Review of 28 Days Later (2002) by Edward S — 21 Nov 2012
The first half of this film is incredible; it launches its own concept for an apocalyptic world that serves as a novel, hugely entertaining survivor/zombie scenario. However, the 2nd half of the film, which takes place at a renegade military base, is dully claustrophobic and somewhat stagnant.
There, the film decides to discordantly explore Romero-esque themes of humanity and human concerns. Which is fine but it's extremely distracting to the viewer and to the pace of the film; if you are going to punctuate a fine horror movie with Romero-esque musings at least learn from Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" to make the messages consistent by including them from the beginning of the film. With a foundation for the movie to work on, the underlying themes are much less caprice.
As a result of the film's discrepant approach, its once novel apocalyptic scenario is penultimately utilized in a disappointingly campy manner. In other words, "28 Days Later" missed its own chance at cinematic horror greatness and immortality, rather than its stance as is, which is just a very good high-concept horror movie.
This review of 28 Days Later (2002) was written by Edward S on 21 Nov 2012.
28 Days Later has generally received very positive reviews.
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