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Directed and Scored By: Danny Boyle
Written By: Alex Garland
Produced By: Andrew MacDonald
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, and Megan Burns
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland set out to make a different kind of zombie movie. The monsters are decidedly quicker and more intelligent than in previous incarnations. But the film is still Night of the Living Dead set in present day Europe. And it's not that scary, to boot.
A Londoner named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakes from a month-long coma only to find a trashed and deserted city. He soon learns that it isn't quite as deserted as he thought. London has been overrun by mindless and hostile zombies (by-products of a freak lab accident) that spread their horrible disease through human blood. After our main character learns of his predicament, much of the rest of the movie focuses on Jim and a handful of other survivors as they make their way to a military compound in Manchester. But once they reach the encampment, their situation does not improve...
I hate this movie because it's such a waste of Danny Boyle's time. Filmmakers of his caliber shouldn't be allowed to make genric horror flicks. And the actors don't do anything special to set this apart from the recent slew of zombie movies released in the past five years, either. Stupid characters, a cobbled together script, long stretches of tedium, bad acting and a handful of "boo moments" add up to make an average movie I really didn't need to see.
MY FINAL GRADE: C-
28 Days Later
Directed and Scored By: Danny Boyle
Written By: Alex Garland
Produced By: Andrew MacDonald
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, and Megan Burns
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland set out to make a different kind of zombie movie. The monsters are decidedly quicker and more intelligent than in previous incarnations. But the film is still Night of the Living Dead set in present day Europe. And it's not that scary, to boot.
A Londoner named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakes from a month-long coma only to find a trashed and deserted city. He soon learns that it isn't quite as deserted as he thought. London has been overrun by mindless and hostile zombies (by-products of a freak lab accident) that spread their horrible disease through human blood. After our main character learns of his predicament, much of the rest of the movie focuses on Jim and a handful of other survivors as they make their way to a military compound in Manchester. But once they reach the encampment, their situation does not improve...
I hate this movie because it's such a waste of Danny Boyle's time. Filmmakers of his caliber shouldn't be allowed to make genric horror flicks. And the actors don't do anything special to set this apart from the recent slew of zombie movies released in the past five years, either. Stupid characters, a cobbled together script, long stretches of tedium, bad acting and a handful of "boo moments" add up to make an average movie I really didn't need to see.
MY FINAL GRADE: C-