Should i watch 28 days later

And it was an approach that resulted in a fairly entertaining movie, which did bring some new and interesting things to the genre.

What works in favor of "28 Days Later" is the storyline and the way that director Danny Boyle told the story. It is a fast paced story that is driven by a solid story, good characters and equally good acting performances. However, I am not personally a big fan of having fast, agile and running zombies. But since these aren't zombies as such, then I guess as an infected person it is alright.

But for the genre, then I would classify them as zombies, and as such running is a no go. I mentioned that the storyline is good, and it is the heart of the story, and the writers did put together a good story which is thrilling and entertaining. It was a thrill ride to follow Jim played by Cillian Murphy from waking up in the hospital and throughout the movie right up to the end.

The effects in "28 Days Later" are quite good, and that is something which also helps the movie quite a lot. You can't really have a zombie movie, infected people movie, or whatever this was, and not have proper effects. So thumbs up to the special effects team for their work on "28 Days Later".

Usually I am not one who pays much attention to music in a movie, unless it is awfully bad and overshadows everything else. But the music they opted for in this movie was actually good and did help to supplement the movie quite well. If you enjoy zombie movies and want something fast paced that deviates from the stereotypical how-to-make-a-zombie-movie recipe, then give "28 Days" a chance.

Quinoa 16 August The key to keeping the sci-fi horror genre alive in the cinemas, as of late, is to make sure the material and techniques the filmmakers present is at least competent, at it's average creative, and at it's best something that we haven't seen before or haven't seen in such a style or form. George A. Romero did that back in prime 60s and 70s era of film-making, bringing forth one of the most memorable trilogies of all time for the genre.

While many consider Romero to be on any given list one of the greatest horror directors I included , it is important to know that he too had his sources for his little independent film in , and after that was when he really got inventive, resulting in a masterpiece and a lackluster.

Director Danny Boyle and author Alex Garland know that if they were to cook up a yarn all too similar to Romero it wouldn't be satisfying. So, they've done what is essential to the success of 28 Days Later- they take ideas that have been in practice for many years, turn them fresh, and as the audience we feel repelled, excited, terrified, nauseous perhaps , and enthralled, but we won't leave feeling like we've seen complete hack work.

What does Boyle and his team set out to do to freshen up the zombie string? By making not in precise terms a "zombie" movie- you never hear "living-dead" uttered in this film, although you do hear "infected" and a new word for what these people have, "rage". Indeed, this is what the infected have in Britain, when a monkey virus gets let loose on the Island, and from the beginning of the infectious spread the film cuts to a man, Jim, lying in a hospital bed, who wanders abandoned streets and views torn fragments of society in front of him.

Jim soon finds a few other survivors, including Selena Naomie Harris and a father and his daughter Brendan Gleeson and Megan Burns who hear of salvation on a radio and decide to brave it out to find it.

When they do, it's a military outpost that's without any true salvation, outside of the various military typos. Like in Boyle and producer Andrew MacDonald's spellbinding if that's the proper terminology adaptation of Trainspotting, the craft is on par or arguably topping with the story and characters, and thus it has to captivate us all the more so to care about the plight of Jim and his companions.

The photography by Anthony Dod Mantle is striking, not the least of which since it was done on digital photography like in Blair Witch, the use of non-professional camera equipment adds the proper shading when needed , but also many of the shot compositions are different for such a film.

The editing by Chris Gill goes quicker than expected in the attack scenes, going so fast between the infected throwing up blood, the screaming on-looker; the new infected transforming within seconds, and then the results that follow.

Mark Tildesley's production design, as well as John Murphy's music, evokes haunting, evocative moods even in the more mundane scenes. And the acting, considering not many of the actors are well-known, is more than believable for such a script. I'm not sure if 28 Days Later will be everyone's cup of tea. Some of the horror and science fiction fans out there will immediately hear of this film, see a preview or a TV ad, or even see it, and dismiss it as phooey rubble borrowed from the video-store.

I can see their points of view, since I saw many similarities in Romero and some other films the military scenes reminded me of Day of the Dead, though the chained up Zombie in this was done for more practical reasons, and the supermarket scene is a little unneeded considering the satirical reverence it had in Dawn of the Dead. He has done, however, the most credible job he could in getting a different tone, a different setting in country, and of a different, enveloping view of the scene structures.

Overall, 28 Days Later is constructed and executed like most sci-fi horror films you've ever seen, and like not many other sci-fi horror films you've ever seen combined, in a sense, for a modern audience: fascinating throughout.

In the prologue, a team of animal rights protesters enter a laboratory to free some caged chimpanzees, which seem to be the subject of unfortunate experiments. At first, the cute creatures are caged animals yearning to be free. But we quickly see the chimps are diseased with "Rage! Maybe Mr. Murphy was getting ready for a bath. He gets dressed and director Danny Boyle's cameras follow him through a ravaged and deserted London. Murphy first meets a crazy priest. But his more important encounter is with super-bad Naomie Harris as Selena.

She's very cool The home video sleeve exclaims, "Hailed as the most frightening film since 'The Exorcist', acclaimed director Danny Boyle's groundbreaking changed to 'visionary' for re-releases take on zombie horror 'isn't just scary In fact, this has all been done before, and several times better.

