28 Days Later Review by The Alpha Craig (4 Stars)

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Starring:
Alex Palmer, Bindu De Stoppani, Jukka Hiltunen, David Schneider, Cillian Murphy, Toby Sedgwick, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Noah Huntley, Christopher Dunne, Emma Hitching, Alexander Delamere, Justin Hackney, Kim McGarrity

Directed By:
Danny Boyle

28 Days Later (2003)

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Movie Review by The Alpha Craig

January 11th, 2008

That's not a lion, it's a giraffe.

That is about the only joke you get in this movie which was good to see. I enjoy horror movies quite a bit, especially those of the zombie persuasion. The one thing I can't stand is when the director, or whoever wrote the script, tries to squeeze humor into them when it just doesn't fit the mod of the movie. Sure there are some good horror/comedies out there like the Nightmare On Elm Street series, but for the most part you can't be dead serious for 85-90% of the movie and then try to be funny the rest of the time. This movie does not try that at all.

A group of animal rights activists broke into a testing lab to liberate monkeys that were being tested on. They didn't realize that the monkeys carried a virus and when one was freed it immediately bit one of the activists. Later a bicycle courier named Jim awoke in an empty hospital. He now must find any survivors and try to avoid the remaining infected people now that it is "Twenty Eight Days Later."

Yeah I know that was a bit redundant, but so what. This was a plot that I thought I was one step ahead of, but there were enough twists to keep me guessing, right down to when Jim talks about what he and his group were about to do as being a terrible idea. Right when you think disaster is dead ahead, it isn't. When you think everything is fine, chaos erupts. That is what I want to see in a movie like this and it didn't disappoint.

Cillian Murphy (DARK KNIGHT) as Jim was good as the normal guy caught in a situation that none of us could ever prepare for. He really evolves into the "kill or be killed" mentality that is lacking from characters in movies like this. Naomie Harris (PIRATES OF THE CARIBEAN: AT WORLDS END) as Selena was good as well. She started off cold and distant, but you see her realizing that she can't do it all on her own which is growth you see in characters like her but they always tend go too far. She still retains her toughness and that is rare. Megan Burns (DO YOU MIND (IF I CRY) as Hannah seemed pretty ambiguous and didn't really come off as being full in the moment. It took most of the movie for her character to really show anything. Christopher Eccleston (THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING, though I will always think of him as Dr. Who or Claude, the invisible guy from Heroes) as Major Henry West was not what he seemed to be and that was a cool twist.

I enjoyed this quite a bit more than I expected I would. I is reminiscent of a Romero zombie if the mood and feel without blatantly ripping him off. I look forward to the sequel.

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