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Private Joker's Head (Zach Ralston)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
The Cinema Source (Tom Johnson)
Movie Navigator (Shaun Sages)
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
28 Days Later is redolent with such playfulness... and yet its cleverness never overwhelms the visceral thrills. Like the best of its predecessors, it works on multiple levels, smart commentary walking hand in hand with funhouse scares. For ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
This is indisputably a genre picture, an apocalyptic thriller with social commentary built in -- "People kill each other all the time; this is nothing new" -- but it is also a surprisingly human film with some subtle, life-affirming strokes. Witness ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
True Movie Review (David Trier)
28 Days Later is a refreshingly touching film that is shocking without mocking. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at True Movie Review (David Trier)
MovieWeb (Carl Lazarevic)
Before I start this review I'd like to get a little rant off my chest, in order to watch this film I had to go up to the city center and watch it at a theatre that I absolutely hate going to. The place is so small, and there's a 10 minute wait between ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at MovieWeb (Carl Lazarevic)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
So, Danny Boyle is back, after the awful The Beach. This is a fine movie, one of the best in the horror genre to come out in some time. Boyle's ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Danny Boyle's new shocker is intense, disturbing, thought-provoking and clearly the horror movie of the year. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)
A raw, blistering and joyously uncompromising horror film. It's precisely what loyal Horror Freaks deserve, and it's easily one of the best movies of the year. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)
The Cinema Source (Tom Johnson)
Bubakar Awards (Brian Owens)
Bloody-Distgusting
28 DAYS LATER isnt for people who think SCREAM is the epitome of modern horror, or for someone who likes their horror served up on a predictable, well-polished silver plate. DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? is your favorite movie? Give this one a miss. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Bloody-Distgusting
The Cinema Source (Tom Johnson)
eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
Yet another example of how a small and talented cast, a great script, a relatively modest budget, and some inventive film making can render a far superior horror film. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (Danny Minton)
I don’t get scared very easily, but this movie almost made me wet my pants. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (Danny Minton)
The Cinema Source (Tom Johnson)
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
A swankily austere piece of jeepers-creepers sci-fi. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
Activists release animals from a lab, ignoring warnings that they are infected with a highly contagious "rage" virus. 28 days later, almost everyone is gone. Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up in a hospital bed and wanders out into the deserted London streets. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
Exhilarating, exciting and, thanks to its cool, mostly unknown leads and touches of black humor, is destined to be a hipster cult classic, much as Trainspotting was before it. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
Detroit News (Tom Long)
The rare horror film that splatters and pauses to consider the splatter, that follows a traditional storyline and then improves upon it, and that avoids cliches while playing one out. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Detroit News (Tom Long)
Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)
Manifests and maintains a drug-induced nightmare state of apocalyptic proportions. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)
Looking Closer (Jeffrey Overstreet)
Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
For the most part, 28 Days Later is a smart, vivid nightmare with refreshingly unconventional heroes. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Posits the question: who's more dangerous, the flesh-eating zombies or 'civilized' people? ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Citysearch (Erich Scholz)
Filmgoers may debate its allegory and sexual politics, but 28 Days Later is the real deal: a scary flick for uncertain times. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Citysearch (Erich Scholz)
The Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
A great movie and one that is destined to become a classic of the genre, or at least a cult one. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
