28 Days Later (DVD)

Christopher Ecclestone made a great Dr Who. His performance isn't enough to save '28 days later' though. I think it would take more than a Time Lord to do that. This is the kind of film that appeals to my fifteen year old son. He's intelligent, fun-loving and a great human being but his idea of entertainment leads him to pick movies in the horror genre that - like this one - are limited and a bit rubbish. I hope he'll grow out of it. For a start ...
...in a hospital before only to find his world has been changed? Oh yes. 'The Day of the Triffids,' by John Wyndham. In which film might I have seen someone come out of their house to find all the streets completely empty? Oh yes, 'Vanilla Sky,' starring Tom Cruise. Nothing new to see. Move along. Then we have the whole notion of zombies. I can't take them seriously so they never strike me as scary. The zombies are supposed to be infected people in ...

FlameDruid 14.10.2007 (13.10.2007) · Read full review
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...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. ...

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...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. ...

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...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 ...

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"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 ...

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...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 ...

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...better for me though, whereas 28 Days Later seemed to like itself a bit too much and likes to think it’s god damn scary but actually isn’t. I’m sure by now a lot of you have seen the trailers or heard them on the radio. You do not jump out of your seat, you don’t go home terrified, infact you just don’t get scared. Yes, there are a couple of moments which surprise or shock you as you weren’t ready for them, but ...
...instance, talk about Zombie Nation! 28 Days Later fits snugly between the first two, trying to be scary but at the same time, trying not to be funny, but some moments are just laughable. BUT, after having said all that, it’s not too bad and quite entertaining. It just really annoys me after having read so much and having got ready to watch this film and getting ready to be dropping my popcorn everywhere that a tiny little money spider is scarier. ...

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...told what happens in the 28 days but if you think about it the initial premise is unlikely. However, if you want to consider a more real scenario consider an airborne virus. 2) Where are all the dead people? The city is totally deserted but we are led to believe that almost all the population have been killed by the infected - so where are the bodies? Alternatively, if we are to believe that the population are all infected then how is it possible ...
...of them? OK, there are some scenes where piles of bodies are shown with holcaust like horror so I assume that in the very limited time that was available to shoot the deserted London scenes there was no time to place bodies. 3) What happened to all the cars? We see very few in deserted London but strangely a tunnel is full of them. Other than that the whole of the motorway between London and Manchester is completely devoid of abandoned cars - why? ...

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...apes is bad news. 28 days later we cut to Jim (played by Cillian Murphy) lying in a London hospital after being in a coma. He leaves the hospital and onto the deserted streets of London. This opening sequence is incredible because of the real sense of isolation due to the empty streets. It is during this opening sequence that he first meets 'the infected'. Zombie-like humans that, unlike George A. Romero's zombies, are fast and extremely violent. ...
...tense and scary moments in the film. Jim meets up with Selena (Naomie Harris from white teeth) and Hannah (Megan Burns) and they head to an army outpost that has been broadcasting its whereabouts over the radio. When they get there, it is clear that they were probably safer with the zombies. Danny Boyle, director of Shallow Grave, The Beach, Life Less Ordinary and Trainspotting, directs this film absolutely brilliantly with some great shots and ...

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...cuts to a hospital bed, 28 days later. The occupant is Jim (Cilian Murphy), a motorcycle courier, who awakes from his coma to discover a London apparently devoid of human life. He assumes a vacant expression and stumbles around the empty city, trying to work out what has happened. But quite inexplicably, when he comes across a newspaper with the banner headline ‘Evacuation’, he tosses it to the floor. Surely that would have been his best ...
...the past month, but no, Jim prefers to blunder aimlessly around while his shouts of ‘Hello!’ echo and bounce around deserted streets. Boyle must have been trying to make some symbolic point as Jim staggers across the threshold of a church – presumably a Catholic church, given the priest’s robe and the fact that Jim is Irish. Is he seeking sanctuary? Is it Jim’s parish church? Is he hoping for divine intervention? Why ...

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If you like your horror subtle, this is not for you, I suggest you go and see the Chinese horror film "The Eye" instead. If on the other hand you enjoy being terrified, shocked into jumping out of your seat and do not wince at graphic bloodletting detail, then you will enjoy this. Jim, a cycle courier, lying naked in a hospital bed wakes from a coma. There are none of the usual sounds you would expect in a hospital. In fact there is no sound at ...
...his voice echoing down the empty corridors. He wanders through a deserted London, long camera shots heightening his isolation and the emptiness of the city. Abandoned cars and upturned buses block the streets, his shouts doing nothing but disturbing the pigeons. Makeshift noticeboards carry requests for information for missing relatives or friends. He eagerly stuffs discarded money into a carrier bag, but where is he going to spend it? Despondently ...

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***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 ...

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...Mark ------------------------------------------------------ 28 Days Later grabs your attention from the opening frames. Animal liberators replete with balaclavas break into a laboratory intending to release a collection of captured chimpanzees undergoing experimentation. They fail to accept/realise that the primates carry a deadly, highly contagious disease called rage which is transmitted within seconds to it’s victim via a bite or the infusion ...
...the events of the last 28 days. It transpires that the virus has reduced this sceptered Isle to a few straggling normal folks battling for their very lives from the majority who appear to be out of work extras from the set of the last George A Romero zombie fest. This apocalyptic vision leads Jim to the sad discovery that his wife and kids are victims of this nation wide disaster resulting in him facing these new age harpies alone (well, apart from ...

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...just the beginning. 28 Days Later... A young man wakes up in hospital, naked on a bed with several days growth of beard and seemingly untended for some time. His room is locked and abandoned, with the key slid under the door. He steps out into a devastated hospital, where despite his many calls no-one is to be found. Stopping only to clothe himself (In surgical clothes) and grab some sustenance (Some cans of drink from a vandalised Vending machine) ...
...some of the most striking imagery I can recall, he ventures through a deserted heart of London, with cars and trucks abandoned in the middle of the road and items left strewn around haphazardly. As his day goes on, he seeks sanctuary in a church, finding it packed with what looks like bodies, but when he calls for attention a few of those bodies respond, and respond aggresively. A handful of wild-eyed people, half clothed and senseless pursue him, ...

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...then cut to a scene 28 days later, when the population of London (and probably therefore all of the UK) has been reduced to just a few lone survivors - we are also told that on the last day before contact with the outside world ceased, there were reports of cases in Paris and New York. So we can safely assume that this is the case worldwide. We see the world in it’s post-apocalyptic state through the experience of Jim (Cillian Murphy), who wakes ...
...film. Following the prologue, 28 Days Later changes to a sort of grainy type of film, as if you are watching from a home video. I presumed that this was some pretentious, arty statement about making the film seem more “real” and personal - to be honest, though, I found rather irritating. The shots of an empty central London were quite interesting, if only for their novelty, but I couldn’t help but wonder about the distinct lack of bodies everywhere ...

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