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28 Years Later (2025)

★★ — 28 Years Later (2025)

Danny Boyle returns to the franchise he launched with 28 Days Later (2002), a film made on digital video for under £5 million that became one of the defining British horror films of its era. The follow-up, 28 Weeks Later (2007), was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, with Boyle stepping back to a producer role, so this third instalment marks his first return to the series after more than two decades away. In the intervening years Boyle took in everything from Slumdog Millionaire to Yesterday, making his reengagement with the infected-Britain mythology something of a deliberate late-career revisit. Produced through DNA Films (the same banner behind the original) and distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film carries a $60 million budget, a considerable step up from the lo-fi origins of the series.

Jimmy Saville Power Rangers... dumbest ending of a film I've ever seen. What a fucking let down. I'm not gonna sugarcoat this. There are so many things that make absolutely no sense about this film. Firstly... 28 days later. All the infected starve. Britain is considered CLEAR OF INFECTION. Which leads to... 28 weeks later. A few hundred resettlers and most of them are killed when the infection comes back. The ending has infected running towards the Eiffel Tower. Then.... "Mainland Europe pushes back the infected" Don't fucking "somehow Palpatine returned" us. That's just retconning the entire ending of 28 weeks. Also... if the infected starve after 28 days then how the fuck are there still infected alive 28 years later? Because there's no explanation to why there's so many still? The movie starts off great. A flashback intro. I liked the God of War style father and son scavenging trip too. But... What are they even scavenging for? It's been 28 years... and the maximum you can go is 2 hours away and 2 hours back because the tide changes every 4 hours? Then... Spike learns that a random fire he sees is a lone doctor apparently. Someone who's been alone completely for 28 years. Oh that's just someone who's single handedly kept himself fed, alive and sheltered through 28 winters all while gathering up hundreds of corpses to build a minecraft players wet dream. A bunch of towering skeletal monuments... But why didn't anyone make an attempt to bring back a fucking DOCTOR?? "He's insane and we were too scared" Ok... Then... Pregnant infected. I can actually buy that. Coz these infected are basically primal beings at this point. They'd potentially have sex. But the weird "I'll forget I'm filled with rage for a second so we have our mother to mother bonding bullshit" made no sense. And then I thought "well maybe that's why the infected are still here because they're breeding" but I've had kids. They need extensive round the clock nurturing and feeding to survive, so that can't be it. Turns out... the babies are born free of infection anyway. Explanation? Placenta mate. So then we randomly get this Swedish guy Erick turn up (who I actually quite liked) but his entire story was basically "ever heard of the Internet? Ever heard of phones? Ever heard of botox?" Take Erick out and the story remains entirely untouched. Then... an "Alpha" rips Erick's head off and the lone doctor shoots a dart at the Alpha and sedated it with morphine. It's OK though because the doctor is covered in Iodene and the infection doesn't like Iodene. Ok so.... - How is your morphine still effective after 28 years? - Where is this unlimited supply? - Why didn't you slit the Alpha's throat? - What the fuck do you mean... iodene? Surely someone else would have realised that too and then we just douse everyone in Iodene. Oh... but let's not forget the Iodene doesn't actually save you from the Alpha who rips a hole in your little den because after 28 years he suddenly NOW finds a weak spot? Also... the Dad... why doesn't he go looking for Spike and Isla? He knows exactly where they're going... he'd be faster. More experienced. He never left to find them? So Spike drops off the miraculously uninfected baby and then decides I'll just travel solo across Britain. When one quiver of arrows barely lasts you a single trip anyway. And who saves him? Raiders of the Lost Primark. A group of morons with long blonde Jimmy Saville style hair, ridiculously "Crouching Tiger" level stupid acrobatics and technicolored matching tracksuits. Absolutely fucking ridiculous. There are far too many plot holes, retcons of the original stories, nonsense and absolutely tonedeaf ending. I'm thoroughly let down.

Rating: ★★ | Year: 2025 | Watched: 2025-06-21

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