UpcomingDiscs.com (David Annandale)
Screenshots Click to expand ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (David Annandale)
Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
pulpmovies.com (Paul Pritchard)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
It's The Wizard of Oz with a viral infection: In the magnificently scary 28 Days Later, a wayward group of souls tromp across a strange and dangerous land (they even pass through a field of Technicolor flowers), trying to find their way home ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
DVD Talk (G. Noel Gross)
Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
Boyle and his collaborators have made a scary and competent thriller; the times in which they forged it have transformed it into an uncanny mirror and a cautionary tale worth pausing over. It is easy enough, and in many senses justified, to ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Incidentally, a reader named Alan Maughan writes me to note that the period of 28 days is becoming rather significant in movies about the apocalypse, what with the title of this release and the warning of the giant bunny rabbit in last week's "Donnie ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
At one point in 28 DAYS LATER, a character makes the salient point that from a geological viewpoint, the reign of human beings on planet Earth is barely a blip on the radar of existence. Humans might, indeed, be thought of as an anomaly and their ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Monkeyboy Review
Danny Boyle claims in an interview about 28 Days Later that there are horrific things in it, but it's not a horror film as such. I dunno about you, Danny, but a film with horrific things in it sounds like a horror film to me. The fact that 28 Days Later ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Monkeyboy Review
Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Review by Mark Dujsik
Danny Boyle's 28
Days Later is an indictment of a world gone mad—mad with rage, fear, and
power—the zeal that has created and maintained it, and the apathy that has
resulted. It's about that thin
line between passion and ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Reel Movie Critic (Lee Shoquist)
The film starts off with a bang - a group of animal activists break into a covert laboratory in a misguided attempt to free a group of caged chimpanzees - only to discover the beasts to be diseased with "rage" and inadvertently release a ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Reel Movie Critic (Lee Shoquist)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
These B-movie thrills in post-apocalyptic England would make George Romero proud. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
EDGE Boston (David Foucher)
Gory, unsettling and downright suspenseful, this tour de force from the director of "Trainspotting" has moments of brilliance, but it’s just not scary enough. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at EDGE Boston (David Foucher)
Steve Rhodes
Almost the entire movie happens after Jim (Cillian Murphy), a bicycle courier, awakes from a coma in a London hospital. Having been 28 days since the original infection, London now appears completely deserted. Shocked, Jim stumbles around dazed, having ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Steve Rhodes
Josh Gilchrist
There's a formula that must be followed to make a good scary movie, and everyone has their own formula. Horror movies are a tricky concept since there's not one proven technique that will terrify everyone. This is why when a film is released which a ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Josh Gilchrist
Cinema em Cena (Pablo Villaça)
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Impressive, atmospheric and VERY scary, this is an extremely effective British horror movie – it falls apart towards the end, but by then you’ll be too scared to care.Alright. Hands up all those of you who’d written off Danny Boyle and the Trainspotting ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)
28 Days Later has been released in theaters in the United Kingdom, and is doing well, but it is still waiting for U.S. distribution, probably because Boyle's supposedly promising career went into a tailspin after Trainspotting. 28 Days Later is not good ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)
Zertinet Movies (Steven Snyder)
Every summer film season needs a horror flick, and 28 Days Later is the most daring and memorable addition to the genre in years.
It starts with an ominous prologue, showing a band of animal rights activists breaking into an animal testing ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Zertinet Movies (Steven Snyder)
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Natural Born Viewers (Andrew Mackay)
28 months later, after an appalling misstep with "The
Beach," Danny Boyle decides to step deep into horror/drama territory.
