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‘28 Years Later’ Review: Danny Boyle Revives — and Radically Evolves — His Hit Horror Saga in Time to Confront the Next Apocalypse
A 12-year-old boy questions the inherited assumptions his community holds about the infected in a thrilling new entry in the hit horror franchise.
Apart from its first and last scenes, which introduce a charismatic lad named Jimmy (played by “Sinners” villain Jack O’Connell) who learns to defend himself after seeing his local priest and parents killed, the film focuses on a small collective that has taken refuge on Holy Island, just off the coast of Northern England. Here, the radical stylist (responsible for “Trainspotting” and “Trance”) updates his technology to cutting-edge iPhones, which maintains a similarly unsettling home-video edge without compromising the clarity or the aspect ratio — a dramatic, ultra-panoramic frame that’s nearly three times as wide as it is tall. In the wild, he spotted a far-off bonfire, where a rogue doctor, Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), is said to be burning corpses by the hundreds — someone it’s hard not to imagine as the iodine-smeared Col. Kurtz in this heart of darkness, until such time as his own secrets come to light.
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