The discovery of South Korean genius for me begins above all with this film. More recently I had the opportunity to appreciate brilliant series, among which "Squid Game" stood out for its originality, but it was this work that brought me closer to the gripping Korean horror/drama.
The idea of ​​having a zombie epidemic break out inside a train train is effective, cruel and audacious. It is certainly a dynamic that works and scares, playing well on the difficulty of finding shelter, the only possibility is to make do as best as possible to overcome that atrocious ordeal. Siege, contamination, anxiety beyond imagination. Being locked in a moving vehicle, surrounded by infected and hungry dead, triggers a tension that is impossible to stop, indeed, the crescendo is a continuous escalation that leads to destruction.

A handful of positive characters will hold sway for a good part of the story. Among them, father and daughter, who get on that train unaware of the terrible fate that will overwhelm them: a girl with strange wounds on her body will land in that carriage, and shortly thereafter, hell will break loose. The man is an ambitious financial manager, very focused on his career, and decidedly less on his family. Separated, he is traveling to Busan, to accompany the little girl to the place where his ex-wife lives. Little Soo-an is splendid, human, sensitive. That delirious journey will help man understand what is truly important, and his nature will change until the moving epilogue. The inevitable and rapid maturation of a selfish character is truly appreciable, as in a short period of time he will realize what really matters in life.

The direction by Yeon Sang-ho is incisive and impeccable, like the special effects, which focus heavily on the catastrophic, giving the film an epic touch.
The choice to make the zombies blind and dazed in the dark is interesting, it will prove particularly useful in the tunnels encountered along the way, giving passengers a few moments of rest, while remaining suspended on a dangerous razor's edge.

  
This fast-paced dystopian horror film deserves more than one viewing, both for some spectacular apocalyptic scenes, which will remain in your memory in the brain in the long term, both for the attempt to focus the story more on the struggle for survival, to the detriment of the gore, which, although sacrificed, will provide a breathtaking backdrop.
Are you ready to buy the ticket for the rails of death ? 453 km is no joke, only the luckiest will survive, and it doesn't necessarily mean that they are the strongest.