Imagine you wake up from a coma spanning 4 weeks to find you've been locked in a hospital room, with a key by the door. As you open the door, instead of finding doctors, nurses, patients rushing around the corridors you see noone. Nothing. You hear no sounds whatsoever.
Then you leave the hospital to find the streets of London deserted and a mess. Posters of missing people litter the walls and notice boards while the papers mention of a viral outbreak and rioting everywhere across the UK.
Imagine a group of crazed people then chasing after you, who do not talk, or negotiate, only charge at you - do you run? hide? try to find a cure?
This is the dilemma for Jim - a bicycle courier who was knocked down and awakes to find that life as he knew it is no more. While running from his first confrontation with the infected, he runs into a few others who are trying to survive the aftermath as well. However as one of them is believed to be infected after another battle, they find a father and daughter in a tower block taking shelter. The father believes he heard a call on the radio for survivors to come to Manchester where the army have a secure blockade and from there they make the long journey for protection whilest not knowing if the army group had survived, or if the world outside the UK is safe and well from the virus as well.
The movie has a few known actors in it - all British as its set and produced entirely in the UK. Cillian Murphy plays the lead role Jim while Naomie Harris plays one of the first survivors he meets - Selena. Brendan Gleeson makes an appearance as the father Frank while a young Megan Burns plays Hannah, his daughter. Also we meet Christopher Ecclestone in a pre-Doctor Who role as Major Henry West, acting head of the small army brigade in Manchester.

Compared to other "zombie" films (though this is more about viruses than death), I feel that 28 Days Later is one of the best out there, equal to George Romero's "Dead" Series. It creates terror in a new way to other films as instead of zombies shuffling along, swarming the characters from every direction, they have movement, they charge at them and hence a true test of survival and nerves for the terrorfied.

I loved this film, its tells a story of modern day apocalyptic survival rather than blow a budget on a gore-fest and base a story around mass blood. For those who love the whole "horror survival" genre then this is a film for you. A perfect movie to watch before you go off to see the sequel, "28 Weeks Later".