28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)
by Danny Boyle
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Actor: Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston, Lisa I'Anson, Naomie Harris, Ray PanthakiDirector: Danny Boyle
Brand: TCFHE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of 28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Hello
Summary: 1 Stars
Warning - Movie spoilers below.
I really wanted to like this film but it defies common sense.
First there is the rehashed storyline of animal rights activist releasing infected primates from a laboratory.
However, the defies common sense begins when Jim, a bicycle courier, wakes up after being hit by a car. Jim understandably YELLS for a nurse and when no one shows, pulls out his IV, gets dressed and walks outside his room looking for help. He sees evidence of violence everywhere and no people and without ascertaining whether the perpetrators were still around and whether the hospital staff have good reason to hide, Jimbo yells HELLO up and down the corridors while viewers cringe. Why is Jim smart enough to gather/stock up the sodas/food from a broken hospital vending machine but this same prudence didn't compel him to be stealthy until he could figure out who/what caused all the violence? And why, when he is recovering from a coma/painful head injury and bleeding from a pulled out IV, didn't he yell HELP instead of HELLO? And why, when he looks outside and sees a dead body next to an ambulance and someone walking in the background, didn't he yell HELLO to that moving someone if he felt safe to yell it everywhere else? Instead, Jimbo walks out into the streets sees overturned buses, more obvious violence and front line newspapers screaming danger and proceeds to YELL HELLO again. No prudent person would do this. Jim then wonders into a church, see lots of dead bodies and several people moving about suspiciously and while the prudent person might wait quietly to see who are the good guys versus the bad, this idiot yells HELLO at the top of lungs again. He didn't yell hello when he sees one dead person by an ambulance with a single person walking by but feels its just fine to yell HELLO in a church full of dead bodies with several moving people? Not un-expectantly he attracts Ragers and is saved by Mark and Serene who up to this point survived quite well without Dumbo around but they decide to save him and he rewards them by YELLING over and over again as they are running "What is going on" giving away their position. Once in their hideaway, Jim bangs and yells on their window possibly giving their position and crying he wants his mommy and daddy-like they don't care about their families.
At this point, one wonders if both the Rage and Dumbo's stupidity isn't contagious because Selena and Mark stupidly placate Dumbo and risk their lives taking him home only to discover his parents committed suicide. Now prudence would again dictate that everyone sleep in the same room but this Dumbo suggests sleeping in separate rooms and is overruled by Selena. Then this idiot defies logic again and proceeds to watch home movies of his parents with the TV on loud and flickering though the windows. Dumbo also carries a flickering candle. If there is electricity to run home videos, why was he using candles? Predictably the Ragers are attracted to the noise/light, break in and Mark and Selena wake up and save Dumbo's life again while he cowers. Mark is bitten and is killed by Selena while Jim stupidly/cowardly watches. Selena is now stuck with a weak ninny of a partner instead of Mark. She even has to tell Dumbo to get his clothes and get ready to leave as more infected will come thanks to him.
Selena and Dumbo see apartment building lights and head there. Dumbo lost his bag of food and carries only a bat while Selena carries both a weapon and a food/medicine backpack. As they climb the apartment stairs, they hear the infected and Selena hauls butt but Dumbo repeatedly YELLS WAIT UP pinpointing to the infected exactly where they are. Dumbo and Selena are saved by an apartment survivor named Frank but to their discredit leave him alone to fight off the monsters they led to him. Frank survives and he and Hannah, his child, give them shelter in their apartment. Frank took the calculated risk that even though his Christmas lights would attract the infected, they might also attract people to help him escape the building with his daughter as they could not do it alone. Bad luck for Frank's small family to hook up with Dumbo.
Wise Hannah and proven survivors Selena and Frank have to persuade wimpy fearful Dumbo to leave the apartment and go to an advertised military location. They escape in a taxi which Frank drives like a tank until they have flat tire. With Frank and Jim lifting the taxi, Hannah and Selena change the tire and they barely escape the ragers.
At this point, again one wonders if Jim's stupidity isn't contagious because survive by their wits up to this point Hannah, Frank and Selena behave stupidly. After barely escaping, they stop at a large glass fronted grocery store where they do not post a look out but instead joyously run wildly up and down the aisles making lots of noise in full view of the street and luck is with them - no infected. Later, they stop at a parked gas tanker and this time Selena smartly acts as a lookout while Frank siphons gas and Hannah is told to stay safely inside the taxi. Predictably Dumbo leaves the group to wonder around alone jokingly looking for a "cheeseburger" after Marlene tells him to stick together. Dumbo walks into the gas station, sees a dead body with evidence of violence all around proceeds to do what he does best YELL HELLO! This time he is attacked.
Later, they all sleep outside in the open, defying common sense, and build a nice fire to attract lots of monsters but luckily none show up. Even more stupidly, Dumbo wakes up Selena to ask how she is sleeping when he and Hannah cannot. Defying life and death common sense, the normally smart Selena gives Dumbo Valium and Dumbo persuades the normally smart Frank to let him give young Hannah Valium also. Dumbo laughingly says they won't care if they get attacked now. Monsters are crawling all over and they take Valium? Worse, Frank stays up all night keeping watch and Dumbo and Selena don't offer to spot him. Next day Frank is cranky from lack of sleep and gets angry when there is no one at the military area. Frank goes off by himself, gets annoyed by a crow and kicks a wall causing a drop of blood to fall into his eye from a hanging body infecting him. Selena doesn't have her weapon and yells at Dumbo to kill Frank with his bat and the idiot hesitates so soldiers kill Frank.
The contrived "romance" between Selena/Jim insulted viewer intelligence. Their kiss was reminiscent of the kiss between Marie Presley/Michael Jackson.
The soldiers take them to their compound where the major actually cups Dumbo's head in his hand like a child treating him exactly like the moron he is. And, one realizes if Hannah and Selena hadn't been with Jim, this major would put Jim (with his large expressive eyes/hairless body/delicate frame) into a pink striped kitchen smock and forced him into the existing "role" the cook there was already performing.
It defies viewer's logic to believe this ineffective wimpy Dumbo escapes the soldiers (and later miraculously his large black plastic or metal handcuffs) and saves the girls from being sex slaves. They escape; settle in a not so safe place as cameras pan in on roaming monsters and then pan in on child Hannah working outside all alone. Viewers cringe again as no reasonable adult would allow this.
Naturally, they make a huge sign to signal a plane and the sign doesn't say SOS or HELP but says HELLO! Defies common sense.
NOTE: Wikipedia says there were 3 other endings to this movie made all of which ended with Jim dying. One of them with Jim dying to save Mark's life. The producers should have stuck with the one of these.
Description of 28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)
AFTER A VIRUS WIPES OUT MOST OF THE PLANET, A HANDFUL OFSURVIVORS TRY TO SAVE THE HUMAN RACE FROM EXTINCTIONThe director/producer team that created Trainspotting turn their dynamic cinematic imaginations to the classic science fiction scenario of the last people on Earth. Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma to find London deserted--until he runs into a mob of crazed plague victims. He gradually finds other still-human survivors (including Naomie Harris), with whom he heads off across the abandoned countryside to find the source of a radio broadcast that promises salvation. 28 Days Later is basically an updated version of The Omega Man and other post-apocalyptic visions; but while the movie may lack originality, it makes up for it in vivid details and creepy paranoid atmosphere. 28 Days Later's portrait of how people behave in extreme circumstances--written by novelist Alex Garland (The Beach)--will haunt you afterward. Also featuring Brendan Gleeson (The General, Gangs of New York) and Christopher Eccleston (Shallow Grave, The Others). --Bret Fetzer
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