| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Karina Montgomery |
| By the folks that brought you Trainspotting and Shallow Grave, 28
Days Later is a big fat steaming metaphor on a low budget silver
platter. The story is interesting enough; a man named Jim awakes in
hospital after a terrible virus has (while he was...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 1.5/4) |
| Not to be mistaken for a sequel to the Sandra Bullock drunk drama "28
Days,"
Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later..." is more a remake--or a nod to, or let's be
honest here and call it a complete rip-off--of George A. Romero's apocalyptic
horror masterpiece...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by David Friend (Rating: B-) |
| Fox Searchlight is hoping to take a bite out of this summer's American
box-office with a little zombie story they picked up from the UK called 28
Days Later. The horror film re-teams Trainspotting director Danny Boyle with
Alex Garland, writer of the...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 8/10) |
| It's a little jarring to see makeshift memorials with flyers for missing persons
on the big screen, but the fact that their presence is due to a killer virus
responsible for wiping out scores of people is even more potentially troubling
in this post-9/11...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 7/10) |
| CAPSULE: A modestly budgeted science fiction film
has society being destroyed by a virus that turns
people into violent killers. While some of the
ideas and some of the story seem borrowed from THE
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, the film...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Mark O'Hara |
| I mean, the characters infected (within 10-20 seconds of contact) with the
"Rage" virus are snarling, twitching, mindless animals that seem to hunt in
packs. They don't have much of an agenda – not even eating the brains of
the uninfected – except...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 7/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "28 Days Later" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Horror pictures are far from my favorite genre but director Danny Boyle
and writer Alex Garland make this into a doozy! Set in contemporary London, the
story begins in the...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Josh Gilchrist (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| There's a formula that must be followed to make a good scary movie, and
everyone has their own formula. Horror movies are a tricky concept since
there's not one proven technique that will terrify everyone. This is why when
a film is released which a...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: B) |
| Animal rights activists break into the Cambridge Primate Center and are
horrified to see chimps being force-fed visuals of extreme human violence. A
terrified lab assistant tries to warm them that these chimps are infected and
freeing them will have...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 4/10) |
| PLOT:
A man wakes up in an English hospital bed, only to find out that he seems to be
the only human being left alive on the planet after a raging virus strikes
everyone down. As he walks around London, he discovers that infected humans want
to kill him,...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Bob Bloom (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| 28 DAYS LATER (2003) 3 1/2 stars out of 4. Starring Cillian Murphy,
Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns and Brendan Gleeson.
Director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle DFF. Edited by Chris Gill.
Music by John Murphy. Written by Alex...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 8/10) |
| It's a little jarring to see makeshift memorials with flyers for missing
persons on the big screen, but the fact that their presence is due to a
killer virus responsible for wiping out scores of people is even more
potentially troubling in this post-9/11...more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B-) |
| Reviewed by: Harvey S. Karten
Grade: B-
Fox Searchlight Films
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Written by: Alex Garland
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns, Brendan
Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston,
Screened at: Fox, NYC, 6/19/03 more |
| 28 Days Later Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| If you, like me, are a big fan of end-of-the-world science fiction stories --
and I'm not talking about something sleazy with Bruce Willis going mano a mano
with an asteroid -- you'll be just as engrossed as I was in 28 DAYS LATER. (No,
it's not a...more |
