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Good Points: Original spin on an overdone genre, great "new talent" actors, superb cinametography, excellent musical score, intense moments of fear, drama. wonderful extras- deleted scenes and alternate endings.

Bad Points: quasi-developed characters, ultra violent scenes-blood/gore

General comments: 28 Days Later is a new spin on a very old genre-zombie films.
In this film, Danny Boyle shows us the opening scene of a band of young animal activists breaking into a primate reaserch facility.
They quickly see awful experiments taking place-primates are forced to watch gruesome scenes of human homicide, theft, murder etc.
A scientist spies them and runs for the alarm only to be accosted by a masked activist.
The scientist implores the idealistic young people not to release the primates as they are infected with "rage".
The activists mock him and release the animals. The animals shred the activists in a bloody fit.
Cut to Jim. A naked young bike courier waking up in an abandoned operating room.
Jim, finds the key on the floor(someone had slid it under the door after it had been locked from the other side), dresses and sees what can only be described as a totally abandoned hospital.
He wanders the streets, finds his way into a church and sees a sea of dead bodies as he overlooks them from the choir balcony.
"hello" he says, suddenly a priest, bloody and twitchy, grunts and growls his way up to Jim. Jim realizes that the priest is not friendly and hits him, then runs.He soon finds that a mysterious disease called "rage" which infects the blood within seconds of exposure, turns humans into some kind of ravenous, murderous, monster.

The rest of the movie is dark and scary as Jim, his new friend Celine and a father/daughter make their way out of the city , narrowly avoiding the flood of infected. Trying to locate a mysterious repeating radio message offering haven to anyone in earshot, they drive for miles, stopping only to sleep in wide open fields for a night.
This haven is anything but. A contingent of British special forces(all men) have fortified a regal british estate house far from the main road and have defended the perimeter with heavy arms.
Power, and hot water are available.
Soon, the commander tels Jim that the only way to keep his men from killing themselves in this world bereft of life, was to promise them women.
Jim disagrees and is sentenced to death , his two female companions are taken away and the men plan to have their way with them.

I wont spoil the rest of it for you.....watch it, its' much better than any other zombie movie

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With 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle turned the great existential novel of a famous writer into a simple zombie movie, which is a real pity.
There was a chance to make a great movie of capturing the real human behaviors when the world falls apart and a new one has to be built.
The director only replaced the threat of the carnivorous plants for the zombies that infect every single living citizen by biting with a virus changing the nature of the man making them to be totally brainwashed, unreasonable ...

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28 Days Later is another grim vision of the future shown through film. I'm glad to say that it's a British movie, and it all works well bringing interesting ideas to the table. A modern classic, definitely recommended.

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28 Days Later - After animal rights protesters break into an animal testing plant, they release the most deadly virus of all time. Rage, a disease carried by apes. A shocking opening then cuts 28 days later when a man (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma to find that London is deserted. He is taken in by a man and a women who tell him about the powerful virus that swept England. The film then cascades into a rollercoster ride of disturbing scenes of a deserted London to shocking deaths of infec ...

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Synopsis:
"A powerful virus is unleashed. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them".

Danny Boyle (Trainspotting & The Beach) directs this blood soaked virus zombie horror which was released back in 2002. He h ...

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The film 28 Days Later has a lot of things that most british horrors don't have, and that is the ability to make you jump and get on the edge of your seat. On dvd you get to see alternate endings that are very good and a directors commentary.

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This movie, in my opinion, is a typical zombie movie. The only difference is this one takes place in both day/night and takes multiple days and the average flick of this genre takes place usually in one night.


As for the acting it starts off a bit slow but after about 10-15 when the story is set up and the virus situation is explaned, dialogue becomes dramatically better.


The action sequences are spaced out evenly along side the "stress-relief" scenes as not to be high tension all al ...

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I have watched this film many times and I love it. It had me stuck to my seat for the entire movie. Horror movies are my favorite and I have found this one to be the best I have seen. Loved Luke in the hat and army gear(Very Sexy). "If you have not seen this film yet then what are you waiting for get down to your nearest video store and watch it now"!!!

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Superb film capturing the terror and the lonliness of a post apocalyptic world. The deserted London was particularly haunting.

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Before i rented 28 Days Later i was told nothing except that it was ment to be quite good.
as i sat down to watch the film i asked my sister what it was about and she said that it was some thing about the end of the world.
this film is about an infection that got out when some poeple tryed to rescue apes from a lab, the apes where carrying the virus and it all gets out of hand and some one ends up getting bitten.
then you see a very naked, scfuffy looking man in hospital which is deserted, ...

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Wicked movie. Your not going to get another Movie that is mad like this. Great story and great camera actions. Can't wait till its out on DVD.

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28 DAYS LATER..........

Starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Ecclestone, Noah Huntley, Luke Mably and Ray Panthaki..........

Director Danny Boyle
Writer Alex Garland
Certificate 18
Released November 2002
Duration 113 minutes..................

Danny Boyle moves into the horror genre with this zombie film with a twist. Combined with the writing talent of Alex (The Beach) Garland, this had the potential to be a fresh and contemporary take on ...