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28 Days Later (2002) - Special Edition


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Four out of Five

Movie

Rating: R (strong violence and gore, language and nudity)
Length: 113 minutes

Video

Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 2.0
SPANISH: Dolby Digital 2.0

Captions

English, Spanish

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Plot

A man wakes up from a coma in a London Hospital. There's nobody around; even the streets are empty. He reads the headlines on a paper in the street about a virus and the next thing he knows he's running away from some deranged people for his life.

Pros

This isn't your standard horror/survivor movie; it actually goes much deeper than that. The character development is well thought out; you actually care about whether or not these people live as opposed to how gruesome their death will be. The cause for the people to turn isn't some unexplained reason casually blamed on a meteor or some other phenomenon; man did it to himself.

Cons

When the action kicks in, be prepared to adjust the volume on your set/system. The audio level when there's no action is fairly low so you'll want to turn it up to hear everything clearly; unfortunately when the action kicks in your speakers will literally knock you out of your chair.

Extras

  • Audio Commentary by Director Danny Boyle and Writer Alex Garland
  • 3 Alternate Endings
  • Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary
  • "Pure Rage": The Making of 28 Days Later Featurette
  • Jacknife Lee Music Video
  • Animated Storyboards
  • Still Photo Galleries

Recommendation

A horror movie with a realistic plot and believable characters; what a nice change of pace. There's still plenty of gore for those of you that enjoy gore (myself included), but it's mixed in with reality which is unusual by today's standards. And if you're already paranoid and believe the world is screwed up, check out the "Pure Rage" featurette to help fuel your paranoia even more.

Director

Danny Boyle   [Sunshine, Trainspotting]

Actors

Megan Burns - Hannah
Bindu De Stoppani - Activist
Alexander Delamere - Mr. Bridges
Christopher Dunne - Jim's Father
Brendan Gleeson - Frank
[Cold Mountain, Gangs of New York, Lake Placid, Mission Impossible II, Troy, The Village]
Justin Hackney - Infected Kid
Naomie Harris - Selena
[After the Sunset, Miami Vice, POTC: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End]
Jukka Hiltunen - Activist
Emma Hitching - Jim's Mother
Noah Huntley - Mark
[Event Horizon]
Kim McGarrity - Mr. Bridges' Daughter
Cillian Murphy - Jim
[Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Sunshine]
Alex Palmer - Activist
David Schneider - Scientist
Toby Sedgwick - Infected Priest

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