After all, finding your feet in horror is easy and, after colossal confusion
with "A Life Less Ordinary" ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Natural Born Viewers (Andrew Mackay)
Bob Bloom
Part Night of the Living Dead and part Omega Man, 28 Days Later follows the cataclysmic events when a powerful virus called Rage is accidentally unleashed on the British population.The virus is transmitted through blood and takes effect almost ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Bob Bloom
Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
It is Dod Mantle's visuals and Boyle's direction that are "28 Days Later's" greatest asset. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
CineMe (Daniel Meyer)
DVDActive (Brian Kelley)
A noteworthy film comes home to DVD in a better-than-average package. Fox has seen to it that the picture and sound quality are excellent so that viewers can enjoy the drama and the horror at home in its glory. While the extra features do contain a good ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at DVDActive (Brian Kelley)
Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
Animal activists break into a research lab to free some chimpanzees. Just seconds before they open the first cage, a scientist discovers them and tries to warn them that the chimps have been infected with "rage," a virus that makes them ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
MovieWeb (Brian Gallagher)
Seeing that this is the Summer of Sequels, it was refreshing to go to a movie that just has the number 2 in the title, and not following it. Although 28 Days Later isn't a sequel or remake, it does borrow material from other movies. But the movie is a ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at MovieWeb (Brian Gallagher)
MovieFreak.com (Dennis Landmann)
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Director Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting," "The Beach") makes great use of the digital video format (with Dogme favorite, Director of Photography Anthony Dod Mantle ("The Celebration") for his post-apocalyptic/undead 'zombie'/survival tale. "28 Days Later" ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Reel.com
The zombies of 28 Days Later call to mind George Romero 's graphic cult favorite Dawn of the Dead (1980). Widely regarded as a parable about the dangers of rampant consumerism, Dawn of the Dead depicts the plight of four people who take refuge in a ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Reel.com
CineMe (Daniel Meyer)
DVDActive (Pete Roberts)
Creativity has not been lost to short filmmakers and independent directors. With interesting ideas, creative ways of telling a story and an intelligent script there is definitely more scope to conjure up a successful film like 28 Days Later. Danny Boyle ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at DVDActive (Pete Roberts)
Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
Fresno Bee (Donald Munro)
A satisfying mix of shock, gore and dystopian suspense. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Fresno Bee (Donald Munro)
ToxicUniverse.com (Tony Pellum)
Though not entirely consistent, 28 Days Later... is successfully postmodern in its reappropriation on genre. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Tony Pellum)
filmcritic.com (Blake French)
Although its title might lead you to believe that they actually made a sequel to the awful Sandra Bullock movie about alcoholism, 28 Days Later is anything but a journey through rehab. In fact, the disturbing, grotesque nature of the film makes rehab ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at filmcritic.com (Blake French)
Lee's Movie Info (Lee Tistaert)
Days of Thunder (Travis Hoover)
Baltimore City Paper (Lee Gardner)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
I had forgotten film could possess such power to horrify and appall. I wasn't prepared for the spectre of so many beings robbed of humanity and intelligence. I can't believe anyone voluntarily sat through Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Luckily I ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
ToxicUniverse.com (Brandon Curtis)
28 Days Later isn't the horror picture you'd normally imagine. It's a meditation on the ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Brandon Curtis)
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
The end of the world has always been a popular theme for depiction on film. The demise of Earth, is usually caused by an alien invasion and the fear factor is minimal for the seasoned audience. Director Danny Boyle ( Trainspotting ) brings an all too ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
Mark R. Leeper
The story of 28 DAYS LATER involves a highly contagious virus that improbably reduces its victims to ravening killers in just twenty seconds. Society has fallen apart as the infected victims have warred on those not yet infected. Consider that the ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Mark R. Leeper
Susan Granger
Cut to 28 days later, when Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up naked in a hospital after a bicycle accident and discovers that the entire city is ominously deserted. Wandering aimlessly, he's rescued from "infected" attackers by two fellow survivors (Naomie ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Susan Granger
The Movie Chicks
Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma 28 days after suffering a bike injury only to find that the whole world (or at least England) has changed. He leaves the empty hospital and goes outside to find an empty London - except that it's not ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at The Movie Chicks
DVDActive (Benjamin Willcock)
If a horror movie with charming characters and a concept that ranks among the best of them isn’t enough to turn you on, then I don’t know what will. 28 Days Later might be an acquired taste for those seeking thrills and suspense but ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at DVDActive (Benjamin Willcock)
DVDActive (Richard Schuchardt)
28 Days Later dares to differ from your average Hollywood horror movie and this is the main reason for its success. The movie is thought-provoking and concentrates on the emotional states of the characters, rather than turning into a no-holds barred ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at DVDActive (Richard Schuchardt)
NYC Film Critic (Ethan Alter)
Bullz-Eye.com
"28 Days Later" is a brilliant and fresh horror film that is both scary and ingenious. While the film quality isn't the greatest due to the use of digital film, the lack of stars and its classic throwback feel to the early zombie movies creates a ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
Movie Gazette (Andrea Chee)
This shocking and disturbing British horror flick provides plenty of thrills and gripping tension. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Movie Gazette (Andrea Chee)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Shot entirely on digital video and vibrating with a low-budget intensity that enhances its stark intelligence and dark wit, Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is an uncanny mixture of straight-up zombie horror and postapocalyptic science fiction. In the last ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Well horror films are a dime an dozen when you see a
trailer for a horror film you wonder will it be good or will it suck. Lately
these has been some horrible horror movies, Like Wrong Turn, Final Destination
2, House of 1000 Corpses to name a few. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
That Cow (B. Kiefer)
This film is modern in style and most of it's story, although it could be based on a twisted Homeric Odyssey. If you know nothing about the movie, you may want to skip this review if you plan on seeing the movie. The film opens in a vivisection lab. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at That Cow (B. Kiefer)
Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones)
A friend who was at last week’s sneak of Alex & Emma related to me the story of a post-screening discussion between two strangers – one in favor of the film, one against – that grew so contentious that the dissenter ultimately spat on his sparring ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones)
Future Movies (Matt McAllister)
28 Days Later… (not to be confused with Sandra Bullock rehab comedy 28 Days or you could be in for some real shocks) is a serious attempt to resuscitate the British horror movie and to wrestle the zombie genre away from the realms of splatter comedy ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Future Movies (Matt McAllister)
filmfacts (Andreas Edler)
Moda Magazine (Brian Orndorf)
I also wasn't thrilled with the third act of the film, which features the interaction between Jim's group of survivors and the isolated military men who don't have much a clue to what's going on. Boyle gets a little ahead of himself here with some brief ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Moda Magazine (Brian Orndorf)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
I'm not going to bother trying to figure out all of the things which make little or no sense during the course of 28 Days Later, as they are not only impossible to explain given the little information we are given, but even some of the things which we kno ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
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Kalamazoo Gazette (James Sanford)
a nasty and nerve-wracking chiller... Murphy and Harris are both marvelous, and they're well-supported by Garland's screenplay... ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Kalamazoo Gazette (James Sanford)
Slasherpool (Fredrik Nordstrom)
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
Brisk, smart and often truly frightening. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
Arizona Republic (Bill Muller)
Has enough chills and thrills -- as well as plenty of nearly dead creatures -- to rank among the scariest and most ingenious horror movies in recent memory. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Arizona Republic (Bill Muller)
Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Derivative but horrifically effective. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Orlando Weekly (Steve Schneider)
It's a quality horror flick of the sort we're promised once or twice a year, but genuinely receive maybe four times per decade. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Orlando Weekly (Steve Schneider)
eFilmCritic.com (Oz)
Mixing a little social warning in with true guts-for-garters gore, he's put together a truly frightening film - not a scary movie. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Oz)
Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
Netflix (James Rocchi)
Trainspotting director Danny Boyle's digital-video zombie flick turns old cliches into grim, shiny new horrors. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
Projectionist (Sean Caszatt)
Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)
28 Days Later induces the sort of physical reactions that these days are more often incited by the nightly news than the latest monster flick. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)
Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)
Garland's script is taut and gritty, but it's not airtight; if Boyle gave us time to think, he'd lose us. Instead, he scares us (metaphorically) out of our wits. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)
Movieseer.com (Joel Quenby)
Constantly involving, this is the best purely British science-fiction/horror film in decades, and the first great apocalypse movie of this Millennium. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Movieseer.com (Joel Quenby)
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Daniel M. Kimmel)
[F]or the 'zombie' genre, [this] ranks with the very best: Dawn of the Dead and Evil Dead II . [G]enre fans will recognize this as very high praise indeed. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Daniel M. Kimmel)
UTK Daily Beacon (Brooks Brown)
DVD Review e-zine
BeyondHollywood.com
LeisureSuit Media
3 Black Chicks ("The Diva")
Hollywood Jesus Visual Reviews
Box Office Mojo (C.A. Wolski)
The Cranky Critic (Chuck Schwartz)
Cyber-Funk Online Review (Mirza mizi Causevic)
Sci-Fi Movie Page (James O'Ehley)
IndependentCritics.com (Jacob Hall)
Sci-Fi Movie Page (James O'Ehley)
Modamag.com - DVD Review (Kage Alan)
The Stop Button (Andrew Wickliffe)
DVD Authority.com ("Fusion3600")
RevolutionSF (Jason Myers)
Deranged Video Dude (Robert Wurth)
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JoBlo's Movie Emporium (JoBlo)
Palo Alto Weekly (Jim Shelby)
National Post (Katrina Onstad)
In a big-budget, star-studded summer, Boyle has made a cheap monster movie with a cast of nobodies, and it gives the first genuine jolt of the season. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at National Post (Katrina Onstad)
Entertainment Online (David Friend)
Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
The genuine article, a hard-core horror picture from start to finish...Prepare to get seriously stressed. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
The end of the world has always simultaneously fascinated and repulsed human beings. No less an authority than the Bible devotes entire books to the last days. And, since almost the beginning of science fiction, the apocalypse has been a popular subject. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
This starkly beautiful, harrowing journey into the worst that can happen opens with video feed images of our unnatural disasters. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Judith Egerton)
28 Days Later is a zombie movie and a rather good one. For one thing, it has enough cinematic style to keep it from being laughably cheesy. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Judith Egerton)
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Stellar acting by two relative unknowns but overly quick editing distances us from the scares. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Movie Eye (Frank Ochieng)
...Grippingly grotesque...Boyle’s surly and hellish sideshow is profoundly intoxicating in its tangy ugly creepiness. 28 Days Later is ruefully soulful in its scruffy flamboyance ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Movie Eye (Frank Ochieng)
Kvikmyndir.com (Hallur Orn Jonsson)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Someone must have forgotten to tell director Danny Boyle the unwritten rules of movie zombies. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
This is an effective examination of what survival really entails – and it knows that the answers aren’t necessarily pleasant. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
San Jose Mercury News (Glenn Lovell)
This is the stuff of which night tremors are made. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at San Jose Mercury News (Glenn Lovell)
Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
[Boyle's] choice of mostly unknown actors is so disturbingly effective that when we eventually come across Brendan Gleeson..., it's a relief just to see a familiar face. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
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New York Post (Megan Lehmann)
An unsettling and thought-provoking vision of a post-apocalyptic future. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at New York Post (Megan Lehmann)
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)
It's that stuff that lingers. The movie is swift and exciting, but it gradually takes on a melancholy mood, a feeling that its scenario is too probable to be passed off as merely escapist entertainment. Movie critic Chris Hewitt can be reached at ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)
Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
These zombies aren’t just gruesome, they’re terrifying. They don’t wander around slowly. They come flying at you at full sprint. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
...suggests civilization is a thin facade. Underneath, it's survival of the most furious. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
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Atlantic City Weekly (Lori Hoffman)
... it’s just so unpretentious and terrifying – with cheeky moments of humor ... you relish the fun as you jump out of your skin. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Atlantic City Weekly (Lori Hoffman)
