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The following big spoilers “28 years later”.
There’s one key information that you need to know before you look “28 years later”: it’s not a perfect story. Okay, surely, the movie has its own story, but this is meant to be the first of the new movie trilogy. Another, called “28 years later: Bone Temple”, has already been shot and matched next year. But if you didn’t know it, you might look at the end of the “28 years later” and be completely confused. I am almost positive that some of the members of the press screening audience had to forget this information when I heard that many of them were moaning and expressing confusion after the great climatic moment of the film.
All in all, this is frustrating because, as I said in my reviews, “28 years later” is pretty damn fine. In fact, everything until the end works and works exceptionally well. And then director Danny Boyle and author Alex Garland Tack at a completely funny last moment meant setting up the next movie. The tone of this scene does not match any other movie, and it seems that we have accidentally started watching a completely different movie.
In short, it doesn’t work, and it has certainly confused some people.
To be honest, the end of “28 years later” is not entirely on the left. The finale seeds (and what is coming next) have been planted in the very disturbing prologue of the film. This moment jumps back in the first movie we saw in the beginning of the rage virus. We see the children of the group somewhere on the “Teletubbies” TV on the house.
Suddenly, chaos bursts as infected people exploded. Children’s parents are sent quickly, as are children. But one of them, a boy named Jimmy, escapes. He runs to a nearby church where he meets his father, a priest. Instead of fearing the infected, this man of God sees the event as a holy, divine moment. He gives a cross to the young Jimmy and then lets the infected herd of the infected Ghouls to attack him. Jimmy watches horror as his father becomes a monster. It’s a scary stuff! And then the movie jumps on … 28 years later.
After this presentation, “28 years later” zeros with completely different characters. The emphasis is on Spike (Alfie Williams), a 12-year-old who lives on a remote island with his father Jamien (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his mother Icela (Jodie Comer). The United Kingdom is effectively quarantined from the rest of the world, the sticks of the herds of infected people (and their infected), and Spike and his family live in peace, isolated from the mainland and the infected ghouls.
Throughout the movie, we get a reminder of Jimmy through some of the graffiti scratched on the wall and his name carved into the chest of infected (confusingly, Cillian Murphy’s character in the first movie “28 days later” is also called Jim, but they are obviously not intended for the same person). The result is that Jimmy is there, somewhere.
Isla suffers from a mysterious illness, and Spike decides to take him through a dangerous continent to find a doctor (Ralph Fiennes) to help him heal. Along the way, Spike and Isla save a baby born by the infected woman (baby looks infected). In the end, they find a doctor who, unfortunately, tells them that Isla has cancer and he will die soon – and he does calmly.
After Isla’s death, Spike drops the baby back into his community, but decides to head to the mainland alone and explore. Boyle and wreath should have ended the movie here. Instead, there is a really funny scene where Spike is rescued from a herd of infected Goofball gangs clearly colored pieces (the colors of their clothing reflect the colors of Teletubb). This group makes a bunch of backflippers and Parkour moves and kills an infected group and then a gang leader (I called “sinis” vampire Jack O’Connell) introduces himself to Spike: his name is Jimmy! You know like a kid at the beginning of the movie! Roller -roller.
O’Connell clearly has fun in his short scene but his character feels so Strange – and his strange costume that appears to be a direct reference to the infamous English TV personality Jimmy Savvile grabs a sore thumb. Does this make sense in the next movie? Likely. But here it feels completely places and hurts an otherwise strong movie. It is another example of modern movies that do not understand that they can tell one The perfect story without setting up the entire franchise program. I am interested in seeing where the story goes here (it looks clear that even though Jimmy and his gangs helped Spike, he is likely Bad news), but “28 years later” did not have to stop this.