28 Days Later (DVD)

Advantages: Great script, direction and performances
Disadvantages: If you're expecting a horror film you may be dissapointed

...is their only goal. 28 days later… Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes in central London hospital bed to find the building and the whole of London deserted. Almost the entire population is dead or infected. After finding fellow survivors Selena (Naomi Harris), Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and Hannah (Megan Burns) Jim and his new found companions set off in search of sanctuary. Danny Boyle is one of Britain’s most celebrated directors. After his phenomenal success ...
...British cinema, Empire declaring “Come in Hollywood, your time is up”. Then came the lukewarm reception to his next two major films ‘A Life Less Ordinary’ and ‘The Beach’. They were a step too far from the films that had made Boyle’s name, both ‘Trainspotting’ and his earlier work ‘Shallow Grave’ were unmistakably British films. His follow ups though had Hollywood stars and production values and Boyle’s voice was lost under the noise and glitter. ... Read review

Advantages: Good picture for a small screen
Disadvantages: its a small screen, sound quality

...Boyle (Shallow Grave and Train-spotting). 28 days later centres on the popular science fiction (and Zombie film) subject of the Post Apocalyptic Survivor, although the usual catalyst of the apocalypse tends to be nuclear war in this movie it is disease. The movie starts out with us witnessing three animal rights activists breaking into a lab to "liberate" the imprisoned animals. Once inside they learn that the Chimps are infected with a virus called ...
...rage victims. Whiz forward 28 days and we see Jim (Cillian Murphy) wake up in a hospital bed to find the building devoid of humans, in fact it seems that London in its entirety is devoid of humans. Dazed, Jim walks the deserted streets and is eventually saved from a gang of the "infected" as they are fondly known, by Selena (Naomie Harris) and Mark (Noah Huntley) who explain exactly what has happened since he was in the hospital, and it's all bleak. ... Read review

Advantages: So scary I couldnt breathe
Disadvantages: Err, see above?

...problem by the end! 28 Days later. What would happen if a bunch of animal rights activists ignored a scientist’s warning not to release the monkeys in his Cambridge laboratory because they have been infected with ‘Rage’, a highly infectious disease that can be spread to humans through blood or saliva and will cause them to kill madly and indiscriminantly? Bad things, that’s what. As you can probably guess, the above is exactly ...
...The film then skips to 28 days later. A man is just waking up in hospital. Half his head is shaved with a sticthed wound. We assume he has at some point suffered head injuries. Looking around the man is confused. Everything is deathly silent, there appears to be no-one around and he is naked (mmm, nice!), wired up to all kinds of drips and machines that are either empty or apparently turned off. He rips them out and stands, unsteadily. More than ... Read review

Advantages: it is a quality
Disadvantages: it is not a brand new film

"28 years later" by Danny Boyle Most definitely, this is a scariest film seen recently. Something meant to become a cult film. A proven Danny Boyle’s geniality…."It will have you on the edge of your seat"…." So real, so possible, so simple...so Boyle this is. Clear and simple, scary and upsetting. Most definitely there are different kind of horrors. The sort of ‘Scream’ horrors and the second kind more warning kind about ...
...not very careful. With horrors such "28 days later" we are always more careful because it suppose the reality that might happen. However, I think that this is sort of female horror. The kind of movies that women like, because it has the background story that allows a little bit more than just horror, in the company of so simple, so scary, so realistic, so typical Boyle sense of humor. For example, when one of the survivals suggests dropping buckets ... Read review

Advantages: Superb, exciting, bloody, poignant, beautifully made, well acted and Directed.
Disadvantages: Digital film may be cheaper Mr Boyle, but that's only because it looks like a home video. Please stop using it.

...food that was Resident Evil, 28 Days Later is a breath of fresh air to a worn out genre and much needed proof that the British film industry is anything but dead. 28 Days Later is rated 18, which in this case is a good sign as it shows that the film makers are more concerned with making the film they envisioned, rather than the soulless product of a committee that want to keep it rated 15 in order to maximise profits. You would be forgiven for thinking ...
...tried to kill it. 28 Days Later blessedly erases all memories of that monstrosity and replaces it with an assured Horror/Thriller that adds something new to the genre. The plot is best described as Outbreak+ Night Of The Living Dead + Day Of The Triffids - Hollywood + Britain = 28 Days Later. It begins with animal activists trying to free a lab full of rage infected monkeys, a technician warns them but they don’t heed his advice and free the animals ... Read review

Advantages: A very good storyline
Disadvantages: Cillian Murphy is in it!

...28 DAYS LATER is a sci-fi horror movie directed by Danny Boyle (who interestingly directed a couple of episodes of TV's INSPECTOR MORSE early in his career!). The story follows Jim who, waking up from a coma, finds that a virus has turned the population of the UK into psychopaths - they come across very much like zombies and remind me of those in George A. Romero's zombie "?Of The Dead" series. The story is very derivative, not just of zombie movies, but also of classic science fiction, such as John Wyndham's DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. However this is a version updated for the 21st century (the film was originally released in 2002). The storylines is gripping, and if you can cope with some horror, scares, and some gore, then this is definitely a film worth seeking out. In fact, the storyline is so gripping, that I completely forgot that... Read review

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Advantages: one of the best movies to come out of the UK, good cast/plot
Disadvantages: none

...direction, they have movement, they charge at them and hence a true test of survival and nerves for the terrorfied. On the DVD, there are some extras -an alternative ending at the end of the film entitled "What If...", a third ending which wasn't shot - only shown on storyboards, deleted scenes, audio commentary, a "Making Of..." and many more. 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".... Read review

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Advantages: Danny Boyle - fantastic Mancunian director
Disadvantages: Don't expect a zombie movie... they run!

...Once again Danny Boyle has made another masterpiece on a fairly low budget, he did it with Shallow Grave, he made my countries most famous cinematic export with Trainspotting... Sunshine is at the cinema at the moment (once again with Cillian Murphy), but I don't think he's ever made a better film than 28 Days Later... This film was released here on November 1 2002, a day too late for my liking... 29 days after my birthday :-P Defining the movie into one specific genre is difficult, is it a horror? Well humans killing humans, so not really... more a thriller I'd say, although where IMDB get "Sci-Fi" from I have no idea! We basically have a film about a group of civilians brought together through fear more than anything else setting out of London to find safety from the "Infected", along the way there'll be a few deaths in their... Read review

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