USA Today (Claudia Puig)
An edge-of-your-seat scary movie that startles and chills. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)
Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
"28 Days Later" begins with a platoon of animal rights activists barging into a British lab to free the poor primates being experimented on there. Terrified warnings from technicians fail to stop them, and soon the chimps are on the loose, spreading the ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Hits all the right buttons of a satisfying end-of-the-world yarn. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Boyle and his remarkable cast play the material seriously, with an atmospheric soundtrack adding a sense of poetry and lyricism. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Newsday (Gene Seymour)
It's no Night of the Living Dead , but it's almost as scary and just as smart. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Newsday (Gene Seymour)
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (Bob Bloom)
28 Days Later is one of those textbook movies proving you can shock and scare an audience without resorting to lopping off heads or limbs, and that the camera can be as lethal a weapon as any automatic firearm, sword or machete. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (Bob Bloom)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Forget viruses and bioterror; the modern world, Boyle suggests, is enough to turn us into 'the Infected'... ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies (Greg Dean Schmitz)
I've never seen a vampire... but a gang of swarming, bloodthirsty people... now that's scary. And so is this movie. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies (Greg Dean Schmitz)
Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
To each his own apocalypse, so to speak, but Danny Boyle has come up with a whopper. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)
a wild cocktail of campy, gory fun ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)
Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews
Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
If 28 Days Later falls short of classic horror movie status, Boyle pokes the genre with a sharp enough stick to prove it has some nasty life in it yet. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
28 Days Later is dark, the video quality is dubious (it was shot on digital video to curtail cost and provide a grittier look), and the subject matter is familiar. But the filmmakers counter these questionable qualities with solid ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (Nick Rogers)
One of the year’s finest, 28 Days Later pushes forth all the scream-and-jump fun of a horror flick, but offers a human resonance that lingers longer than any of the scares. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (Nick Rogers)
Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
A movie that, in the best horror tradition, leaves much to the imagination while scaring the bejesus out of you. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
[Boyle's] back on British turf here and in fine dark form. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
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This is a film which is driven by story, not violence. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Josh Gilchrist)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Set in an evacuated London decimated by a virus, the film, shot with nerve-frying effectiveness on digital video -- creeps you out big-time. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
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In Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, a gypsy tells Jonathan Harker that "the dead travel fast." When you see HOW fast the zombies are in this film, you'll believe it. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at MovieCrypt.com (Kevin A. Ranson)
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
A horrifically violent, apocalyptic treatment on rage and human survival in the face of destructive chaos. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
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Don't go expecting a zombie film, but if you want to be scared, it's something to see. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Zap2it.com (Michael Szymanski)
Internet Reviews (Steve Rhodes)
An edge-of-your-seat thriller that has as much to offer to your mind as it does your adrenaline glands. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Internet Reviews (Steve Rhodes)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
28 Days Later is either perfectly timed or unfortunately so, but is chilling in either case. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
Denver Rocky Mountain News (Robert Denerstein)
28 Days Later may be too obvious to score a knockout, but it's calibrated to satisfy genre fans, of whom there are many. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Denver Rocky Mountain News (Robert Denerstein)
Hollywood.com (Guylaine Cadorette)
Danny Boyle injects his contemporary horror pic 28 Days Later with an interesting twist that, in a fearful post 9/11, anthrax and smallpox era, seems strangely fitting. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Hollywood.com (Guylaine Cadorette)
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28 months later, after an appalling misstep with "The
Beach," Danny Boyle decides to step deep into horror/drama territory.
