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this is an absolutely awesome zombie movie, and is even better than will smith's "i am legend", which released the same year. 28 days later has a perfect plot, cast, and you must check this out. the only thing i didn't like about this movie is it ends right when the plane says for a helicopter to come pick jim, selena, and hannah up. you don't get to see what happens to them, and they aren't in the sequel apparently.
28 Days Later is not just a scary film, it has a huge amount of character. You relate to the characters and understand their actions. It's a chillingly acurate portrayal of what some people would do after something utterly devastating happened in a country.. with the threat of spreading to other places. It really provokes the thought "Holy shit.. what would I do?" Seeing the characters go through life with the threat of the infected around them makes watching the movie intense, but the infected people are not the scariest part. The underlying darkness in this movie is phenomenal.... often times, it's humans who should be feared.
Either you know about this film, or you don't. I won't waste my time with plot. But I will say, zombie fan, horror fan, or neither of those, This film is a pretty deep portrayal of the human pysche in a time of danger and impending doom. Its scary, its real, and its emotional. Funny thing is, most of the scary parts aren't from the Infected. But the humans themselves. Danny Boyle does an amazing job. And i can't reccomend this film enough.
Danny Boyle does it again! Danny Boyle redefines the average zombie film. With Great performances by Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris, the film takes a different approach to the run of the mill zombie genera. With its fast pacing and dramatic story this film completley outshines is predecessors.
One of this films greatest strengths is how it mixes its dramatic story line with terrifying scenes of despair and shear hopelessness. Cillian Murphy is also fantastic in the lead displays his ability at playing great dramatic characters.
What should be noted about this film is how fantastic of a director Danny Boyle is. None of the shots feel superfluous and the pacing is fantastic giving you periods of pure terror, while down the road we are learning about the characters and there individual stories.
The art direction is also fantastic some of the shots of London being deserted are astonishing. This movie is quite simply a masterpiece and should be recognized as such.
28 Days Later shows that George A. Romano doesn’t get to have all the fun with the zombie genre. I have tons of respect for the zombie flicks that came before this 2002 flick, but after seeing this picture, hands down this is a contestant for best zombie film. I love zombie films, (hence my BD name PaulZombie) I own as many as I can get my hands on and am always looking for more to watch. (If you know of any good ones message me please)
28 Days Later has been noted on a few sites as the most realistic zombie film; for the scary truth is this could happen. We’ll leave ones analysis of that statement at the door and focus on the movie.
I loved how Danny Boyle took how zombies are portrayed in George A. films and beefed them up. Romano films portray the undead as limping and slow folks. Not the scariest thing, considering a moped that has a max speed of 5 miles an hour could be a considerable getaway option. The critters in 28 Days are fast, thirsty and unyielding. The realism of the film I think is the kicker. This flick paints the bleak picture of the degeneration of social norms and corruption trends in which man follows when laws are no longer a binding contract. I simply can’t stop listing the pro’s of this movie, in fact I can’t think of any con’s. I suppose the only con I can really see to this film is trying to get a grasp on the situation. Waking up with no one around to find everyone is dead…kinda. Consider that my terrible attempt at finding something wrong with the movie. Hopefully that also makes it clear as to why I think this is the best zombie film out.
Though it seems far fetched to see a city overran by bleeding folks, if it were to happen I feel 28 Days Later paints the beautiful, grim picture of life with those without life.
Excellent horror flick. More of a zombie film although Danny Boyle denies it. But just the premise of infected individuals who spiral into an unstoppable rage to destroy the uninfected is truly terrifying. The film is original, unique, provocative and brilliantly directed. It's also the breakout role for extreme hottie Cillian Murphy and features some of the most scary horror films ever seen on screen.
I'm not always a British horror fan. But this is awesome. First movie I saw with the running zombies, and they scare the shit out of me. I never got the fear in 'Night of the living dead' as the zombies never seemed very threatening. Very good, could have done without the sequel.
another horror movie i believe to be way overrated...while this movie is good i think it wasn't as good as the dawn of the dead remake....Cillian Murphy is a good actor and so is the rest of the people but the movie had me blanking in a and out and couldn't hold my attention for long....
What's shocking is how naive people are to believe this is a zombie movie, when truly the rage virus is just something pisses you off to killing in anyway possible.
