28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: A work of genius? How about a rip off?
Review: I love Zombie films. Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead are two of my all time favorite movies. When I saw that the critics were saying how the director reinvents the genre and how great it was and this and that, I had to go see it opening night! What a dissapointment! Its a total rip off of Dawn and Day of the Dead! Split those movies in half and you have 28 days later! As for the "hyper zombies", that was first seen in the remake of Resident Evil for the Gamecube! The only original thing going on here is the high pitched fight scenes that will make anyone feel uncomfortable. Otherwise compared to what George Romero has done, this is crap. Don't believe the hype. Go rent Dawn and Day of the Dead.

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Summary: a great end of the earth movie
Review: so great in the theaters it just blew me away with its filmaking by awesome director Danny Boyle. one of the best of 2003. a man walks up and finds no one insight except these crazed people who try to kill him and then he finds a woman who is not. beautifully made with great camera work and visions. you do not wanna miss this movie

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Summary: Post apocalyptic mayhem
Review: I really enjoyed seeing this film in the cinema. It had a sense of skewered reality about it. It relied on plausible reactions of the main characters to their predicament and the set pieces were kept to a believable scale. It followed the tradition of British horror film genre in the style of Quatermass or The Wicker Man. The characters walked around everyday familiar locations but you knew something was badly awry. The army, the last bastion of resistance to the infected, is not to be trusted. There is unpredictability as to which main characters might not survive. All communications have ceased except for a repeated radio message from an army base up North. The protagonists have nightmares and appear to be on the loosing side. A successful film and one worth seeing again.

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Summary: snooze fest
Review: A not very scary or thought provoking movie. The movie is bereft of people and zombies! The zombies live indoors and only come out at night. This is because they were infected by a virus. Stupid. That whole Dracula thing is best left in a Vampire movie anyhow. How the first two survivors survived ( or any of them for that matter) is beyond a mystery. The first encounter with a zombie kills one of them off in half a second and this guy was supposed to be a survivor? The Nazi like camp they encounter is
where everyone gets their highbrow ideas about this movie. It didn't bring me to any revelations. I already know people suck without a movie sucking to tell me bout it. How about some makeup for those dracu-ombies? The living people looked as much like zombies as the others. Please just rent the classic or even the remake of Night of the Living Dead. Otherwise its a horror suspense movie for poeple who don't usually like that sort of thing.

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Summary: Grrrrrr
Review: I went to see this movie because I heard what most reviewers were saying. BIIIIIIG, HUUUUGE MISTAKE!!!
Sometimes recycling classic themes is a great idea, so in theory Boyle's interpretaion of a zombie movie would make a great example of recycling... Not.
Where is the tension? Where is the suspense? We know who is going to survive and who is going to get it from the first 15 minutes of the movie.
Yes, we have, as we have in all movies made by Boyle, a great cinematographic composition but it doesnt stand out.
This is suposed to be a scary movie... And it might have been should Boyle had managed to put you in the players shoes, but that just doesnt happen.
Since the plott is pretty obvious, you just dont care about the characters of the movie, you dont get simpathetic and you dont get scared.
And I am not going to talk about history's plausability here.

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Summary: Future History?
Review: what makes this film so good is the feeling that this could atually happen. who knows what's lurking in some labatory around the world just waiting to be released. I do not wish to give any thing away by giving a run down of the plot,but if you ever enjoyed Zombies Dawn of the Dead and wished to see a modern version you will not be disatisfied.

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Summary: Best Horror Movie of 2003!
Review: With 28 Days Later Director Danny Boyle(Trainspotting,The Beach) created something many have tried in vain,a truly scary Horror Movie!This Movie is heavily influenced by Classics like George Romero's Dawn & Day of the Dead,without being a cheap Remake Clone.Danny Boyle has taken these influences and and incoporated them into 28 days Later to craft a original Horror Movie.The Movie also does not rely on cheap shocks to frighten it's audience but uses a feeling of dispair,dread and clautrophobia mixed with genuine concern for the Characters to do so.This,combined with great acting by rather unknown actors combines to make,in my opinion,the best Horror Movie of 2003!

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Summary: This is NOT a zombie movie...
Review: As the title says, this isn't a zombie movie. This is much more and doesn't deserve to be cornered into such a label. First of all, this movie utilizes some very beautiful camera work when it delivers its characters that you learn to feel for AND its scenery that is constantly looming with a desperate sense of hopelessness and emptiness that could very well have your skin crawling. Which, by the way, is how this movie delivers its scares. Yes, you will be startled too, but if you can appreciate beautiful camera work and sound that will have your heart thumping off of your rib cage, then you will surly enjoy a movie such as this. Also, don't expect the kind of "horror" movie that you may be used to. This movie throws a spin on the genre by delivering a very artistic take, which I think takes nothing away and does so much for originality. By the way, this movie is VERY intense. This is seemingly amplified by its contrast of very dramatic moments that are scattered all around. Much like the beautiful score, the film itself is a rollercoaster ride that anyone can enjoy as long as they don't hold it to the standard of what they already think a horror movie "should" be.

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Summary: Good Zombie Movie
Review: I don't like zombie movies. The thought of cannibalism disturbs me, actually watching it makes me down right sick (ie, "Dawn of the Dead" or "DeadAlive"). But there are exceptions to the rule, and "28 Days Later" is one of them. At first I was a little put off by the title, but don't worry, it has nothing to do with Sandra Bulluck in rehab. What it is about is a man (Cillian Murphy) wakes up in a London hospital and finds almost everyone is dead, or a zombie. He goes on a journey to find other survivers. He finds a few, and they all make their way to the country side. There they meet up with a military group that has a warped idea of morale boosting. The movie is in every way as good as George Romero's "Dead" triligy except one; all the "Dead" movies are condensed into this one movie, almost like a Cliffs Notes guide to George Romero's Zombies; it should have tried to be more origanal. But other than that it was very good. I personaly would like to see the alternate endings, I didn't get a chance to in the theaters. But by all means, this is worth your wild, if you're a ghoul like me, at any rate.

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Summary: Unusually Good
Review: As parents of a teen (...), we were able to watch this movie last night (10/10/03) before the official "street date". And like my review title states, it was unusually good. There is gore and zombie-like ghoulish behavior, but there is also the human element which overrides that and definately helps in making this a watchable film. I found myself shouting, "Go! Go! Move, get outta there!", several times especially during the scene with the rats (trust me, it's a good one). It also caused me to become squeamish and I had to put my feet up on the couch and sit cross-legged (deep-rooted childhood stuff that still pops up during good horror films). Yes, as another reviewer says the infected are fast, very fast. None of that Frankenstein-walking going on here; if they want you they quickly crash through windows to grab you. Great gloomy day/Halloween movie. Not for kids. I hope you enjoy.