A Scary, Gruesome, And Surprisingly Emotional Horror Saga

Danny Boyle “28 years later” is very close to one Best Zombie movies never done (yes, I know the ghouls on the screen are not technically Zombies, but rather “infected”, but for all purposes and purposes they are zombies). Then the end arrives. Don’t worry: I’m not going to give the spoilers in this review, but it is almost impossible to speak “28 years later” without pointing out that the countries end with a strange dark.

As the studios can’t be satisfied just to do one The film “28 years later” is the first of a whole new trilogy (the second movie, “28 years later: The Bone Temple,” is expected to be released in January 2026). Thanks to this approach, “28 years later” cannot simply end – It has to set up the next story. And it is regrettable because everyone who leads to the setting of a follow -up chart is remarkable and effective, leading to a frightening, terrible and surprisingly emotional experience. Then a completely confusing, deliciously funny coda arrives and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Are the last minutes of the movie enough to sabotage the rest? No, fortunately. But I hope they won’t be there. I wish Boyle and author Alex Garland would have thought they would leave well and let us just sit with an otherwise strong horror saga. Nor can I wonder how this end plays with audience members who do not understand this is supposed to be the first round of the trilogy; I could tell you that some screening people who clearly have not clues were completely confused.

Still, virtually everyone leads to that moment works and works very well. “28 years later,” is the third entry in the story that began in 2002, where Boyle and Garland began to make “28 days later”, the post-apocalyptic saga that the UK over the UK crosses infected rave viruses that were infected with bloodthirsty lunches. The attacks of other infected people have been infected almost immediately – their eyes turn red, they turn blood from their mouths and they immediately start attacking and kills anyone who is unlucky enough to be in the public proximity. “28 days later” was down and a dirty horrorshot from digital Anthony Dod Mantle, Cillian Murphy, hiking around a terribly abandoned London. “28 days later” followed “28 weeks later”. Boyle did not return to direct the film, and Garland only participated in rewriting.

Now the original team (including the diaper) is back and has only improved in the formula. Although “28 years later” does not have the same grain digital atmosphere as the original, Boyle and Mantle create creative, using all kinds of tricks and visual hand -catching viewers to get a guard. Boyle and journalist Jon Harris often loop the materials and materials from other films in the middle of the scene, and there are moments of violence that appeal to the “bullet time” effect, which is so reminiscent of the “matrix” where the image freezes so that the camera can spin and show us blood bursts from different angles. It is blatant and unique, and it constantly made me restless in the best possible way.

After the Julinen prologue, who does not waste time to release terrible images, “28 years later” cuts into the heart of the matter. As the title concludes, 28 years have passed since the release of the virus, and the outbreak has been in quarantine unified and cut off from the rest of the world (Garland’s manuscript later home that the outside world has mainly moved as if with zombie herds).

One island community has learned to live in harmony, cut off the mainland. It helps to access the island only through Causeway, which disappears when the tide enters. 12-year-old Spike (newcomer Alfie Williams, who is gorgeous here, turning to a confident, realistic performance), who lives on the island with coarse and grape father Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his suffering with his mother Ice (Jodie Comer).

The community tends to go to the mainland for a hunting trip. However, they do not play a game – they hunt for infection. Spike and Jamie decide out, springs and arrows in hand, and the journey is not exactly as planned. During the first hour of this movie, Boyle is expertly building an almost unbearable excitement that you care about bloody violence. Infected people have developed overtime, and they have become wild, nude beasts, who are flocking, are guided by Hulking leaders known as Alpha. They also seem to be smarter than previous movies.

During the hunting trip, Spike learns from a mysterious, possibly crazy doctor (eventually Ralph Fiennes played perfectly), who lives in loneliness, and the boy gets his head that this medical man can heal what his mother is in trouble. From now on, the second journey begins as Spike and Isla focus on finding a doctor, which is risking life and limb in the process. Everyone said: “28 years later” is a surprisingly simple case: there is no larger system here, except for Spike’s hope he can save his mother.

This sets an emotional arc from weapons that you don’t really see in such movies. Comer, which is currently one of the best actors, is not allowed to do enough here, but there is a tenderness between the mother and the son that takes the movie far away. Don’t be surprised if “28 years later” makes you cry. This blend of unharmed and real, honest feelings is as unlike what I’m used to in the Zombie movie, and it raises “28 years later” to heights I didn’t expect at all. That’s why the last moments are So damn frustrating.

Again: No spoilers, I swear. I just say that the tone of these last moments is completely contradictory with all the previous ones, to the point that it feels like we have stumbled into a completely different movie. Maybe it’s a matter because the upcoming sequel “28 years later: The Bone Temple” there is a completely different film with a different director (“Candyman” Reboot by filmmaker Nia Daco is to help it). Intentional or not, this scene is shameful to the point that I hope the Boyle is stuck later as a post -study scene instead of disturbing it to the main movie.

The rest is a massive disappointment, but it cannot undo everything that came before that. Boyle and his teams have conjured up a mix of overloading of the senses, mixed media and often braiding soundtrack with feverish effect. “28 years later” is both scary and Touch, and is not easy to achieve. It is impressive, effective and memorable. But somebody should have told Boyle Nix that finals.

/Movie rating: 8/10

“28 years later” will open in theaters on June 20, 2025.