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28 Days Later ... the infected are here!

Advantages: Frity British horror film
Disadvantages: None

***Why I watched 28 days later*** As I true horror fan I always try to watch new film releases. Unfortunately for me my partner does not share my enthusiasm so most of the time I only end up watching the film when they are released on dvd. I love the original zombie style horrors so when I read a review about a new British post-apocalyptic horror film by director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach) I flew down to the video shop to rent it. ***The ...
...learns that during the last 28 days he has slept through the effects of the 'rage' virus. The highly contagious infection seems to have spread quickly because it is spread through blood and renders a victim helpless within seconds, leaving them as deadly killer, referred to as 'the infected'. Unable to take in recent events Jim is desperate to get home to his parents, but Selena and Mark do not want to leave the sanctury of their hideout. After deciding ...

clumsy221 09.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 28 Days Later (DVD)

Zombies walk not run

Advantages: top brit film
Disadvantages: none

...permanent state murderous rage. Within 28 days the whole of the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempt to salvage a future life, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing in the country threatens them. So when Jim(Murphy) Awakes from a coma to find a desolate London he wonders around looking for people picking up the endless amount of money and canned soft drinks that aligned the streets, until ...
...with the infected which results in Jim cracking a priest around the head with a bagful of canned drinks, From there he is saved by 2 saviours who then proceed to take Jim to look for his dead parents with disastrous effects. Who will survive whilst on the run? Will They find salvation? Who will they meet? And will they be nice? My opinion – This is not a zombie film pure and simple I know it gets lumped into that genre but it is not this is ...

allmarallnot 12.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of 28 Days Later (Limited Edition) (DVD)

30 Days of Night: derivative but passable vamp pic

Advantages: Action-packed and a few surprises along the way
Disadvantages: Highly derivative, very flat characterisation

...descend upon the quaint town, 30 Days of Night becomes a tiresome exponent of horror film stock elements - the fake-out scares, the red herrings, the strained love story - it's all there in great, despicable abundance. To further ridicule the viewer, the trite love story is interspersed amongst the painfully-slow moving plot. Even as the first human is slaughtered by the vamps, viewers, and moreover, gore-hounds, are cheated out of any excitement ...
...The real kicker for 30 Days of Night comes with its ending - in one sense, it's completely ridiculous, and will invite collective sighs among many cinemagoers. The subsequent payoff, however, is a smart, counter-Hollywood move that, as someone who hasn't read the comics, genuinely surprised and entertained me, and raised my opinion of the picture by a considerable amount. 30 Days of Night is a deeply flawed, unoriginal film, but manages to rectify ...

asdasta632 26.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of 30 Days Of Night (DVD)

28 plotholes later

Advantages: Effects are ok
Disadvantages: Overly dark for too long

Forget anything that happened in the original film because it won't be relevant to this one. Robert Carlisle is rubbish in this. But he's not to blame for the awful script & filming. This film suffers from all the problems the original did. Far too much filming in the dark or in low light where you can't see anything happening. Far too many fast cuts from shot to shot. The plague of the previous film is clearing and those wonderful Americans are ...
...formerly infected country but only in the cleared areas of London that have been declared safe. The plague is being researching (for a cure I assume) and the monkeys involved in that research are freed (infecting the animal rights protesters) allowing the plague back into the population. The fact that we're dropped into an attack right at the start and then shown the progress of the disease dying out in Britain, people being introduced back by ...

atytyut2434 04.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of 28 Weeks Later (DVD)

Nahhh.

Advantages: Good performanceby Robert Carlyle.
Disadvantages: Isn't directed by Danny Boyle, Isn't true to the format, Isnt as good as the original, slow.

...the plot, in the original, 28 Days Later, a virus has infected all of England, turning people into zombies. In a move which detracts from traditional zombie horror, however, the zombies are able to run -- fast. Before you can say 'typical sequel' the virus is under control and several hundred English survivors are contained in a facility supervised by the american government. Needless to say, there is a second outbreak. The first movie was incredibly ...
...directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) were the films only main redeeming qualities. Particularly the opening scene, panning the whole of England from a helicopter and explaining the transition between the two movies in text form, as a downbeat, stimulation bass track plays in the background. This awesome piece of cinematography was very much akin to the original, but promised far more than the sequel could deliver. The characterization ...

Mutalisk 09.10.2009 · Read full review
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