| Posted by: phatfreddy at July 26, 2003, 10:39 pm | | Topic: Reviews: 28 Days Later Forum: JoBlo | | 28 Days Later... basically looks like it begins right where Resident Evil left off. It's like a sequel. Plot: A man wakes up from his hospital bed 28 days later, and he realizes that the entire city of London is deserted, except for a few survivors, and oh yeah and zombies too which outnumber them 5 000 000 times to 1. It seems that a deadly virus was released accidentally into the population and it infected the majority of them, while the survivors had evacuated the entire city, leaving buddy with plastic bag all alone. BOO HOO! I had high hopes for this movie, since I absolutely loved the Beach and Trainspotting. The first half of this movie is snore city, I thought. No dialogue or action for at least 10 minutes. it's just the main character walking around London holding a plastic bag full of soda. Wow! How fascinating. The camera work in this film really fit the story. It was dark, and gritty and the sounds the zombies made were pretty creepy. The acting was pretty solid, since there were no big name actors in this film. And they all did a pretty good job. I liked the character Selina the most. She had the 'don't fuck with me attitude or else I'll kill you without even thinking about it twice.' She was also attractive too. There's a pretty good plot twist to this movie as well, which I thought proved a very good point. That no matter how fucked up the world gets where people need to rely on each other, humanity will always do evil things to each other even at the most desperate times. And even though humanity has evolved we still have primal rage inside us all. It's a pretty disturbing plot twist, but it did prove its point. The only real beef I had with this movie was that it dragged on a lot in numerous scenes. I don't need to see buddy walking around all of London for 10 minutes. We all get the point, everyone's gone, you don't need to show us for that long. 2 minutes would have sufficed. And I just found out recently that they re-released the movie with another ending which is supposed to be better than the one I saw. That pisses me off since I saw it opening day and paid full price for it. don't know why they didn't just release the very first day. Just me ranting is all. 28 Days Later was a decent flick except that it didn't grab my attention as much as I thought it would. Some of the camera work was very creative and original, but at some points in the movie it was very hard to see what was going on. It's not a movie I would watch over and over again. Wait I think I have to since there's a new ending. FUCK!!! 6/10 |
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