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28 Days Later (Full Screen Edition)

28 Days Later (Full Screen Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Satisfying mix of fear, hate, death, deceit and paranoia
Review: Chaos easily spawns fear, hate, death, deceit and paranoia. Any major disaster can do that-remember 9/11-or a soccer match in South America. 28 Days Later is frightening because it is that simple. Fear is heightened by isolation and loneliness.

A virus is released, and if anyone knows anything about history, viruses spread fast! Think of SARS-or the Plague (the Black Death)!

The story is a microcosm of a much larger disaster. The virus is released-ironically by animal rights activities. The virus causes massive and violent homicidal behavior in the infected. Release one infected person on an unsuspecting population in an hour there will be say 10 infected then 100 and then a thousand! And that's only a passage of THREE hours!

The Zombies don't need much motivation, and zombies (in any of the genre films) generally, never "see" each other as a threat.

The protagonist awakens AFTER 28 days in a coma. So for 28 days the virus has been running its course.

Finding help (in a hopeless situation) is the engine which drives the protagonist and his companions, and during the course of the film the protagonist changes from victim to violent aggressor.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: TOTALLY BRILLIANT! AWESOME!
Review: THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. I ALREADY BOUGHT IT! THE THOUGHT OF A DISEASE WITH NO BOUNDARY'S, NO CURE. THIS IS A BONE CHILLING MOVIE WITH A TERRIBLE THOUGHT THAT PROBABLY HAUNTS ALL MINDS WHICH IS " THIS CAN REALLY HAPPEN"
THIS IS A MUST SEE MOVIE. I DONT CALL THIS A HORROR. I CALL IT A EYE OPENER!
A MUST BUY MOVIE
-------------------28 DAYS LATER RULES ALL-------------------

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Damn cool
Review: I'm surprized at everyone saying this movie got worst towards the end (OK, so the actual ending sucked, before that was cool)Did no one watch the bit were Jim went crazy and kicked everyone's ass? That ruled! It's really a shame that the ending was such poo, but if you're not put off by that, buy this.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Monsters among us.
Review: Okay, if you are expecting a horror movie, you might be disappointed. This is not really a traditional horror movie. There are no long lingering shots of zombies preying on humans. There are no nightie clad nubile lasses being chased, as they stumble and scream to get away. And by horror movie standards, there is not much blood and gore either.

What this movie does is different. It makes you think about fear. The world is being swept by a virus that turns you into a flesh eating zombie in mere seconds. There are a few people left. A man who retains his innocence only to lose it while he kills a child in self defense. A woman who has hardened herself in the interests of survival. A father who wants to protect his daughter and succeeds, right to the last minute and the daughter who watches her father being shot down by their rescuers when he turns into a Zombie. And all in search of salvation offered by a bunch of soldiers who have a totally different motive for wanting to save them. Who are the real monsters - the zombies? Or what the need for survival reduces decent people to?

Watch it if you want to watch a stylish, suspenseful movie without the kitsch. Don't watch it, if you are a Friday the 13th fan.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: WHY!
Review: Folks, I am a huge horror/ Zombie Movie Fan.
However, This film seriosuly miss the bus on that one.
I am not sure where to start.

1. Plot: F.
2. Action: F.
3. Dialouge: F.
4. Cast: F.
5. Ending: C (Barely made it).

If this movie was made in the 50s or the 60s, it might have been appealing .

Nawaf

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: at least it was kind of scary
Review: Although the concept for 28 Days Later was definitly influenced by about a million other horror films the presentation wasn't half bad. The movie starts off well giving you a false hope of a jam packed thriller of a flick but it slows down to just a trickle of very little action until the climax. The actors do a decent job and the movie is actually kind of funny at some times (though mostly unintentional) All in all you can't expect too much of it except to be another horror flick. Definitly not Danny's best but it's good for a scare. P.S. Be sure to check out ALL of the alternate endings.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Absolute shambles
Review: This has got to be one the worst movies. It started off great and after that just killed over. It was slow, boring, and hardly any confrontations till the very end. This is one movie you should leave on the shelves.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: and it started out so promising...
Review: I really wanted to like this movie, it had a good concept, (albeit stolen from 'The Stand'). The thing that threw me off the most aside from the horribly put together script, was the fact that the 'infected' never once attacked each other. They were practically lobotomy victims, how did theyknow that they wanted to infect others?
TOTAL CRAP!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Ripping Off George Romero
Review: "28 Days Later" is basically a rehash of a number of George Romero horror films. The one most often cited is "Night of the Living Dead" but in fact "28 Days Later" borrows most liberally from a lesser known Romero movie called "The Crazies".

It's directed by Danny Boyle who seems to get a lot of free passes from critics who should know better. His first film: "Shallow Grave" was OK if a bit too determined to be hip. "Trainspotting" was better, but again - I thought - too desperate to attain cool hip status. And then there were "The Beach" and "A Life Less Ordinary", both of which were pretty dismal

"28 Days Later" again has garnered a lot of positive reviews, but for me this update of the zombie movie doesn't really have much new going for it at all, except that it's shot on a prosumer DV camera, the Canon XL1

After a brief segment of violent news footage, the movie begins with a group of animal rights activists freeing caged chimps infected with a virus that causes unreasoning rage. The chimps infect the humans, and 28 Days later a cycle courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma in a deserted hospital. He wanders around a deserted London until he encounters not only infected and murderous individuals but also Selena (Naomie Harris) and Mark (Noah Huntley). Mark doesn't survive long, but Selena and Jim meet up with a father and daughter Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and Hannah (Megan Burns). They group decides to strike out for Manchester, where several soldiers, led by Major Henry West (Christopher Eccleston), have invited any survivors to join them at their blockade. When they get there though they discover that while the soldiers might provide some protection from crazed zombie-like infected they have their own less pleasant agenda.

The script's by Alex Garland, the writer of "The Beach". It doesn't bother to make much sense, and often descends into cliché. It tells us the infected are full of mindless rage, but never explains why they don't turn on each other, just on the uninfected. Or how they get organized enough to launch a mass attack.

The soldiers in the movie are apparently desperate for women, but they've only been locked up for the eponymous 28 days. And the movie automatically assumes that being attacked and eaten by enraged crazies is somehow a preferable fate for its two women than the "fate worse than death" the soldiers have in mind to rebuild humanity. The acting, particularly from Naomie Harris is pretty dire, and somehow that's made even more apparent by the grungy video footage. The best scenes are the scenes of a deserted London, but I remember seeing something very similar in an old Hammer film "Daleks Invasion Earth 2015". This is one of those movies, like "The Blair Witch Project" where the hype seems to have overcome the actual qualities or lack of them. For me, it wasn't even big on horror. Personally, for thrills I'd rather watch "Night of the Living Dead" or "Dawn of the Dead" again. Don't expect too much.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Increadible!
Review: I saw this film and it scared me to death. It was unusually interesting and compelling for a horror movie. It is an unconventional masterpeice that I absolutely love!


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