But I love this movie for all the bloodiness! Wonderfully put together and well thought out, definitely loved the killing scenes.
as perfect a zombie movie can be. decent and somewhat plausible zombie virus origin. awesome atmosphere, as soon as cillian murphy wakes up in the abandon hospital i instantly bought that the whole country was deserted and/or undead. love the cinematography, it's the only zombie movie that comes to mind that's actually beautiful. characters are well played, even the supporting actors are likeable. and the director is the man. danny boyle has been as consistent a director as you can be. and as versatile. i mean if you told me the guy that directed trainspotting was making a zombie movie, i wouldn't have believed that it was going to turn out this well, and definetly not as well as it did. love the zombies/infected themselves, they're ridiculously fast, and they projectile vomit their infected blood like some kind of human snake. all in all, my favorite zombie movie. most believable and established atmosphere of any zombie movie to date. and it was the first movie to have someone blind and kill someone with two thumbs through the eyes. LOVE THIS MOVIE.
One of my faves! This movie has everything, great story, acting, director, special effects, suspense...Definitely worth watching again and again.
Posted By: DeathRay87 at 2:20am, December 28, 2008
Awesome Movie truly unique. Best Fresh take on the zombie flick.
Posted By: AshWilliams95 at 9:33pm, December 24, 2008
This movie was awesome! I loved every second and it was as intense as hell.
Storyline: An infection breaks out in london turning everyone into crazed infected animalistic cannibals. A small group of survivors try to survive the infection but most of them fail and either get infected or die. 10/10
Acting: Really, really good. The actors really depict well the fear that you would actually have in real life. 10/10
Special Effects: Two words: Freaking - Awesome! 10/10
Best Scene: When the infected black guy gets let loose in the army base. 8/10
Ending: An epic finish to an epic movie. 8/10
Overall this movie was just pure genuis and I loved watching it. 9/10
Posted By: jakejeckel at 4:06pm, December 11, 2008
Not just the best horror movie of all time, the best movie of all time! First it scared me to death. The scariest part was the reality of it. It felt like it could really happen. For the final time, this is not a zombie movie. Zombies are reanimated flesh. These are people infected with a virus. Big difference.
Great film. Highly entertaining, and much more substance than many other films in this genre. And even though they are infected, and can run, they are zombies, just with a different origin than many other zombies in films.
Posted By: killskillz at 3:11pm, November 20, 2008
THIS IS NOT A ZOMBIE MOVIE!!!
THIS IS NOT A ZOMBIE MOVIE!!!
Zombies are people dying, and returning to life as flesh eaters! that has not happened in 28 films!
these are INFECTED!
get it right!
Posted By: BRLAXATTACK22 at 11:54am, November 20, 2008
This will forever be remembered as one of the best zombie movies ever. This film, unlike any others of it's kind, has a story that allows the audience to really make a strong connection with the characters and care about whether they will live or die. The feeling of the film is perfect, it is unsettling, it makes you feel alone and tense. Which is the how any great horror movie should be. It looks like nobody is around and from the beginning it lets you know that nothing in Britain would never be the same. Very good film, very entertaining. However i could live without seeing Cillian Murphy's johnson in the beginning....
This is no ordinary zombie movie -- The fast pace of this movie keeps you on edge !!!!!!!!
Posted By: Bloodymuffins at 11:04pm, October 27, 2008
This is a solid movie all around. While I was expecting more of a standard zombie flick going into the film it turned out to be completely different in its focus and take on the genre which was quite refreshing. It had more depth to the plot than just zombies attacking and the zombies were actually fast and intelligent for a change. I was drawn in by the characters and found that I actually cared about their survival in the British wasteland that they found themselves trapped in. This was one good zombie movie and it should be seen by all fans of the genre.
This movie rocks. This (and Shaun of the Dead) saved the zombie film in the new millennium and helped re-popularize it. It has great acting, a good story, and takes its own paths in the genre.
Every now and again a movie comes along and changes everything, and since this movie there has not been to many zombie films that have slow zombies. even thou the infected might not be classified as zombies they're close enough to be compared to. and as far as this movie goes it is a must see bloodbath that redefined horror.
Being contaminated, infected by an uncontrollable force like a virus, is a chilling thought. We can't even cure the common cold, and suffice to say would be screwed if a degenerating, cannabalistic disease was unleashed on humanity. 28 Days Later brings fear of infection into the 21st century and in post 9/11 paranoia. I love the children, and the music is gritty and foreboding. The film is more than a genre piece and can scare horror fanatics and suzie home-maker.
Great horror movie eventhough itd not really a zombie movie. Great suspense and storyline but i agree 28 Weeks Later is the better of the two
Posted By: Protecious at 10:36pm, October 16, 2008
one of the better zombie-related films to come out, very good vision, great characters and actors who portray them, very tense and sincere suspense, and this is one of the best horror movies that has a handfull of very well done dramatic elements.
Complete change of direction from Boyle after the glorious Trainspotting. Stunning scenes in a deserted London prove a worthy opening but later let down by the Christopher Ecclestone over egging and the cod ending.
good suspense movie, needs less stupid characters. 28 weeks later is a billion times better. hated the little girl and how she ended up being as bad ass as an infected. how did that dude who couldn't even climb all the way up a bunch of stairs end up being able to pwn a small battalion of soldiers? what happened to the infected chimps? go rape the gay cook if your that desperate for sex. and don't think that they just want to repopulate the country.... if that were so they would just rape the adult chick. it was an okay movie...... not worth buying.
