From: manowarkills@NOSPAMnetscape.net

Let's get the major negatives out of the way. PENINSULA is not nearly as
well done as the original film. It is not even as good as the animated
prequel. The sped up car chase set pieces with the video game CGI are
annoying. Every time it came to vehicles racing around the abandoned
city I was jerked out of the film. Having said that there's enough going
for the film to make it a worthwhile watch.

Four years after the events of the first film (if you haven't seen it
yet, rectify that mistake immediately) South Korea has been abandoned
and left to the whims of the zombie horde. In Hong Kong the triad
recruits a group of Korean refugees to head back to the peninsula by
boat, find a truck laden with American dollars, and return to port to be
picked up. The easy peasy plan will make everyone millionaires. Trouble
is, the zombie horde isn't the only thing our would be heroes have to
contend with.

Unlike the original, Peninsula is more an action film than a character
study. Think Zack Snyder's DAWN OF THE DEAD remake V. Romero's film. As
an action film it works (despite the dodgy CGI). Just don't think too
much about the plot holes, poor actor choices and stereotyped characters.



Andrew

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