28 DAYS LATER
(2002)With Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson
Directed by Danny Boyle
Reviewed by JB
Animal
activists free some laboratory
chimps whose blood is infected. 28 days later, most of
Britain's
citizens are murderous psychopaths. Thanks a bunch, animal
activists!
Shot on a relatively
low budget, 28 DAYS
LATER makes effective use of digital video and precision editing to
create its horror sequences. Like the shower scene in PSYCHO,
the
attacks by the "infected" in this film appear to be much more gruesome
than they actually are. The relatively unknown actors (at
that
time) filling out
most of the roles originally added to the realism of this apocalyptic
nightmare, though now both Cillian Murphy (BATMAN BEGINS, RED-EYE) and
Brendan Gleeson (GANGS OF NEW YORK, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF
FIRE) are more apt to be immediately identified by movie fans. The film
is overlong by at least 20 minutes and none
of the multiple ending included on the DVD are entirely satisfactory,
but 28 DAYS LATER still holds its own as a classic zombie movie even
while it borrows bits and pieces from the entire George Romero NIGHT OF
THE LIVING DEAD series. 
½ - JB
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