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28 Years Later (2025), Director: Danny Boyle,
rated R for language, nudity, violence, zombie gore
Time
didn't heal anything.
 Starring:
Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie
Williams, Ralph Fiennes, Chi Lewis-Parry, Edvin Ryding,
Christopher Fulford, Stella Gonet
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
- good
"Every skull is a set
of thoughts. These sockets saw and these jaws spoke and
swallowed. This is a monument to them. A temple." - Dr.
Kelson
Why watch this?
Surviving zombies is always good cinema.
Plot Summary:
Set nearly three decades after the initial Rage Virus outbreak,
a family living in a fortified, isolated community on the coast
of a quarantined Britain must venture onto the mainland to seek
medical help for an ailing parent. While navigating the
overgrown, ruined landscape, they find that the infected have
mutated and evolved into a more intelligent, durable species,
making survival increasingly perilous.
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Dad's Preview:
The third film in Danny Boyle's zombi-verse focuses a
young boy, Spike, and his father who set out on a
right-of-passage trip inland... where they'll search for
supplies and kill a few zombies. They barely escape
after encountering a very dangerous, and somewhat
intelligent, alpha-zombie. All this leads to the film's
strong second half, where they encounter Dr. Kelson,
brilliantly portrayed by Ralph Fiennes. He was a
physician before, and he has very creatively survived.
He has also constructed a temple made of human bones.
This story is very unique within its genre, and I found
it fascinating. It also nicely sets up its sequel:
28 Years Later: The
Bone Temple (2026).
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Columbia
Pics, Decibel Films, DNA Films; Sony Pictures Releasing |
