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28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)

28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Disappointed
Review: This movie was hyped a lot, but by the time I saw it, I just didn't feel it was very scary or shocking.

I really liked the scene that the Ave Maria was playing over 'cause that's good music, but the move never really takes off.

There's a bit where a bunch of CGI rats come running through and I'm thinking, cor! It's finally beginning. But no, not really.

If you look at some classic zombie films, like Dawn of the Dead or Day of the Dead, there are zombies who stand out. A hare Christina, Bub, the clown. And topping the bland zombies is an even blander cast of humans.

Even the worst Italian low budget zombie films, like Zombie 3 & 4 are more entertaining.

This is, like, art, or something and so isn't allowed to be entertaining.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Interesting Film...
Review: I think that why this movie was such a disappointment for most people was due to the fact that they were expecting a horror flick. While 28 Days Later certainly has its scary moments (the zombie suddenly jumping through the window at Cillian Murphy while in his home), I'd say it leans more on drama. The sociological issues raised in this movie, such as sex as survival in a ruined world, are extremely profound.
Aside from this, the casting was immensely superb, with absolutely dazzling performances from Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris, and the cinematography was nothing short of spectacular, especially the cottage scenes in the country.
By the way, the writing is wholly unique. One of the most moving sequences of the movie, Murphy's murderous bloodbath near the end of the movie, forces the viewer to question morality in a world gone dead.
However, the killer of this film is the fact that people looking for a thought-provoking flick look at this movie as a zombie-horror creepshow, while the thrill-seeking punks look at it as too boring or slow. However, I highly recommend this underrated film for anyone looking for a serious film about apocalypse.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THought iT was AweSome
Review: This movie was wicked. I hadnt even heard of it when i went and saw it. A friend just said "a guy wakes up from a Coma and things are diferent".. I had no idea that it would be like it was. Really good story, Really good scare. What more do you want from a horror.. A viewers lust for Knives as fingers is gone. Hockey masks are yesterday. TOday when viewers are snackin on CHeese Buns.. they want innovation. Welcome to the future of Horror movies.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great film
Review: This is a great suspense film, the camera work is excellent the story is good, and the acting is just great. Now what the hell are all these other cretins complaining for? I'm sorry the movie didn't make you wet your pants! Please let me know if there is a better suspense/horror film out there that will do that cause 28 days later is a perfect combination of story and horror. It doesnt always have to be about scares you know. These other reviews that bash the film are bogus. They basically say, "If movie don't make me leap out of my chair in fright, it not good." Oh and another thing, how hard is it to get blood in your eye?? Here's an analogy for you, throw an unsuspecting amount of water on your face and see if any gets in your eyes. Please, if your going to write a review at least think about what you're saying first.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Too many stupid implausibilities...
Review: This movie wants to be great and could have been great. But it's almost as if two people were arguing when they wrote it: two very different people; a smart one and a not-so-smart one.
There are just two many implausibilities unaccounted for.
Such as: Why is it established that the infected monsters can eject infected material at a person, but then, later in the movie, you find a non-infected person standing right in front of an infected monster, taunting it, with no protection covering his face???
And why, at the beginning, were the infected monkeys only encased in glass if what they were infected with was so drastically deadly???
Unexplained stupidities of small detail abound in this movie and destroy it's believability for any thinking, questioning viewer.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I couldn't wait for it to be over!
Review: I saw previews for this and thought it looked awesome. I was badly mistaken. It is slow, boring, and unscary. Less than halfway through it I was ready to leave. I kept expecting something scary to happen but it never did. Horrible film! Don't waste your time. I wouldn't have given it any stars if that was a choice.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: it should have no stars!!!!!!
Review: dont see this movie! its a pile of rubbish!

when i saw the trailer for 28 days later i thought how awesome it looked! i loved the look of the poster with the eyes! but when i watched it... what a disappointment! im 14 and i wasnt scared once. it didnt shock me. it didnt make me think 'omg civilization culd crumble'. i adored the scenes of him wandering around dead london, but when he found all those bodies in the church i was tempted to just turn off the tv... i could tell it was goning to get worse. and i was right! it just falls apart. i mean, what are the chances of someone getting a drop of blood in their eye? ¬_¬

dont see it. please. its just a waste of time!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Could This Be The Greatest Movie I've Seen All Year!?
Review: It Probally is!

