28 Days Later

2.50
    28 Days Later
    2002

    Synopsis

    Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

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    Cast

    • Cillian MurphyJim
    • Naomie HarrisSelena
    • Brendan GleesonFrank
    • Megan BurnsHannah
    • Christopher EcclestonMajor Henry West
    • Noah HuntleyMark
    • Luke MablyPrivate Clifton
    • Stuart McQuarrieSeargent Farrell
    • Ricci HarnettCorporal Mitchell
    • Leo BillPrivate Jones

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland plumb the violence of the mind with slashing wit and shocking gravity. Happy nightmares.
    • 80

      Time

      Boyle's ingenuity with the camera gives this fraught journey plenty of menace and pizazz.
    • 80

      L.A. Weekly

      The movie is mercifully uncontaminated by the smarty-pants self-reflexiveness that has sucked the lifeblood from nearly all post-"Scream" horror pictures. Clever enough not to be too clever, Boyle and Garland play their story straight -- they just want to give you the creeps -- and, by so doing, bring the undead back to cinematic life.
    • 78

      Austin Chronicle

      There’s gore, all right, although the real terror lies in the tease, and the often dark, herky-jerky DV format ratchets up the tension to an almost unbearable degree.
    • 75

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      Around about the third act, the picture does what no self-respecting virus ever would -- relents, turns confused, and lets our immune system fight back with thoughts of its own, with distracting cavils about the logic of the plot and the slightness of the themes.
    • 75

      USA Today

      The look of the film, shot on digital video, is haunting and gritty. The cleaner, prettier look of 35mm would have detracted from the immediacy and sense of foreboding created in this artful blend of sci-fi and pseudo-realism.
    • 70

      Variety

      Shows a rather arrogant disdain for its audience in between occasional flashes of flair.
    • 63

      New York Daily News

      [Boyle] shrugs off any intellectual pretense to rollick in a dead-on scare fest. On that level, 28 Days Later is indeed a frightfully good time.

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