Before this movie started I saw lots of trailers with crawling babies and floating people and limbs bending impossibly, and I wondered if it might be almost Halloween. But it's because 28 Years Later is classified a horror film. But this series of films is much more interesting than just gore, and in fact the bits where they are running away form the zombies are not the best part at all.
In the first film from 2002, 28 Days Later, the virus that causes Rage and zombie-like behaviour is accidentally released, and there were few survivors. As ever, it's the other humans that are the real danger. 28 Weeks Later I haven't seen yet. The third installment is directed by Danny Boyle again, and we are in Northern Scotland on a little village separated from the mainland by a causeway. This is ideal conditions for survival, no access for Zombies and lots of hardy people who like farming and weaving.
After all these years they have a good defensive system and are teaching the children archery. A twelve-year old boy is taken with his Daddy across to the mainland, and there the adventure begins.
It's clear that a lot has happened in the years since the virus was first released, and there are strange things going on. What makes the film really good is the visual suggestions without explanations. And also Ralph Fiennes as a demented doctor who somehow still survives in the wild.
I really enjoyed it. The relationship between the boy and his mother is excellent, and there was a weird but interesting conclusion.
It's clear that a lot has happened in the years since the virus was first released, and there are strange things going on. What makes the film really good is the visual suggestions without explanations. And also Ralph Fiennes as a demented doctor who somehow still survives in the wild.
I really enjoyed it. The relationship between the boy and his mother is excellent, and there was a weird but interesting conclusion.
