Movies: Train to Busan (and its sequel) Peninsula

I don't know why zombies movies are so popular - I'm sure lots of people have come up with reasons- but,  bottom line, they're fun to watch.

I've been thinking about why I liked Train to Busan more and I think it's because, once you accept the zombies, the film is about ordinary people reacting in believable ways to a terrible situation.  Some are braver or more moral than others, but they're just people. You can relate to them. I cared about many of them and the ending was very emotional.  (Personally, I think it's one of the best zombie films ever made.)

In Peninsula there's some of that but many of the characters are anything but ordinary.  Extremely capable, extremely smart, extremely stupid, extremely evil.  I think I'm trying to say that I can relate to the people in the first film but in Peninsula the story and people are just a little too extreme to feel relatable the way they did in Train to Busan.   Not that Peninsula is a bad movie -  it's well done, well produced, well acted, a lot of fun to watch.