An american haunting Waking

An american haunting

Waking from a coma in a deserted London hospital 28 days later, bicycle courier Jim MORE Animal rights activists free a group of infected chimpanzees to horrifying results in this speculative sci-fi horror effort from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle. Waking from a coma in a deserted London hospital 28 days later, bicycle courier Jim Cillian Murphy takes to the deserted city streets in a state of mystified confusion. Joining forces with another group of survivors following a terrifying encounter in a seemingly abandoned church, Jim soon learns the truth behind the deserted streets and the menacing creatures that lurk in the shadows. Its soon revealed that the chimpanzees had been harboring a deadly virus that sends its victims into a furious, murderous rage, and in the days following the initial exposure, the entire population was nearly wiped out due to the resulting homicidal rampage. Is there still a glimmer of hope for humanity or has the deadly rage virus found its way to foreign shores and infected the entire planet? Jason Buchanan, Rovi LESS 28 Days 2002 Mark Is Infected When an attack leaves Mark Noah Huntley infected, Selena Naomie Harris has no choice. 28 Days 2002 Hello The trio of survivors an american haunting the attention of a passing jet. 28 Days 2002 Changing a Tire The group manages to change their tire just as an infected horde arrives. 28 Days 2002 Vacant London Jim Cillian Murphy wanders the city, baffled by its emptiness. 28 Days 2002 Trial by Fire Bomb When an american haunting chased by crazed zombies, Jim Cillian Murphy is rescued by fire-bombing commandos. 28 Days 2002 Infected With Rage Ignoring warnings, a group of animal-rights activists releases a diseased monkey from its cage. 28 Days 2002 Longer Than a Heartbeat Jim Cillian Murphy rescues Selena Naomie Harris from a soldier. 28 Days 2002 You Killed All My Boys West Christopher Eccleston shoots Jim Cillian Murphy, but soon meets his end at the hands of a rabid soldier. 28 Days 2002 Blood From a Bird Frank Brendan Gleeson is infected by a single drop of blood; the military eliminates him before Jim Cillian Murphy can. Portions of Content Provided by All Movie Guide, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. 2010 All Media Guide, LLC. Copyright 2006-2011 Online Video Guide. OVGuide. OV Guide. All Rights Reserved. A fter a string of films of geometrically declining quality, Danny Boyle strips down his urge to bloat with the decidedly low-fi, digital video, creatures-of-the-id zombie flick 28 Days Later. Apocalyptic in a way that reminds of Geoff Murphys The Quiet Earth and legendary British novelist John Wyndhams The Day of the Triffids end-of-days ethic, the picture resolves ultimately as something of a forced morality play and a cautionary fable about mans inhumanity to man. Its opening image of a chimp strapped to a table and forced to watch archival footage of riots and lynchings is paralleled with our first glimpse of a human hero, strapped naked to an operating table, marking the picture as affecting, if not terribly high on subtlety. Still, the rise of a new, animal culture to supplant the old guard a staple of the genre since Wyndham, George Romero, and Richard Matheson manages to hold interest, particularly in times where there arises again a paranoid separation between western leadership and its proletariat. Jim Cillian Murphy wakes from a coma to find England deserted save Mark Noah Huntley and Selena Naomie Harris, survivors all of a viral plague that causes folks to devolve into a state of perpetual homicidal rage. Discovering Frank Brendan Gleeson and daughter Hannah Megan Burns as they trek across the wasteland, they find themselves in exile with a pocket of military survivors lead by pragmatic Major West Christopher Eccleston, holed away in an old mansion in the English countryside. Like a bad nature reel, the culprit of the piece doesnt reveal itself to be the predators, but mankind in all its supercilious aggression. Murphy makes for a well-fleshed protagonist; his evolution from innocence to experience including the loss of parents, the acceptance of responsibility, and the reunification of the family unit provides the structure for a film that feels at times like a series of coming-of-age vignettes, including a sexual awakening for young Harris by way of the time-honored tunnel metaphor. The always-reliable Gleeson represents the death of traditional family structure, and Ecclestons military chief the same for social structure, while Murphy and Harris represent the hope for reason post-infection. In this way, with its embrace of a fable of reconstruction, 28 Days Later is a more optimistic look at rage and its fallout than Ang Lees less honest Hulk. The early scenes, with Jim wandering the debris-littered streets in scavenged hospital scrubs, lend freshness at last to overused shots of Parliament on the Thames the sort of poignant reinvention that the picture finds again in the joyous looting of an abandoned supermarket, but that it cant maintain. After springing a particularly nasty Bosch-ian tableau in a looted church, 28 Days Later demonstrates an anarchic energy that marks its first half as a fever dream that its second half feels compelled to justify.