Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8045 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-05-19
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 113 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Anti-vivisection activists make a very bad judgment call and release an experimental monkey infected with "rage". 28 Days Later..., as the title has it, bicycle messenger Cillian Murphy wakes up from a post-traffic accident coma in a deserted London hospital, ventures out to find the city depopulated and the few remaining normal people doing everything to avoid the jittery, savage, zombie-like "infecteds" who attack on sight.

Our bewildered hero has to adjust to the loss of his family and the entire world, but hooks up with several others--including a tough black woman (Naomie Harris) and a likable London cabbie (Brendan Gleeson)--on a perilous trip northwards, to seek refuge at army officer Christopher Eccleston's fortified retreat. However, even if they survive the plague, the future of humanity is still in doubt.

Directed by Danny Boyle and scripted by novelist Alex Garland, this is a terrific SF/horror hybrid, evoking American and Italian zombie movies but also the very British end-of-the-world tradition of John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids) and Survivors. Shot on digital video, which gives the devastated cityscapes a closed-circuit-camera realism, this grips from the first, with its understandably extreme performances, its terrifyingly swift monster attacks and its underlying melancholy. Deliberately crude, 28 Days Later is also sometimes exceptionally subtle. --Kim Newman

DVD Description
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.

Synopsis
A deadly virus escapes from a research centre and within twenty eight days the entire country is infected with the exception of a few survivors... Together they try to build a future for themselves...

Customer Reviews

Simply brilliant
28 Days Later is such a wonderfully made film - if you can call a film full of death wonderful!?
As has been said in previous reviews, it has you on the edge of your seat throughout, has many 'jumpy bits' and is almost so realistic, that it does actually cause you to be very wary when it gets dark, especially if you're near a window with no curtains...
The acting is very good, and the film has many small twists that you don't see coming, and with the awesome special effects it is probably one of the best films of all time!

Lived down to my expectations
When I started to watch this film, I thought 'I bet this will be just another zombie film'. And it was.

So you could say it was my own fault that it turned out to be terrible, and that I watched it anyway.

However, I'd heard this one was a bit different, a zombie film with a British 'twist'. So I thought it would be satisfyingly bleak, and free of Hollywood clichés.

How wrong could I be....?

This one was clearly written by computer and acted by robots. It was full of tick-the-box characters and plot 'twists', and had the obligatory Hollywood ending.

There was so much that was so wrong about this film, it's difficult to choose the worst, but I suppose it has to be the way the British troops our hero meets and overcomes which takes the prize. Firstly, they were standard issue baddies. Secondly, I just don't buy the idea of an untrained unarmed civilian finding it so easy to beat a large bunch of trained squaddies.

The negative characterisation of the soldiers, from the madness of the obviously 'nazi' officer, to the stupidity, viciousness and incompetence of the squaddies probably ticks all the boxes for a certain, small, polictically correct media set. But it was horribly clichéd, and unforgivably unrealistic.

If it was possible to give 'nul points', this film would get them.

overated
starts out good,drags in the middle and is rubbish at the end and that sums the film up for me