I think Bill's got a point. If you look at the whole life of the planet, we, you know, man, has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.
A review by Mike Shea Movie Rating: ( * * * * · ) DVD Rating: ( * * * * · )
Dawn of the Dead is one of the best zombie movies because it doesn't focus on the zombies, but on the people who must deal with them. 28 Days Later understands this lesson well. The zombies are a vehicle for a story about people. 28 Days Later is an excellent horror apocalypse science fiction flick and should not be missed.
28 Days Later is simple and powerful. It was made on eight million dollars or fifteen times less than Pirates of teh Caribbean's one hundred twenty five million dollar budget. What 28 Days Later lacks in effects it makes up for with a thought provoking story and excellent acting. There are a few arm-chair gripping jumpy moments but it is the brains and detail of this movie that make it what it is. The acting is top notch and the sets, for their very limited budget, are an excellent vehicle for a great dark story.
The DVD of 28 Days Later is quite good except for a sub-par picture. The film was all shot with digital cameras instead of film but I do not know if that was the cause for the halo effect of the over-done edge enhancement. The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound was fine and a directors commentary is included as well as a slew of deleted scenes and two alternate endings. It is a great DVD to buy.
28 Days Later is a smart movie in a market of trash like Michael Bay's new Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Do not miss it.
From: Darrell ( djshendrix@hotmail.com ) on 7 October 2004
Subject: BAD ENDINGS
Overall I was dissapointed with this movie. It started out with a great idea. There were strokes of brilliance in the set decor, costume, acting etc...the music was fantastic and the sound effects and dynamics were brilliant.
I was really engaged with the movie for quite a while. The realistic element that this would really happen, boggled my mind. Also the sure gravity of the predicament of our actors that was solidified when Naomi attacked her friend just seconds after he became infected...Sorry did I saw attacked I meant brutally slaughtered with a machetee.
Ok things were looking good when they found Frank and Hannah...Here was this guy with a system in place he had body armour, lights to draw in visitors, (moms)creme de menthe, a taxi and even bukets of water on the roof to catch rain water...
Then they start on their little journey and the whole movie turns to shit!
They end up sleeping ouside instead of driving through the night and somehow forget that there are thousands of unknown killers lurcking in the GODDAMN WOODS ALL AROUND THEM!!!!!!!
Fortuantely (certainly not realistically) nobody gets hurt...the fire that is lit through the night miraculously does not attract "the infected"
Then they end up at the army camp??!!!
ok ok ...and later we find out that there is a world outside of them and that they've been quaranteened (a fact that was hinted at by the sargent...whom by the way has less character development than the rageing zombie that the officers have chained up outside!!!) if there was a world outside would sombody...the officers had access to Global Positioning Statalite systems, short wave radio...or even a fucking CELLULAR phone! Any telephone with digiatal capabilities would still work if the satalite were in place...even if they were beign run by another country...even satalite TV would still broadcast channels...from France, Italy...the USA, Cananda...ETC!!!!....Wholly fuck someone on fell asleep during the script editing phase!
Anyway...the soldiers end up being crazier than the infected ok ok metahpohor human race!!! but what the hell happens then...they ecape...!? courrier boys takes out the army...! goes crazy become super human...to save his new found love with Naomi that has only been confirmed by one scene prior...ohh yeah an that kiss on the cheel from the country side...
Bottom line we never find out anything about Naomi's chaacter, her past etc...we know more about her dead friend form the buthered machtee scene...and Hanna'a MOM from "mom's creme de menthe" never comes to be explained...know one ever knows who she was or how she died...and the endings...don't make my puke...even the alternative ending. The extreme animated ending with narrations the one where they end up never meeting the soldiers is the olny one that comes close to making sense...but evne that one does not burry the hatchet...
I'm sorry but it was a good try...could have been a brilliant movie but instead was a waste of my time and waste of 5 bucks to rent.
Ohh yeah the acting was good...not brilliant but good
From: Milly ( officialwalnut@hotmail.com ) on 16 July 2004
Subject: 28 days later
I thought this movie was the best horror movie that i've ever watched, not that i'm into horror movie. i thought it was intellegent, unlike most horror movies were people just kill for purpose of it and they just appear from no where. that situation is very real, and can possibly one day happen. Infact, some of us are already affected by a rage virus, were we aren't in control of ourselfs ...but just don't see that it results in mass deaths. it's very metaphorical and intellegent, and that is why i would say this is the best horror movie i've seen. nothing compared with Scream, Urban Legends, I Know what you did last summer, House on Hunted Hill, ect. i think those movies are pure sick and don't send out any kind of message.
From: Mitch ( x@x.x ) on 17 May 2004
Subject: Absolute Crap !! AVOID
I rented out this movie and to be totally honest, it sucked balls.... and thats being positive.
A the start it starts off looking really promising with an outbreak of rage threatening a few activists freeing a monkey.
Rage spreads and supposidely results in the end of the world (though some more gore and the showing of the end of the world would have been nice).
There are some bits where Rage infected humans pop up trying to kill the remaining survivors, but for most of it, you spend your time banging your head against a wall cursing the British for ever being allowed to make such a sh*t movie.
It appears to me like this movie COULD have been a piece of brilliance, but a last minute budget cut caused them to make up a really crap middle to the movie, spoiled by honestly pathetic actors.
Its a shame because the movie had the ability to be a blockbuster, but lack of effort after the first 10 minutes, makes it 10mins of action, and about 1 and a half hrs of sleep time.
3/10
From: Ryan "LaserBoy" Garland ( spamhere@hotmail.com ) on 28 April 2004
Subject: Love or Hate with this Movie
If you ask someone that knows about this movie what he/she thought of it, then the response always, "I Loved It!" or "I Hated It!". If it is the latter, then it is interesting that everyone who responds negatively did not watch past the first 15 minutes, because he/she fell asleep or lost interest, etc... If the person would have watched longer and got engaged in the characters of the film, then he/she would have enjoyed the thought provoking survival horror film.
The high-glam, well-funded, corporate movies from Hollywood that we are barraged with have much more visual polish than this film. But you learn to appreciate this movie's gritty look and you begin to realize just how well the movie was made. The story is firm and characters are believable, relatable, and diverse. There emotions are well depicted and their intelligence is realistic (assuming that people are smarter than what is typically illustrated in horror films).
After seeing this done so well, I have to wonder how do the high budgets films manage to screw up the formula so often?
From: Tara ( tarat@hotmail. com ) on 28 March 2004
Subject: 28 days
I watched the first 20 minutes of this movie and almost passed out. The makeup and the idea that the man is alone, one of the only survivors horrified me. I had nightmares all night and i dont think i can ever look at monkeys in the same way again. but i think if that kind of stuff doesnt bother you go ahead and watch it it would probably be a great movie.
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From: kris ( fishman@hotmail.com ) on 29 December 2004
Subject: its good
it is a good filmm that can make u think so stop picking holes and enjoy the thing u fools