| Posted by: Tommy Doyle at June 30, 2003, 1:31 am | | Topic: Reviews: 28 Days Later Forum: JoBlo | | When I first heard Joblo had given this movie a 4, I thought "What the hell? Man, from what I've heard, Jo has gotta be one hard dude to please!!" Now that I've seen the film... he's dead on with his views. (edit: I decided to write an entirely new review seperate from my one on the Current Movie forum, since as the more I think about the film, the more it pisses me off... so if anyone read my first one, my apologies). *MAJOR SPOILERS THROUGH-OUT POST* What a let down. Waited three months for this movie that's been praised up and down the ass, and this is what was delivered. I'm really starting to not like this whole jump on the bandwagon and say a movie is excellent because it's independent and is shot differently than your typical movie. The movie starts out decent enough. It's got a creepy atmosphere. It's got a few good jolts, a few good edge of your seat moments, good characters, good settings, some amazing shots of London completely empty (I still want to know how they got the permits to do that!). It's quite interesting because the movie starts out as a character driven horror movie, which is SO incredibly rare to come by. A horror movie, that has well developed characters, and still has some good scares. For a few parts, I was genuinely freaked out. The whole tunnel tire change scene had me freaked out... the whole getting gas scene had me freaked out. You kept wondering what was going to jump out from around the corner. Then the film takes a dive in it's fourth quarter. It turns into a piece on the morality of humanity mixed with an action flick. The only fucking thing it was missing was Steven Segal to complete the entire preachy scene. The remaining survivors manage to find a miliatry hold-out of sorts, with nine living soldiers claiming to have an answer to the cure. We start to get deeper into morality issues. The captain actually says something like "28 days ago, I saw humans killing humans. A week before? Humans killing humans. Two weeks before? Humans killing humans." Uh-oh... I'm holding my breath for the Steven Segal cameo. Then it turns out, the only reason these survivors were led to the hold-out, is so that these 9 soldiers, could fucking rape the women to keep humanity going... Uhm yeah... you want to talk about morality you freakin' scum bag? Fuck you you fucking knob... Don't preach about the nastiness of humanity, only to turn around and perpetrate it. And I'm sorry, but two women and nine men? If you honestly think you're the only people left in the world, you're beyond moronic to think that you're going to be able to continue the human race. You just want to get your peckers wet you losers. Jesus, it's only been 30 days... use your fucking left arm. Close your eyes and picture it's a woman sucking you off... So, we have the whole movie turned into a topical piece of morality issues. All of the sudden, the zombies seem to be forgotten, as it turns into a clear cut battle of good guys versus bad guys (and very few of the bad guys are zombies). We have an uncannily unkillable hero, really really stupid pathetic bad guys (who up until this point had managed to hold off hordes of zombies but can't manage to take out two now...), guns ablazin', chase scenes, a helpless victim (who at one point kicked more ass than Bruce Willis has ever dreamed of) and army fatigues... What happened to the good, suspensful, horrific, creepy, atmospheric zombie movie?? Beats the shit outta me... Not to mention the final scene of the movie. I'm sorry, but if you're ballsy enough to make an entire movie dedicated to how hopeless certain situations are, and how hopeless mankind is... have the balls to follow through and complete the movie. Don't give me this sugar coated wrapped in a glitterly bow shit that you stuffed at me... pathetic... Had such a good thing going for it. Too bad the last 40 minutes wipes out the entire first part of the movie. Overall rating... 5/10. Don't buy into the hype. A movie shot with a digital camera, does not a good movie make... |
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