Train To Busan was that rare thing: a zombie movie that somehow felt original, while staying true to the spirit of a much-bitten genre. It was precise, claustrophobic and contained, the camera rarely leaving the confines of a high-speed train from Seoul to Busan. It had characters you could really care with regards to’concerning’with respect to , going on journeys geographically, emotionally and apocalyptically; and in its undead, it managed to combine the innovations of the Dawn Of The Dead reboot (fast zombies!) with World War Z (swarming zombies!) plus a sprinkle of its own special recipe (limb-contorting yoga zombies!).###This sequel, set eight years later, comes, then, with a certain amount of hype. But this is quite a different beast: if Busan was the ‘outbreak’ movie, this is the ‘apocalypse’ movie, dealing with the aftermath of a deadly plague; as a comically staged prologue explains, South Korea has become a failed state, overrun by zombies and cut off from the rest of the world. With few surviving the first film, the merely’barely returning character, really, is the train station.###The zombies, when they come, are still a twisted pleasure to watch, writhing and unpredictable.###So, we’re introduced to a new gang: Captain Jung-seok (Gang Dong-won) is a kind of Korean Snake Plissken, sent on an Escape From New York-esque mission behind quarantine lines to retrieve a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous cash bounty. There he encounters the hardened survivors left behind, including the approachable’genial Min Jung (Lee Jung-hyun) and the decidedly less chummy Sergeant Hwang (Kim Min-jae). As with The Walking Dead’s later seasons, it’s the humans who are more pressing concerns than the zombies now.###Where the first film was a compact pressure-cooker, this is a far-reaching melting pot of ideas and approaches, and not all of them work. Political themes are flirted with, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding example, in detoken ating North Korea as a ‘safe zone’, but barely explored. Themes of family duty and honour feel cheesy in the wrong way, especially with the kind of slow-mo ending that would make Garth Marenghi blush.###Still, it definitely has its moments. The zombies, when they come, are still a twisted pleasure to watch, writhing and unpredictable, and returning director Yeon Sang-ho still has a great eye in/with regard to’concerning’regarding set-pieces. A sequence with a remote-control car to distract the horde is inspired, as is a death match with a zombie ‘rat king’. (Though hardly the first time the idea has come up — The Last Of Us Part II had a better multi-limbed monster.)###The energy rarely dips either, with a frantic car-chase sequence that feels more Fast & Furious than your usual reanimated shuffler — even if the overreliance on CGI over practical stunts occasionally lends it a more video-gamey feel.