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Critics Think 28 Years Later Has Lots of Braaaains
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland bring you their version of a summer blockbuster: a rumination on death.
“The world may have left England to rot (a subplot involving a foreign soldier implies that other nations have taken an active interest in helping that process along), but any society that allows an entire country to become an open-air graveyard is sick with a terrible virus of its own. While Boyle isn’t lofty enough to suggest that the infected are beautiful creatures who deserve God’s love or whatever (this is still a movie about wild-eyed naked zombies, after all, and its empathy for them only goes so far), 28 Years Later effectively uses the tropes of its genre to insist that the line between a tragedy and a statistic is thinner than we think, and more permeable than we realize.” —David Erlich, IndieWire It still delivers shocks, even if the sometimes over-zealous editing distracts from Anthony Dod Mantle’s painterly cinematography, but the biggest of them all is the jaw-dropping final scene, a clapback to the film’s beginning and an indication of how crazy Britain has become in its lonely isolation.
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