This has to be the best "genre busting" movie ever to come out of the British film industry in the last 20 years!

Infection has swept the nation, turning almost everybody into zombie like monster's infected with "pure rage".
This, of course, is un-known to our star Jim, becuase he's basically been in a coma through out the infection's outbreak on the nation.

Jim wakes up, completely clueless to what has happened to the city, and stumbles upon, to his horror, "the infected!", he quickly teams up with a fellow survivor Salena, played by the v. sexy Naomie Harris - "watch out Halle Berry!" - to fight for survival against the infected, the pair then run into fellow survivors in the form of a father/daughter couple, who then make it clear, there only hope to keep survivng is to risk a dangerous roadtrip across a nation of "infected zombie like victims" in a London Taxi, in seek of "the cure for infection" -but... what they find is a battle for Jim's own survival and a fight for basic human rights and a test of the worth of mankind and it's over all survival!

This is really a great movie, despite it having the eye candy of Naomie Harris (Selena), the effects are great, the atmopshere is great and very very real if you have ever been to London and also... the main thing, the PLOT is unbeatble and so original, it was hard to place into a neat little box other wise known as a "genre", so go see it!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Wasn't what I thought
Review: With the reviews, I thought this would be a scary movie. But it isn't. It's based on military experimentation with a virus.
The acting is not too great. There really is no "scare" in it.
A lot of people dying, zombie type undead but even they are not scary. It was a waste of my money.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Scary and makes you think...
Review: A bicycle courier, Jim, awakens in the hospital after an accident and finds that he is incredibly alone. There are no nurses, no doctors, no janitors, no other patients, nothing. There is only the deafening silence. He manages to wander down into the streets of London, where he finds absolutely no one. Finally, after stepping into a church, he finds a mass of bodies all together - and also manages to find a zombie-like priest who seems possessed. Jim only manages to escape the zombies with the help of two strangers, Mark and Selena, who quickly fill him in on what has happened in the past 28 days - a virus has spread throughout England, causing "the infected" (the zombie creatures) to attack anyone who is not infected. The virus has spread so rapidly that nearly all of England has been either infected or killed. Families no longer exist, there is no government, there is no army, there is nothing but a struggle for the non-infected to make it through one more day. Jim and Selena team up with a father and daughter in search of a group of soldiers who promise salvation from the infection - but once they reach the blockade, one has to wonder just who the monsters are.

I really liked this movie. The first part of the movie with Jim discovering the vast quietness that has enveloped London is particularly great - there is virtually no sound at all, and you almost feel like you are wandering the deserted streets with him. I did wonder, however, how Jim managed to survive for so long in a hospital with no one to care for him. I don't know how long he was in the hospital, but in the coma-like state he was in, surely he would have died within a few days with no assistance, if merely from lack of water.

I also had a few more questions about the movie...surely the zombies would have died within 28 days. They only ate the non-infected, they never seemed to drink anything, surely even zombies need water? I also wondered why the infected didn't turn against one another, but only attacked the non-infected. Maybe it had something to do with the disease, I don't know. Anyway, just because I had a few questions about the movie, the experience wasn't ruined for me! :)

The movie really made you think, because in just 28 days "civilization" itself had pretty much disappeared. The soldiers who weren't infected were pretty much becoming animals themselves. There was no respect for others, no qualms about killing innocent people, etc. I really don't know if that is realistic or not, as thankfully I have never been put into such a dire circumstance, but I imagine that it could conceivably happen as the movie portrayed it. That is the scariest part in my opinion - humankind turning against humankind, and destroying itself in the process.

I didn't particularly like the ending, but the alternate theatrical ending (included on the DVD) was much better. There are three endings in total included on the DVD, so if you don't like one, you can always pick another! :) Altogether, I believe this movie is a definite plus to any DVD collection.


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