28 Days Later (2002)

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Danny Boyle has got his edge back.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

It makes for a more intimate brand of horror, one we can't explain away by pretending we're watching the same old well-oiled Hollywood malarkey.

August 7, 2004 Full Review

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

In the old days, a feverish programmer like 28 Days Later would end up on the bottom half of a double bill.

July 1, 2003 Full Review

Rex Reed

New York Observer

Top Critic

... really creepy and really scary ...

June 30, 2003 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

I enjoyed watching this film, mostly because Murphy and Harris make such an appealing central couple to build a new world around. But nobody should mistake this for a killer-zombie movie with real soul.

June 28, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

Top Critic

Detestable, not just because its action is so vile or its technique so crude, but because its moral imagination is so impoverished.

June 27, 2003 Full Review | Comments (9)

Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

Top Critic

A thrilling, gory affair, 28 Days Later is a well directed, believably acted yarn and well worth a watch, particularly for Romero fans.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Daniel Saney

Digital Spy

a wild cocktail of campy, gory fun

September 6, 2010 Full Review

Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

Viral apocalypse, zombies, and terror. For adults.

August 26, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

A very frustrating watch as 28 Days Later... could have been a great film and the first half is just that. It is a shame about the rest.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

This "Dawn of the Dead" inspired chiller is strong on concept, style and brutally violent action, but suffers from poor musical scoring, and a digital video format that helped keep its budget at 10 million dollars.

May 26, 2009 Full Review | Comments (11)

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Entertaining, horrifying and is sure to be a classic. Bravo Mr. Boyle, bravo...

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

A zombie thriller spiked with horror, 28 Days Later begins with plenty of promise and shocks, but gets swallowed up by an overdose of bloody violence.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comments (4)

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

It degenerates into an incongruous morality tale with an action movie climax that abandons all that came before it.

December 27, 2007 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

The film itself seems to exist in a state of perpetual imbalance... between life and death, the real and the surreal, civilization and chaos.

October 1, 2007 Full Review

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

It's a gory, depressing affair that bears an ultra-Darwinian message in its blood-stained hands.

September 26, 2007 Full Review | Comments (13)

Philip French

Observer [UK]

Paying homage to the horror movies of the past while creating a modern-day drama steeped in realism, Boyle has created something truly unique.

August 4, 2007 Full Review

Edward Douglas

ComingSoon.net

Every bit as much a reactionary, establishmentarian work as the horror movies of fifty years ago.

July 23, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Un film fort intéressant, mais malheureusement incomplet.

November 4, 2006 Full Review

Jean-François Vandeuren

Panorama

A brilliant and fresh horror film that is both scary and ingenious.

July 5, 2005 Full Review

Jason Zingale

Bullz-Eye.com

It's Boyle's fleer at the Information Age, where physical survival's place in the pyramid is smallest -- a snicker at those to whom a gagging error-message online is tragedy.

May 13, 2005 Full Review

James Lap

Apollo Guide

• 1. Jim: And then I wake up today in hospital. I wake up and I'm... I'm hallucinating or I'm...
  2. Mark: What's your name?
  3. Jim: Jim.
  4. Mark: I'm Mark. This is Selena. Ok, Jim. I've got some bad news.
  – Submitted by Paula W (8 months ago)
• 1. Jim: Please..
  2. Corporal Mitchell: Believe me, I'm not interested.
  – Submitted by Paula W (8 months ago)
• 1. Mark: A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, 'Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there.' And the man says, 'No, it's not a lion. It's a giraffe.'
  2. Jim: [doesn't respond]
  3. Mark: Completely humorless.
  – Submitted by Paula W (8 months ago)
• 1. Selena: It started as rioting. But right from the beginning you knew this was different. Because it was happening in small villages, market towns. And then it wasn't on the TV any more. It was in the street outside. It was coming in through your windows. It was a virus. An infection. You didn't need a doctor to tell you that. It was the blood. It was something in the blood. By the time they tried to evacuate the cities it was already too late. Army blockades were overrun. And that's when the exodus started. Before the TV and radio stopped broadcasting there were reports of infection in Paris and New York. We didn't hear anything more after that.
  – Submitted by macky s (12 months ago)
• 1. Selena: Hannah, it's OK. He's not infected.
  2. Hannah: But I thought he was biting you.
  3. Jim: Kissing. I was kissing her. Are you stoned?
  4. Selena: It's a long story.
  – Submitted by Rocky F (15 months ago)
• 1. Maj. Henry West: This is what I've seen in the four weeks since infection. People killing people. Which is much what I saw in the four weeks before infection, and the four weeks before that, and before that, and as far back as I care to remember. People killing people. Which to my mind, puts us in a state of normality right now.
  – Submitted by Ruan B (16 months ago)

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