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Since Yeon Sang-ho delivered an all-time-great zombie movie in , to say its sort-of sequel doesn’t quite live up to its predecessor feels a little unfair. doesn’t have the streamlined economy of that first-class horror, but it’s shooting for a different kind of thrill — busting out of confined carriages into a city of militant gangs, hordes of hungry infected and undead death matches. There’s a— a ringing endorsement or crushing disappointment, depending on your tolerance for that franchise’s “in-frickin’-sanity”), it’s still a big, dumb blast in a year lacking cinematic adrenaline.

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