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May. 18th, 2007 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cwfilmbuff24. 28 Weeks Later
Damn, one movie off from this one being #28 on the list (actually four movies off, now that I fixed an earlier typo that was throwing off my count). Of course, I could have just skipped it and been just as happy. I was skeptical about a sequel to the groundbreaking 28 Days Later, especially with Danny Boyle’s lack of involvement (he’s credited as executive producer, a position that indicates he approved the idea of a movie set in the world he created and wasn’t involved after that). Then I heard good things from people whose tastes in movies usually paralleled mine, so I thought I’d give it a shot. And my skepticism turned out to be right.
To its credit, it isn’t a carbon copy of the original, and there are some very interesting ideas brought up in the first act. Unfortunately as soon as the first infected shows up all those ideas are shot down and the rest of the movie is a carbon copy of just about every other zombie movie out there. There’s a vague attempt to make us care about a kid who may be immune and therefore hold the key to a cure, but it’s only there to make us care if he lives or dies - nothing interesting is done with the idea. Essentially the movie took everything good about 28 Days Later and burned it away, leaving a cheap thriller that lacks characterization and substitutes shaky cameras for actual action.
To its credit, it isn’t a carbon copy of the original, and there are some very interesting ideas brought up in the first act. Unfortunately as soon as the first infected shows up all those ideas are shot down and the rest of the movie is a carbon copy of just about every other zombie movie out there. There’s a vague attempt to make us care about a kid who may be immune and therefore hold the key to a cure, but it’s only there to make us care if he lives or dies - nothing interesting is done with the idea. Essentially the movie took everything good about 28 Days Later and burned it away, leaving a cheap thriller that lacks characterization and substitutes shaky cameras for actual action.
