Boyle an exit from nightmarish claustrophobia into a more conventional (though still quite effective) action-and-suspense story. He and his men are on hand to demonstrate that those who offer protection and security can be even more dangerous than the virus-crazed zombies they keep at bay. Henry West (Christopher Eccleston), who seems to have graduated from a ''Lord of the Flies'' military academy. Through the silence comes a radio signal, a voice promising that salvation and the answer to the virus lie with a group of soldiers just north of Manchester. Other expressions, as you might expect, are not so inspiring. Here, working with a more solid premise, a smaller budget and greater freedom (and without big movie stars), they probe a similar theme more persuasively. Garland tried to imagine how a small group of people, removed from the modern world, might reconstitute society from scratch, an experiment whose failure seemed preordained for both the characters and the filmmakers. In their previous collaboration, ''The Beach,'' Mr. After centuries of bustle and enterprise, what remain are vacant buildings, overturned double-decker buses, looted vending machines and cheap souvenir replicas of Big Ben scattered across the sidewalk. Paul's Cathedral take on a lurid, funereal glow. Postcard images of the Thames, London Bridge and the dome of St. Stumbling out of his hospital bed, Jim (Cillian Murphy), a former bike messenger, encounters a familiar metropolis that has been almost entirely stripped of life. Even the rats flee from them, and the few healthy humans face a Hobbesian battle for survival.īut what is most striking, and most chilling, about the early scenes of this post-apocalyptic horror show, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, is the eerie, echoing emptiness. The churches and alleyways are littered with corpses, and fast-moving, red-eyed ''infecteds'' roam the streets looking for prey.
28 days later movie summary full#
Four weeks after a laboratory full of rage-infected monkeys has been liberated by some tragically misguided animal rights militants, the whole of London - and possibly every place else - has been substantially depopulated. When ''28 Days Later'' is not scaring you silly, it invites you to reflect seriously on the fragility of modern civilization, which has been swept away by a gruesome and highly contagious virus while the hero lies peacefully in a coma.
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