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Anti-vivisection activists make a very bad judgment call and release an experimental monkey infected with "rage". 28 Days Later..., as the title has it, bicycle messenger Cillian Murphy wakes up from a post-traffic accident coma in a deserted London hospital, ventures out to find the city depopulated and the few remaining normal people doing everything to avoid the jittery, savage, zombie-like "infecteds" who attack on sight.
Our bewildered hero has to adjust to the loss of his family and the entire world, but hooks up with several others--including a tough black woman (Naomie Harris) and a likable London cabbie (Brendan Gleeson)--on a perilous trip northwards, to seek refuge at army officer Christopher Eccleston's fortified retreat. However, even if they survive the plague, the future of humanity is still in doubt.
Directed by Danny Boyle and scripted by novelist Alex Garland, this is a terrific SF/horror hybrid, evoking American and Italian zombie movies but also the very British end-of-the-world tradition of John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids) and Survivors. Shot on digital video, which gives the devastated cityscapes a closed-circuit-camera realism, this grips from the first, with its understandably extreme performances, its terrifyingly swift monster attacks and its underlying melancholy. Deliberately crude, 28 Days Later is also sometimes exceptionally subtle. --Kim Newman
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A deadly virus escapes from a research centre and within twenty eight days the entire country is infected with the exception of a few survivors... Together they try to build a future for themselves...
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By T. Brookes
Format:DVD
This is what the British do best. True horror and suspense without all the budget blown on wasted special effects.
This isn't a popcorn movie, But it's all about atmosphere, Photography and eerie nervousness.
If you're like me, and get totally engrossed in a film from start to finish, You'll love it. However, if you like teen horror flicks or flashy special effects and edge of the seat action, I suspect that you'll find it boring. I loved it, But I much prefer British horrors anyway.
Hope this helps.
This isn't a popcorn movie, But it's all about atmosphere, Photography and eerie nervousness.
If you're like me, and get totally engrossed in a film from start to finish, You'll love it. However, if you like teen horror flicks or flashy special effects and edge of the seat action, I suspect that you'll find it boring. I loved it, But I much prefer British horrors anyway.
Hope this helps.
60 of 62 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
**This is the exact same version of the film that was released years ago. It's a Limited Edition, not a new Director's cut, which the Amazon Ad would imply.**
If you already own the original Dvd release of this excellent film, then don't waste your money on this edition. The movie disc is exactly the same as the one released years ago...5 year old trailers and all. The second disc has some incredibly short behind the scenes stuff and a couple of trailers that add up to roughly 15 minutes or so, a huge disappointment. Overall an absolute con if you were expecting an upgrade from your old 1 Disc Dvd.
The producers of this Dvd release should be ashamed of themselves. The fact they didn't even remove the old trailers is a joke. According to the Dvd, Master and Commander is coming to cinemas soon.
I would recommend buying the original release, unless you want to pay double the price for the different artwork and a 2nd disc full of pretty much nothing.
If you already own the original Dvd release of this excellent film, then don't waste your money on this edition. The movie disc is exactly the same as the one released years ago...5 year old trailers and all. The second disc has some incredibly short behind the scenes stuff and a couple of trailers that add up to roughly 15 minutes or so, a huge disappointment. Overall an absolute con if you were expecting an upgrade from your old 1 Disc Dvd.
The producers of this Dvd release should be ashamed of themselves. The fact they didn't even remove the old trailers is a joke. According to the Dvd, Master and Commander is coming to cinemas soon.
I would recommend buying the original release, unless you want to pay double the price for the different artwork and a 2nd disc full of pretty much nothing.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Most of the film was shot on a Canon DV camcorder. This is an exact reproduction of how the film looked at the cinema, and hence this blu-ray's picture quality is not at fault.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Good film, horrible picture quality
I saw this a few months back on Sky and enjoyed and when I saw it for £8 on amazon, I decided to get it, and well..... Read more
Published 1 month ago by E. Crane
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing Film
A really really good film which i thoroughly enjoyed, the start is somewhat slow however that only happens to put you in that little more suspense whilst you wait for the action to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. L. Sutcliffe
2.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent delivery time
Reviews at 2 as it is too scary for me. I only bought it for the final scene which was filmed at Ennerdale and we re-enacted it for our demonstration walk against a nuclear dump... Read more
Published 2 months ago by ppetlamb
2.0 out of 5 stars
Utter joke of a blu-ray
Let me say first that I am aware that 28 days later was filmed in standard definition on the 'prosumer' Cannon XL-1 DV camcorders, therefore I was by no means expecting a reference... Read more
Published 6 months ago by David Powell
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great film, worst blu-ray picture I've ever seen
The film is fantastic, but I'm not going to review it. I would give it at least 8/10
The blu-ray is the worst quality I've ever seen on a BD. Read more
The blu-ray is the worst quality I've ever seen on a BD. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Talwyn Hawkins
5.0 out of 5 stars
When high budget meets zombie film
There are very few zombie movies that are created on much more than a shoe string, watching this you have to wonder why... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Robert
5.0 out of 5 stars
Danny boyle's Masterpiece!!!
this is the fourth film from danny boyle, he's made some...interesting films such as shallow grave, trainspotting and 127 hours later, but this movie has to be his best so far, and... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. C. K. Williams
3.0 out of 5 stars
Could've Been A Lot Better.
Humanity gets infected,four survivors travel for help from soldiers and when they get there they find the soldiers are just wanting some female company,as promised by their... Read more
Published 12 months ago by mike1977
2.0 out of 5 stars
Day of the Triffids Rip-Off
Young man wakes up in hospital. Finds London deserted. Discovers mysterious behavioural virus has laid waste to the UK while he was in a coma. Happily he was in a locked room. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. Miles Robinson
1.0 out of 5 stars
Lazy British Dawn Of the Dead rip off
Having seen this film at the cinema when it was released I am amazed at the positive reviews it has subsequently recieved. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mr Ticko
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