Posted By: roostergore at 11:04am, September 28, 2008
What started out as a promising "zombie" movie quickly became a second movie of how man is once again truly the monster in the movie. Fine acting all around, would have never eaten those eggs. Ending is is a letdown. Overall decent movie.
A bloody brilliant horror film. Even if it's NOT a true ZOMBIE film. With above average acting, a well wrighten script and directing that leaves you wanting MORE. Danny Boyle took a huge risk doing a film like this and it paid off, I highly recomend 28 Days Later to any horror fan and even those who useuly are not fans of the genre. I give 28 Days Later 10 rage infected monkeys out of 28 rage infected monkeys. :D
I'm willing to say this is the movie that got me into horror. I was a fan of it before with some classics like Alien and A Nightmare On Elm Street, but this movie managed to change that like into a love. Also, this boosted both Danny Boyle as one of my favorite directors, and Cillian Murphy as one of my favorite actors. And while the ending is a tiny bit disappointing, the rest of the movie is incredible.
28 days later is far better than the sequel. I loved the story line. They weren't really zombies. Just infected with Rage. Amazing affects to this movie. The ending scenes were great. So much about this movie I just love. A definite 10/10.
"This film is about a virus, 'Rage' virus that makes the infected person mad with extreme rage and hungry for blood. Within 28 days one outbreak in London caused entire Britain dead or evacuated leaving behind a blood-thirsty infected population and a handful of solitary normal persons. Civilization came to a halt, society got destroyed while those limited survivors fight for existence among frequent attack by the vicious victims.
Sounds familiar? Then what makes "28 Days Later..." a classic among a horde of zombie/biohazard movies? Simply a touch of art that Danny Boyle is able to bring what others could not. The others focus too much on extensive, special-effects-controlled, gory action sequences between infected and normals, with heavy background music. But here there's always a tinge of sadness, emptyness, helplessness. Consider that empty London scene with that background music. We found out there's much else to show than just electrifying action or gore to describe the picture of life in this condition that these movies talk about.
There are mistakes and loopholes in this movie. But that couldn't weaken the otherwise tight-gripping storyline. The greatest achievement of this movie is to make one viewer stay neutral throughout the film, without taking any side in the first place. Because the virus we talk about is simply used as a metaphor. 'Rage' is shown as a social disease. That makes it a 'serious' film, not a flick. Every person, even the harshest critic of zombie horror movies should watch this." --shanfloyd, imdb.com
I watched this when it came out and i have to say i was pissed off. The movie seemed like a let down. Did not really seem gory enough of fun enough, and maybe intense enough for me. Then i rewatched recently and found it ok and the story was better. The faults i found in it the first time were better this time knowing the type of story it was. It is pretty good and most people will like this movie.
28 DAYS LATER is one of the "better" modern versions of a zombie film (compared to all the stinkers that have come out since George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) ..... I was glad to see zombies who behaved differently this time (symbolic of what we've become as a society - fast and brutal) ..... and everyone involved (from actors, special effects, etc) does a top notch job delivering a great film on a modest budget (compared to all the 100 + million costing stinkers we've seen released over the last decade) ...... my ownly complaint is where the things slowed down too much 2/3rds into the film (fortunately this doesn't last long)!
Quite possibly the smartest of the zombie genre. It has everything and more. Awesome story line brought to life by a great cast. I truly do appreciate the underlying messages as well. I loved the reason for the outbreak, very original, very scary and very possible. If the world were to be taken over by zombies of infected people...I could see it happening this way.
Posted By: Holdthephone at 12:43am, March 11, 2008
This Movie made me love horrors from the frights to the violence to the acting and filming it's just a great movie.
I love it soooo much I haven't seen the sequel is it anygood?
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I love 28 days later!!!!
This is what horror movies should look like. Not only did it make a zombie attack realistic, but it also had great structure and great acting. I was impressed with the moral and existential questions that were being brought up through the entire movie. While watching this movie I turned to my friend and said this isn't a horror film it's sci-fi because it is actually good. This movie has finally raised the bar for horror movies around the world. I hope that people try to make more movies like this.
Epic! That's all I can really say about this movie. I have never been a huge fan of fast motion zombies (seeing as it would be physically impossible i.e. rigor mortis) but this is really good. I really like how they technically aren't zombies at all thus justifying their speediness. Strong acting, excellent direction, nothing more to ask for. A little slow paced I suppose for all you people who keep going to see Saw movies. But that's not my business. This movie is great.
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