I don’t have any answers Mr. R, only more questions. Happy to hear I’m not the only one who couldn’t get into this though, I read a lot of reviews singing its praises, and wasn’t sure if I’d missed something.

I did check out ‘Kingdom’, and enjoyed it a lot more. Plus, it has Bae Doona. I actually liked the cliffhanger, it caught me off guard and wasn’t something I saw coming, which for me is what a cliffhanger should be.

Though be warned that the short, six-episode run ends on a majorly anti-climactic cliffhanger to set things up for Season 2, which should hopefully be out in 2020.

I kept asking myself, was his plan to turn all of Korea into a zombie-plagued hellscape, so that the Chinese would no longer be interested in colonizing the country? Fair enough, but when the zombies sieged the capital, he seemed as vulnerable as everyone –– kind of a dumb master plan, if it leaves room for you to be turned into zombie chow. I could *maybe* see the potential in creating a ‘zombie moat’ around your country to repel potential invaders, but his plan shows no such foresight.

Which got me wondering: is there really no method to Jang Dong-Gun’s madness? Are we just supposed to read him as an insane despot who wishes to rule over a zombie empire? To me, the murky character motivations were a major weakness of this film, not to mention the inconsistent tone and attempts to wring pathos from the deaths of characters who have barely been afforded screentime.

Too bad it was kinda fun to see Hyun-bin bust out some wuxia-like moves on the zombie hordes during the climax (a mixture of martial arts and zombie action I don’t think I’ve seen before, though I’m surely forgetting some obscure Eighties Hong Kong flick that already did this).