Wednesday, March 21, 2007

28 Days Later (2002)

Synopsis (with MAJOR spoilers): Some animal rights activists free some infected lab animals who then spread a disease that causes the infected to behave violently and bite others thus contaminating them. Soon everyone is infected except for a few. A guy wakes up in a hospital not knowing what has happened. He goes out and sees a deserted London. Later he meets a woman and a guy who are not infected. The guy gets infected and is killed by the woman. Then they encounter a dad and his teenage girl. They hear a radio transmission telling of a camp that promises the 'solution to infection' and head to the appointed place. Arriving there, the dad gets infected by blood dripping from a corpse on a roof. He is shot dead by soldiers coming from the camp. Then they all follow him and the other soldiers to the camp. There they soon find out that the women were lured there with the sole purpose of serving as sexual objects to the soldiers. The guy doesn't go along with it and is sentenced to death, but escapes. Later he returns to the camp to find out that an infected prisoner they were keeping there has escaped and is attacking everyone in sight. He manages to rescue the two women and they flee the camp but the guy gets shot. The women treat him and he gets well. Soon the infected are all dead from starvation. The three uninfected survivors signal to a plane to rescue them.
Appraisal: Derivative horror that didn't really impress me much. The cinematography is fine, and the film is well filmed and well edited. All in all, just average entertainment, nothing to take home, at least not for me.
Rating: 48

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