28 years later It is never exactly “frightening”, but it is constantly uncomfortable. Director Danny Boyle, Returning to the franchise he helped create together with Writer Alex Garlandtells this last story of zombies with a kinetic and compelling film style that makes even the most trivial actions disturbing. A walk through the woods. A splash of water. The rise of the sun. You will never jump out of your place, but you will be at the limit for all the time, and we think it is much more rewarding.
Set, you guessed, 28 years after the “anger virus” He took the United Kingdom in the 2002 original, 28 years later Centers on a nice but troubled family who lives in a safe and isolated community. While the mainland is full of infect and has been quarantine from the rest of the world, this place is accessible only by a small catwalk visible for a few hours a day. Here’s how Young Spike (Alfie Williams), his mother Isla (Jodie Comer), Dad Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and the rest of the lively and happy community has remained safe for decades.
For a good third of 28 years laterYou don’t know exactly what history will be. We follow Jamie bringing Spike to the mainland for the first time as a way to introduce us to them as people and the world in general. They see slow, fatty and rapid zombies, adapt to the zombies, and even if the film uses very long to prove completely, it is constantly engaging thanks to our interest in the world and the specificity of the characters. We want to learn and see more about everything.
This is also strengthened by Boyle’s cinema, which reports so many of its jumping brand techniques, impulse music, sound and intentional B-Roll-to create a palpable discomfort that also keeps your mind. We are looking at a bond of father and son, but also thinking about this world from a multitude of different angles, all while chewing the nails with terror. It is a powerful combination.
In the end, the film finds a focus and involves Comer’s character, Isla. She is sick and Spike is desperate to find her help, which brings them to a completely new adventure. Here’s where both Comer and above all Williams can really flex their recitative muscles. Williams could only be a child but it is a dynamic presence and easily brings the film. However, once the focus has become, 28 years later move a little. Boyle’s hyper-energy style is rewarded, almost in tandem with the most educational relationship between mother and son compared to son and father. It is here that we both can see Spike and Isla in a different light, but it is quite a change that is not immediately cohesive.
Something that keeps everything coherent, however, is action and violence. You cannot have a film full of tension and terror without some payments and boys gives us many of those in the film. There are great battles, exciting chases and fast moments of intensity that approach a moment. Furthermore, every time there is a killing, whether human or zombies, it was managed with care. With each chromobile murder, the film slows down for a beat and even throws in a freezing frame on the moment of death, just in this way we understand the value of life on both sides. It is a fun and effective tool that is used everywhere and you really feel as if you were in the hands of a director with something to say.
Later, through circumstances that are a little spoilery, Ralph Fiennes joins history as the mysterious Dr. Kelson. Kelson’s story is fascinating, giving both the film and to his world a completely new perspective, and Fiennes gives life to life. Its introduction also marks another change in the film, this in an almost spiritual existentialism. It is welcome, it works, but it is added again to the slight irregularity of the film after getting used to the history of the mother-child.
This is really the only negative aspect of 28 years later. The characters are fantastic, the cinema is breathtaking, the action is intense and the story is emotional. It is so ambitious that there are only moments along the road in which those shifts leave the film slightly disconnected, almost as if I had transformed the canal into something new. Whenever it happens, however, after a few minutes of confusion, we settle down because everything else is so good.
There are also scenes and ideas in the film that I don’t think I have ever seen explored in a zombi movie before. What would they do 28 years without humans to an ecosystem? What human errors could have remained at that moment? What, if there are no human traits that zombies still carry with them? Is there a nod zombie? 28 years later It takes constantly on all cylinders, but then it also strikes you with a moment or an idea that pushes things to a completely new level, and you almost would like there to be an entire film about this.
28 years later It’s not your typical zombie movie. The zombies in this world are an unfortunate and undeniable reality and, over the course of 28 years, they have evolved, as well as surviving humans. Consequently, everything has a more rooted and recognizable feeling, which makes it much more electrifying. Boyle and Garland therefore allow us to explore this world and its characters in a way that keeps us interested, we guess and entertained at the same time. While the ending is not as strong as the rest of the film, fortunately, this is the first film of a proposed trilogy, the second of which is outside in January. We can’t wait to go back. There is still this way, enough to chew.
28 years later Opens on June 20th.
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