28
DAYS
LATER
With
Cillian
Murphy,
Naomie
Harris,
Christopher
Eccleston,
Megan
Burns,
Brendan
Gleeson
Directed
by
Danny
Boyle
There
had
been
a
few
"human
extinction"
films
around
with
some
merit,
but
far
too
many
that
sucked.
Danny
Boyle,
director
of
Trainspotting
and
The
Beach,
made
some
serious
decisions
in
tackling
this
project.
First
of
all,
making
a
movie
that
can
be
seen
as
merely
a
zombie
survival
film,
and
secondly
shooting
it
on
digital
video.
Well
in
the
first
case,
even
if
it
is,
great!
I
can't
resist
a
good
zombie
flick
and
if
this
is
what
some
want
to
call
it,
fine
by
me.
The
digital
format
gives
the
picture
a
surreal
look
in
the
transfer
for
cinema
but
on
video,
the
high
definition
picture
actually
does
not
look
like
that
of
a
TV
programme).
A
borderline
video
look
in
fact
gives
the
horror
an
even
more
realistic
appearance
in
the
absence
of
the
film
grain's
artistic
look.
The
plastic
video
texture
is
minimal.
The
UK
is
laid
in
ruins
after
a
rampant
infection
turns
normal
people
on
one
another,
savagely
killing,
maiming
and
spreading
the
infection.
Jim,
a
young
cycle
messenger,
wakes
up
in
the
hospital,
having
been
in
a
coma
while
this
catastrophe
caught
on
over
28
days,
laying
the
densely
populated
London
to
waste.
Dazed,
confused
and
dumbstruck,
he
can't
find
a
living
soul.
Scenes
of
our
loner
wandering
the
empty,
desolate
and
littered
London
streets
are
amazing,
taking
some
serious
co-ordination.
The
infected
are
vicious,
scary,
deadly
monsters
with
an
insatiable
bloodlust,
a
single
bite
or
scratch
and
it's
a
matter
of
minutes
before
you're
one
of
them.
When
two
survivors
save
him
from
becoming
lunch
to
a
gang
of
infected,
their
journey
of
survival
brings
them
to
a
man
and
his
daughter
who
believe
there
is
a
way
out.
The
predominantly
unknown
cast
is
great
as
they
resort
to
basic
survival
instincts,
even
in
the
face
of
hopelessness.
28
Days
Later
is
an
amazing
hypothetical
scenario
with
chilling
scares,
moral
dilemmas,
gruesome
horror
and
practical
as
well
as
philosophical
issues.
It
is
an
absolute
disgrace
that
this
great
piece
of
cinema
received
such
a
short
theatrical
run
in
South
Africa.
Hopefully
more
people
will
get
to
witness
this
chilling
movie
on
its
video
&
DVD
release.
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