Movie Details
| Title: | 28 Years Later | |
| Director: | Danny Boyle | |
| Year: | 2025 | |
| Genre: | Zombie | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 12.21.25 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (5)
- 28 Days Later
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Sunshine
- T2 Trainspotting
- Trainspotting
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 12.21.25 | Internet | We're back to this series after a long absence, this time following Aaron Taylor-Johnson and his kid who are living on an island connected to the mainland via a land bridge that goes underwater on high tide. The kid's mom is sick so he takes her to a doctor rumored to be insane on the mainland, played by Ralph Fiennes. I have next to no memory of 28 Weeks Later but my journal note sounds like I was 50/50 on it. I do like Danny Boyle and Alex Garland but they've both made movies I didn't care for too so... I guess all that to say I came to this with mild interest and low expectation. It's ok. It does lack an ending in a way that tells me there are planned sequels even without seeing a trailer for Bone Temple like a week after this came out. There are some interesting inserts of archival footage, stuff from old films, radio broadcasts at the beginning which set a nice vibe but... I mean it's a two hour movie that feels like one act of a story. I guess the first one was light on plot and I can't even remember what happened in the second one so maybe this fits the series better than I'm giving it credit for. I was hoping for more world-building though. We get just a tiny bit of on-screen text at the beginning and we see this one village is back to archery. We also learn there are weird ground-crawling zombies that eat worms and alpha zombies with big swinging prosthetic dicks, and we learn that zombies can be or get pregnant, but mostly we learn nothing's changed about the zombies in almost 3 decades except i guess their clothes rotted off of them because everyone's naked. Here's the thing. These people are not zombies. This series has always been the "rage" virus. So how are these people living longer than a week without water? How does the mainland not sort their shit out or flatline in three decades? We don't get any of that, maybe that's act two. |
