28 Days Later

Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later There might not be anything better than beating the heat with a little zombie action. To make up for their spectacularly misguided adaptation of The Beach, Danny Boyle and Beach writer Alex Garland give a bleak vision of London in 28 Days Later, where mankind is being ravaged by a virus, Ebola with a twist, as the infected turn into zombies that sprint after the uninfected. Meditations on humanity interspersed with vomiting blood and red eyes.

Gothamist saw the film a few weeks ago and the most beautiful passages of the film are near the beginning, with one survivor wandering the deserted, ransacked streets of London. Manohla Dargis calls 28 Days Later "wonderfully, horribly scary."

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on June 27, 2003 9:07 AM

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garth

huh. i take it back. having not read the book it didn't even occur to me you were referring to it. my bad. and since i didn't read it i guess i'm not really in a position to judge the movies comparitive spectacular or misguided-ness. guess that's what happens when you start drinking before you go and post things online...

oops... i did it again?

Jen

I was referring to the adaptation from beloved, trenchant book to its sorta neither-here-nor-there screen presence - and I'm sure DiCap's bankability had a lot to do with how the script meandered.

I did like 28 Days Later a lot - the DV work was great.

garth

"the beach" was spectacularly misguided? i dunno if it was either spectacular or misguided (ok, the field of pot was spectacular). you might say that about boyles earlier" a life less ordinary", but i really don't know about "the beach". at worst i might call it an average concept flick. i think it just gets a bad rap beacuse it was leonardo dicaprio's first movie after "titanic" (talk about spectacularly misguided).

having just seen 28 days later, however, i gotta to say it's really nice to see boyle moving back to british locales. "shallow grave" and "trainspotting" are some of my favorite movies, and it's nice to see that boyle still has it, even with out ewan mcgregor.