Perhaps most noteworthy is the comparison of cannibalistic zombies with a group of men found to be infected with lust for women, during a long period without female companionship. Probably, the film is drawing parallels. Coventry 3 February Back in good old Great Britain, Danny Boyle proves that he's still a gifted filmmaker even though his short Hollywood career wasn't as fruitful as initially hoped for.

Especially the already classic sequence in which Jim Cillian Murphy wanders through the entirely deserted streets of the otherwise so lively and crowded London, guided by disturbing music, is efficiently creepy. The plot centers on an extremely aggressive virus that turns people into blood-crazed maniacs.

It's only 28 days since the virus was unleashed and the entire population is wiped away already, while a few lonely survivors desperately prepare for the total apocalypse. The last survivors end up at a military post where their lives are even in bigger danger. The tension and carefully built up atmosphere disappears and is replaced by tedious macho speeches and gratuitous brutality. The acting performances in this film aren't very spectacular but that's understandable considering most cast-members are debuting here.

The fact that this project was entirely filmed with digital cameras might be a nice trivia element, but I'm not too keen on this type of cinematography. Overall, Boyle's film is worthy viewing for horror fans but experienced fanatics won't be too impressed. Expect horror to be presented in a very different manner. Photography is excellent. The f-word pops up in about every other sentence. All in all A virus devistates almost the entire planet.

It leaves the infected locked into a permanent state of rage. Twenty-eight days after the initial outbreak, a small group of survivors trapped in London are desperate to find others not infected. They soon find that their enemy is not the virus, but other survivors. Little known actors makes this movie even more interesting. Three Course Meals tedg 5 January I expect I will stick with Danny Boyle no matter what, because "Sunshine" has changed me. I like what he does, circumnavigating zones of cinematic expression.

He does it in the jumps from project to project, seemingly exploring both the depth at the center of each lake and its bounds. But he does it within each project as well, working the overlay among what we seem to need to keep straight as separate genres. I'm not sure I really understand much about the necessity of genres.

Surely they are a narrative necessity: a film only lasts a short while and you have to insert yourself into it quickly, filling in all sorts of context along the way based on established assumptions. But there's also the familiarity of stories that goes beyond film, indeed beyond all art and forms the basis of action in life. Art merely acknowledges these stories and is allowed to play with them a bit.

Not too much, mind you, which is why combining and overlaying stories is so effective. And that's what Boyle seems to understand so well. Its more than just being capable cinematically. He seems to find cinematic means in the overlap of these genre inspired strokes. In this case, its literally three genre-strokes in three acts. It isn't life-changing, but it is a bit exciting seeing how he can shift us from thrill to adventure to revenge to romance without too many bumps. Well, maybe that last one was a bit rough.

But he takes chances. And he enlists his actors in them, so there is an overlap as well among himself, his actors and their characters. There was only one annoying thing here. When a character knows he is being stalked, and the stalker passes quickly in front of the camera so we know he is there but the character does not, there's this swoosh that first appeared in slasher films and is just lazy. The shopping scene references "They Might Be Giants.

When animal liberation activists break into the Cambridge Primate Research Center, they come across a scientist who tells them that to release these chimps would be insane. They have been injected with a test serum known as "Rage", and it's highly contagious and spreads easily and quickly.

Ignoring the warnings, one of the activists opens a cage and is attacked and bitten by a chimp and rage quickly spreads among the group The amazing thing with Danny Boyles's 28 Days later is that although it owes a huge debt to the likes of George Romero's zombie films, and John Wyndham and Richard Matheson's writings, it still feels fresh and exciting.

The characters, the acting, the story everything. Some of the best scenes in any zombie film ever. Like the scene where the infected raid the mansion or the tunnel. This film is up there with Dawn of the dead as the best zombie films ever. However, this film earns its R rating. Constant terror and threat. Very gory violence with lots of blood. Dismemberment, guns and sexual threat. Sex: 3.

We see the main character naked twice but not in a sexual way. Very scary zombie movie. Almost non-stop terror. Amazing movie! Up there with Day and Dawn as one of the greatest zombie films ever. Had useful details. Teen, 14 years old Written by Niacan01 September 5, Great Zombie Movie! The army men fight each other.

In the end of the movie a guy gouges out another guys eyes he does it to save someone and the main girl chops up her friend with a machete. The zombies bite people and rip them up. There are a bunch of dead corpses, and at one point the show a deceased baby. They also show the zombies vomiting blood. The special effects were great, and the zombies were cool looking. Read my mind. Teen, 13 years old Written by thebros July 7, Teen, 15 years old Written by Loranikas February 11, Not appropriate for 14 year olds!

This movie is trash! HorrorMovieRants horrormoviehaters. Teen, 13 years old Written by Films October 18, The movie was written by Alex Garland and follows a man who awakens from a coma to find London completely deserted, and he quickly learns a virus that infects people with pure, undistilled rage spread through the UK. A bigger budget sequel followed in starring Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner and Robert Carlyle, with 28 Weeks Later detailing an attempt to repopulate London after the original outbreak; the movie than follows a family as they attempt to survive when the virus reemerges.

While talk of a third movie dubbed 28 Months Later has come up now and again, there's still no sign of it happening; at this stage, 28 Years Later seems like a more appropriate title.

Both movies make for a great double horror double bill, but when it comes to 28 Days Later Vs 28 Weeks Later , which film comes out as the scarier experience.

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