28 Days Later 2002 123movies

Watch: 28 Days Later 2002 123movies, Full Movie Online – Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind’s savage nature..
Plot: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs — and it’s absolutely impossible to contain.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 416,050
	87% | RottenTomatoes
	73/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 5643 Popularity: 43.013 | TMDB

Reviews:

_28 Days Later_ was made on a very small budget in the early days of digital cinema, so, yes, in retrospect, it does look a little bit like it was shot on a Nokia 3310, and yes, it is heavily responsible for the bilious deluge of zombie movies we got in its wake, which we are only now finally recovering from – but it’s so **good**.

_Final rating:★★★★ – Very strong appeal. A personal favourite._

One of the best zombie movies ever made with many of the genre’s “firsts:”

1. The first that begins with an actual explanation of what created the zombie plague.
2. The first to introduce a fast-moving “infected” horde, ratching up the tension significantly.
3. The first to infect people instantly (within seconds).

It also has one of the best movie scores, one that rivals those from John Carpenter classics “Halloween” and “The Thing.” It is striking how the music can elevate a movie or a scene.

The biggest issue, which to be fair, is not something Danny Boyle and his crew could have foreseen, is that it was shot in low quality SD, making it nearly unwatchable on large screen modern HD or 4K TV’s.

A modern classic.
Perhaps I’m a little biased. After all, this is set in the city I live and work in, and seeing Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus, which I pass by every morning and which are usually teeming with crowds of people, completely empty was enough to send shivers down my spine. Usually when you watch a movie like this it’s located in some nondescript Midwestern village, which makes it easy to detach yourself from the events unfolding on screen. But seeing them occur in the place you call home is something that gives it an entirely new sense of reality, and one I was previously unaccustomed to.

Still, judging 28 Days Later entirely on its merit as a film, it’s easy to arrive at the conclusion that it’s a fantastic achievement, as well as a coming-of-age of sorts for director Danny Boyle; I can’t say the MTV-inspired vanity of The Beach, or the self-consciously trendy posturing of Trainspotting appealed to me, and to my shame I initially expected 28 Days Later to be given a similar treatment. Thankfully, my fears proved unfounded, discarded straight after a opening sequence which is at once effortless and fearsome. The rest of the movie was a joy. A terrifying joy, but a joy nonetheless.

It’s true that sometimes minimalism can be more effective than overblown bravado, and it’s definitely true for this movie. It’s the scenes of complete silence which get to you the most; an entire metropolis empty. The grainy picture serves to add a documentary-style quality to the film, which makes the whole situation seem almost too real to bear. Definitely a wise choice to film this on digital video.

You will occasionally meet people who thought 28 Days Later wasn’t ‘scary’ or ‘gory’ enough. These are the same people who will tell you that 2001 was ‘boring’, or that Memento was ‘confusing’. Ignore them. Others didn’t understand the purpose of the second half, or were confused by its change of pace, feeling that it distracted from the movie as a whole. However, I personally regard the second half as very important because, as another reviewer pointed out, it makes a very succinct point: What is scarier, the end of the world, or having the world repopulated by maniacs? That, I think, is where the real Horror of 28 Days Later lies.

28 Days Later, like the Romero zombie flicks of yore, is ultimately an allegory of the days we are living in, an age in which we are constantly confronted with violence by the media (much like the ape right at the start of the film), where violence begets violence, and humanity faces an uncertain future. I applaud Danny Boyle’s bravery in making 28 Days Later because he undoubtedly took a big commercial risk when the majority of the cinema-going public might prefer escapism to words of caution. Remember, Rage is a human-made disease. Quite the allegory there.

Like most great masterpieces of their time, 28 Days Later has been misunderstood by a considerable amount of people. I have no doubt it will go down in history as a classic, the one movie which perfectly sums up the confused era we are living in. And even if you didn’t like it, it would be advisable to give 28 Days Later another chance; it’s a haunting experience when looked at from the right angle. Danny Boyle has many years left in him, I hope he’ll continue making more movies like this.

