original may find it a thrilling ough ride.
On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews.
Rob Hunter of Film School Rejects said the film forgoes much of what makes Train to Busan so intsely affecting in favor of a somewhat more geric setting but said it's a fantastic idea blding a zombie movie with a heist film, and Yeon has fun with the concept.
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