STAR RATINGS EXPLAINED

Classic

Excellent

Good

Fair

Tragic

FILM DETAILS

Certificate 18

Cast Christopher Eccleston Brendon Gleeson Cillian Murphy Naomie Harris

Directors Danny Boyle

Screenwriters Alex Garland

Running Time 113 minutes

28 Days Later (18)

Plot
Animal rights activists release a chimp infected with a virulent genetically engineered plague. Twenty-eight days later, a comatose courier wakes in a London hospital and discovers the city abandoned but for vicious bands of 'the infected'...

Verdict
The best purely British horror/science-fiction film in decades. And the first great apocalypse movie of the new millennium.


Reviewer: Kim Newman

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