After all, finding your feet in horror is easy and, after colossal confusion
with "A Life Less Ordinary" ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Natural Born Viewers (James Chappell)
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You could call this Outbreak of the Living Dead, as it takes the idea of a deadly virus and merges it with marauding zombies. Only these zombies don't stumble around blankly; they run and spit and snarl and flash their beady red eyes! The film opens ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
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A while back, about a month or so, a friend and yours truly were heading out for a night on Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, a run to the casino and so forth when my friend’s mother, seriously mind you, said, “don’t catch SARSâ€. Man alive, I ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at In Review (Adam Suraf)
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Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later.This nasty little zombie thriller was directed by Tommy Doyle, the cunning bloke who made Trainspotting. He has once again created a film of surprising narrative and jarring visuals, which begins with a bang and only runs ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Palo Alto Online (Jim Shelby)
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The very opening scene is actually the best in the story. A group of radical animal rights people break into a lab to free the imprisoned chimps. They take pictures to show the clueless masses outside, but ignoring the warnings of the caretaker who ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Harvey S. Karten
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28 days later Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakes from a coma in a London hospital. The room is suspiciously silent. Curious, he detaches himself from the intravenous and walks into the hallway. The hospital is empty. He walks onto the city streets to find ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at David Friend
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Then again, 28 Days Later isn’t a true-spirited low budget horror film. It’s a studio-backed experiment made by a man who has spent 50 million dollars and directed Leonardo DiCaprio. That works both for and against the movie. It has the ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
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28 Days Later marks a return to form for director Danny Boyle, albeit a slight one. After making one of the greatest films of the 1990s (in my humble opinion), Trainspotting, Boyle then went on to direct the utter disaster, A Life Less Ordinary (one of ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at CinemaSpeak.com (Warren Curry)
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Reuniting after the cinematic debacle known as The Beach, once-hip director Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting) and The Beach’s novelist cum screenwriter Alex Garland have decided to indulge in zombie horror. Actually, given that ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at d+kaz. Intelligent Movie Reviews (Daniel Kasman)
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The animal rights activists move through the darkened lab, dressed in black like ideological ninjas. As they head for the chimp enclosures, a researcher appears in their path, warning them that the apes are highly infectious and very, very dangerous. No ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Boston Globe
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Activists set lab animals free from their cages--only to learn, too late, that they're infected with a "rage" virus that turns them into frothing, savage killers. The virus quickly spreads ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
After fizzling with "The Beach", Danny Boyle makes a solid comeback with "28 Days Later" - a film which had all the potential of being just another post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror clone of the likes of "The Omega Man", and while its not deftly original ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
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Althogh the digital video looks pretty cheesy, it works well to make the images look strikingly surrealistic. The creature effects are especially good. The red, glowing eyes, and rapid, shaking movements of the creatures make them look pretty scary. I'm ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
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Look, I have nothing against old zombie movies. Night of the Living Dead (1968), with that great opening in the cemetery, still gets me. And I Walked With a Zombie (1943) is a curdler worth dusting off for a midnight rental. But here's the thing: The ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
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I thoroughly recommend this film to any human being on the face of the planet, and especially those of you who share a passion for the horror genre. It has always been my favorite and will continue to be as long as talented directors keep churning our ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at The Popkorn Junkie
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I'm not going to bother trying to figure out all of the things which make little or no sense during the course of 28 Days Later, as they are not only impossible to explain given the little information we are given, but even some of the things which we kno ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
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A virus that turns those infected into raging killers is accidentally released from a lab and spreads everywhere, decimating humanity. It requires only one drop of blood or fluid from an infected person to infect another. Twenty-eight days later four ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at kids-in-mind
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There are some scary moments, but they are few and far between. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Supercala.com (John Venable)
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Un film fort intéressant, mais malheureusement incomplet. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Panorama (Jean-François Vandeuren)
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Danny Boyle’s "28 Days Later†is a stunning film; literally resurrecting the tired zombie genre from its grave. Shot on video, the movie has a low-budget feel that delivers on a gritty level, making even the sunniest scenes appear dark as there ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Aggressive-Voice.com - Movie Reviews
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Three animal rights activists break into a research laboratory. Just as they're about to free the cruellytreated creatures inside, a meek scientist tries to stop them. "The chimps are infected, they're highly contagious." he says. "Infected with what?" ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>
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Decent, but nothing spectacular. Boyle finally makes a good movie after Trainspotting but its heavy-handed military complex third act bogs down a taut, terrifying first and second act. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Hollywood Bitchslap (James E. Laczkowski)
