28 years later It’s never exactly “scary”, but it’s constantly uncomfortable. Director Danny Boyle, Returning to the franchise he helped create together with Writer Alex Garlandtells the latter zombie story with kinetic and engaging filming A style that even dissatisfied the world’s most action. Stroll through the forest. Splash of water. The rising of the sun. You will never jump out of your seat, but you will be on the edge of it all the time, and we think that’s a lot more rewarding.
Set, you guessed it, 28 years after the “rage virus” took over Britain in the original of 2002,, 28 years later Centers on a beautiful but disturbed family living in a safe, remote community. While the continent is filled with infected and has been quarantined from the rest of the world, this place is accessible only by a small passage visible for a few hours daily. Thus young Spike (Alfie Williams), his mom Isla (Jodie Comer), Dad Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and the rest of the packed, happy community have remained safe for decades.
For a good third of 28 years laterYou don’t know exactly what the story will be. We follow Jamie taking Spike to the continent for the first time as a way to introduce us to them as humans and the world in general. They see slow, thick zombies and fast, fit zombies, and although the film takes a long time to fully reveal itself, it is constantly involved thanks to our interest in the world and the specificity of the characters. We want to learn and see more about everything.
This is also increased by Boyle’s filming, which returns many of his trademark techniques jumping cuts, pulse-beating music, sound and conscious B-roll-to-create tangible discomfort that also supports your mind to work. We look at Father and File League, but also thinking of this world out of a multitude of different corners, while chewing our nails with fear. It is a powerful combination.
Eventually the film finds focus, and it involves Comer’s character, Isla. She is sick, and Spike is desperate to find her help, which takes them in a whole new adventure. This is where both Comer and especially Williams really bend their acting muscles. Williams may be just a child, but he is a dynamic presence and easily carries the movie. However, after they become the focus, 28 years later indeed changes. Boyle’s hyper-energy style is marked back, almost in tandem with the more nutritious relationship between mother and son as opposed to son and father. It is here that we both see Spike and Isla in a different light, but there is enough change that it is not immediately consistent.
Something that, however, keeps everything coherent is the action and violence. You can’t have a movie full of stress and fear without any rewards and Boyle gives us many those in the movie. There are great battles, exciting hunts, and fast moments of intensity that all appear in a moment. Moreover, whenever there is killing – whether it is human or zombie – it takes care of carefully. With every mocking murder, the film slows down with a beating, and even throws a frozen frame at the time of death, only so do we understand the value of life on both sides. It’s a fun and effective tool used everywhere and you really feel like you are in the hands of a filmmaker with something to say.
Later, through circumstances slightly spoileria, Ralph Fiennes joins the story as the mysterious Dr. Kelson. Kelson’s story is fascinating, giving the film and its world a whole new perspective, which Fiennes brings to life beautifully. His introduction also marks yet another change in the film, this into almost spiritual existentialism. Welcome, it works, but it again adds to the slight inequality of the film after we cling to the story of a mother son.
That really is the only disadvantage to 28 years later. The characters are fantastic, the filming is amazing, the action is intense, and the story is emotional. It’s just so ambitious that there are only moments along the way where those shifts leave the movie a little demolished, almost as you turned the channel to something new. Whenever it happens, however, after a few minutes of confusion, we settle, because everything else around it is so good.
There are also scenes and ideas in the movie, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen explored in a zombie movie before. What would 28 years do without people to an ecosystem? What kind of human errors might have lasted during that time? What if some, human traits the zombies still carry with them? Is there a zombie command? 28 years later It is constantly on fire on all cylinders, but then also strikes you with a moment or idea that pushes things to a whole new level, and you almost want it to be almost about that.
28 years later Isn’t your typical zombie movie. The zombies in this world are unfortunate, undeniable reality and for 28 years they have evolved, as well as the surviving people. As a result, everything has a more based, remarkable sense of it, which makes it much more excited. Boyle and Garland then allow us to explore this world and its characters in a way that keeps us interested, guessing and entertaining all at once. Although the ending is not as strong as the rest of the film, fortunately, this is the first movie of a proposed trilogy, the second of them is in January. We can’t wait to go back. It is still so, so much to chew.
28 years later Opens on 20 June.
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