28 Days Later

SETTING: Great Britain - Present

RATING: R

PLOT: A mysterious infection spread by the bite of a chimpanzee, spreads through all of London and soon infects the whole of the island.

QUOTE: Mark: A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, "Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there." And the man says, "No. It's not a lion. It's a giraffe."
[Jim doesn't respond]
Mark: Completely humorless.

[finding a crate of fresh apples in a pile of rotting produce]
Frank: Mmmmmm... Irradiated!

THOUGHTS: Well..... For being a zombie flick there weren't as many zombies as I had hoped. Although the film was more or less what humans would be like during such an tragedy. Not much different from the zombies themselves.

SYNOPSIS: Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage and blood lust. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his, um death, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics.

CONCLUSION: I would have to say, if you like zombie flicks go watch Night of the Living Dead or at the very least watch Zombieland. It just isn't the zombie flick you are expecting. an O.K. one time watch definitely NOT an owner.

THEIR RATING: 3 out of 5: "28 Days Later" is a tough, smart, ingenious movie that leads its characters into situations where everything depends on their (and our) understanding of human nature.

MY RATING: 3 out of 5 Cillian Murphy is great, Naomi Harris is realistic. the cinematography was gritty and done well.