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Horror fans take note: Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is the real deal. This genuinely scary post-apocalyptic zombie movie is indebted to the traditions of John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids) and George Romero (Dawn of the Dead), opening with its young ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Slant Magazine
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"Its power lies in how topical is its message." ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
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28 Days Later opens up to sequences of ingenious dynamite that strike us with a pure, inventive impression. During the middle, it hits a few of the right notes, and ranges from being blatantly average, to capturing a serenely emotional, complex tale. At ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
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I applaud the film's acting, impulse and construction, but there's a third act narrative choice that badly miscalculates the realistic interplay of its subjects and timeline, effectively sabotaging the momentum and integrity of the film. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Entertainment Today (Brent Simon)
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An unsettling, creepy experience, complete with very strange sound editing and eerie musical choices that accent the offbeat post-apocalyptic imagery remarkably. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Film Threat (Rich Cline)
Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
28 Days Later is not only monumentally creepy, it also has a sense of almost-reality, the feeling that what goes on could happen if given the right circumstances. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Reign of Fire meets The Return of the Living Dead - a horror flick with considerable character development within an apocalyptic vision on a shoe-string budget from the Brits. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
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As a parable of human nature under extreme duress, 28 Days Later is never less than interesting. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
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This post-epidemic survival horror is the zombie-thrasher Resident Evil wanted to be ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Peterborough This Week (Mike Sage)
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What 28 Days Later lacks in budget it more than makes up in grainy style and unrelenting tension. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Jam! Movies (Louis B. Hobson)
Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
Director Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have rebounded smartly from the bloated Leonardo DiCaprio debacle that was The Beach , their previous collaboration. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
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An at times scary movie that makes you think while it entertains. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Lee's Movie Info (Gareth J. Von Kallenbach)
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This unrelenting horror tale's paranoid genius lies in equating free-floating wrath and physical sickness. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Film Threat (Rick Kisonak)
Manages to be impressively unsettling given the flaws in its foundation. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Film Threat (Rick Kisonak)
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Un habile mélange d'horreur, de science-fiction, drame et suspense. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Showbizz.net (Nicolas Lacroix)
Sunday Times (Australia) (Shannon J. Harvey)
. As far as zombie movies go, its $14-million budget must make it the most sophisticated flesh-muncher movie ever put to screen. . ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Sunday Times (Australia) (Shannon J. Harvey)
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The lines between intent and ineptitude are often virtually indistinguishable in Danny Boyle’s lackluster low-budget “zombie” flick 28 Days Later. In the lame prologue, animal rights activists accidentally loose a highly contagious virus that unleashes ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
It's unpleasant stuff, told without winks or humor, and it's so perfectly pitched that you can't take your eyes off it, even if this sort of hard-edged horror isn't exactly your cup of Diet Coke. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
The movie's great fun, but don't get any on you. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
A fine contrast of surreal loveliness and video-shot gore. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
It’s easy to see trash like “House of 1,000 Corpses” or “Wrong Turn” for what it is, because it makes no claim to be anything more than nasty junk; it’s more difficult to perceive that a film like this, with false pretensions--like the previous ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
The operatic gore eventually goes over the top. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Not impressed. I'm not sure if my final thoughts on this film have much to do with my expectations going in, but from everything I'd heard, this movie was a damn good time, with TRAINSPOTTING's director Danny Boyle grabbing a bunch of zombies and ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Manly Men's Movie Reviews (Matthew Mason)
As the Manly Men gathered in the lobbies after any kind of film it became clear that each of us often took something different from the same experience. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Manly Men's Movie Reviews (Matthew Mason)
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The first half of the movie shows a lot of promise, we really liked the premise. But it built up the tension and then just kind of wandered into the weeds as the story started to drift onto ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Movies for Guys
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Not all that scary, but George Romero would love it. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Cinerina (Karina Montgomery)
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FilmJerk.com (Chris Faile)
The first act shows a raw intensity— so much so, I was ready for a cigarette after the first 30 minutes...unfortunately, the remainder fails to live up to its opening scenes. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at FilmJerk.com (Chris Faile)
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The scariest thing about Danny Boyle's film is the surprisingly large percentage of people seemingly infected by its cheap and shoddy plagiarism. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at Movie Boeuf (David N. Butterworth)
iofilm.co.uk (The Wolf)
Character development has been dumped with the last remnants of logic. ...read the complete 28 Days Later... movie review at iofilm.co.uk (The Wolf)
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