Very Good In Places But Ultimately Unconvincing
Long before I watched 28 DAYS LATER I had an online conversation with a couple of my cyber friends Jeremy and Riquez . Jeremy praised the movie thinking it was one of the best film releases in several years . I did point out to him the ridiculous idea that a virus with an incubation period of 20 seconds wouldn’t be able to cause the type of havoc as featured in the movie . Riquez contributed to the conversation by saying ” Theo you have no problem with rabid zombies but you find a virus with an incubation period of 20 seconds ridiculous ! ” After finally seeing 28 DAYS LATER ( Thanks for the video Robin ) my reservations were confirmed , the audience can quite happily accept the concept of raging psychos tearing up the country destroying all in their path but the thought put into small details spoils the film somewhat

!!!!! SPOILERS !!!!!

Most of the problems lie in Alex Garland’s script , it lacks depth , logic and internal continuity . Take for example the line where Selena tells Jim that the apocalypse was caused by something in the blood . How would she know this ? This is an example of characters knowing what’s happening because the screenwriter does which is a mistake on Alex Garland’s part . The reverse is also very true with characters being unable to work out things the audience has . Before seeing the movie I did have online conversations on the message board that a virus that takes 20 seconds to turn people into zombies wouldn’t be able to spread world wide , indeed this is central to the plot and Sgt Farrell does state that ” How does the infection spread across the oceans , mountains and rivers ? ” and yet he’s the only character in the story to draw this very obvious conclusion that only mainland Britain has been struck by rage . It would have been far less obvious if Selena and others had been totally ignorant as to the mechanics of infection

As for the gaps in logic ask yourself this: If the soldiers want to keep Selena and Hannah as sex slaves why didn’t they murder Jim as soon as they saw him ? I guess if they did we wouldn’t have a story , but the screenplay is full of these niggling problems , like Jones and Mitchell getting into a fight so Jim can escape or West and Davies going to the barricade to kill Jim when they’ve got everything they need ( ie Selena and Hannah ) at the house . There’s no reason for the soldiers to care about killing Jim

I also had a problem with the characterisation . Selena is shown as being tough as nails and totally ruthless at the start of the story and then needs rescuing by Jim at the end . Compare her to characters in say a John Christopher story where the protagonist starts off as middle class and mild mannered and ends up having to kill to survive . This is what happens to Jim but it seems a totally ridiculous character arc as he wipes out West’s platoon . Jim has spent a month in a coma , has no military experience and manages to beat some squaddies who not only managed to survive mass attacks of the infected but had considerable battle experience before rage . I’m telling you Saddam must be kicking himself about not recruiting any bicycle couriers into the Iraqi army

I will absolve Garland of any blame for the bizarre upbeat ending where Jim survives a bullet wound to the stomach and lives happily ever after with Selena and Hannah since the studio demanded a happy ending for their audience . Let’s be honest here , the only ending that would have made sense is Jim dying and the two girls facing an uncertain future with rage turning into a pandemic holocaust

I don’t want to give the impression that I hated 28 DAYS LATER . I liked it a lot and will praise director Danny Boyle for making a tense and often very thrilling film . The use of digital video succeeds and the cinematography is breath taking especially the scenes set at the rain drenched roadblock where you can almost see every single raindrop falling pass the screen . The casting is somewhat uneven ( The French foreign legion isn’t that cosmopolitan never mind the British army ) but mention must go to Ricci Harnett as Cpl Mitchell who plays one of cinema’s most memorable thugs in a long time , Leo Bill might give an irritating performance as Jones but that’s the way he’s written , Naomie Harris is impressive where she’s not let down by the script and the only real disappointment is Christopher Ecclestone as Major West who seems slightly miscast

I gave 28 DAYS LATER seven out of ten but to be honest this should have been so much better . One can’t help thinking Boyle would have been better off filming an adaptation of John Christopher’s THE DEATH OF GRASS . As it stands it’s a very good example of if a film is good it’s because of the director . If it’s bad it’s because of the screenwriter

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min)
Budget 5000000
Revenue 85720385
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Danny Boyle
Writer Alex Garland
Actors Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston
Country United Kingdom
Awards 10 wins & 32 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1 (original ratio), 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses, Canon XL-1, Canon EC and EJ Prime Lenses with Optex adapter
Laboratory Technicolor, UK, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), London, UK
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (final scene), Video (PAL), 8 mm (flashback scene)
Cinematographic Process D1, DV, Spherical, Super 8
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)