Fresh
The movie's craft makes the dread of a killer virus contagious: viewers may feel they have come down with a case of secondhand SARS or sympathetic monkeypox.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
28 Days Later
The days are numbered.
2002 · 1h 53m · R
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Danny Boyle
Overview
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
Director and cast
- Danny Boyle Director
- Cillian Murphy as Jim
- Naomie Harris as Selena
- Brendan Gleeson as Frank
- Megan Burns as Hannah
- Christopher Eccleston as Major Henry West
- Noah Huntley as Mark
- Christopher Dunne as Jim's father
- Emma Hitching as Jim's mother
- Luke Mably as Private Clifton
- Stuart McQuarrie as Seargent Farrell
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Heedlessly derivative though it may be, 28 Days Later does what it sets out to do and then some -- scare us out of our wits, then get us to apply those wits to an uncommonly intelligent and provocative zombie flick.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Rotten
Later does a lot of things right, which makes its third-act missteps even more frustrating.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Rotten
The picture is twitchy and annoying, flecked with blood and half-digested ideas, and too much is left unexplained.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
Danny Boyle's purposeful direction and Mark Tildesley's imaginative and resourceful production design keep this fresh and edgy; the images of a wasted London and the details of a paramilitary organization in the countryside are both creepy and persuasive.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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