28 Years Later (2025)

[Lyle Romer]

It's not often that I regret going to see a movie, but this was just BAD. I thought 28 Days Later was brilliant, 28 Weeks Later was slightly flawed but still good. It is hard to believe that this movie came from the same creative minds as 28 Days Later. The whole thing was stylistically bizarre, like doing weirdness for weirdness sake. The plot was dumb. It was slow moving. Ralph Fiennes should sue Danny Boyle for revealing his performance to the public. There was also a bizarre obsession with showing "infected" running around with their prosthetic junk flopping around (prosthetic due to not being able to film nudity with the 14 year old actor on set).

My wife (who loved 28 Days Later) said that she was thinking about asking if we could leave early (something that we've only done once in our lives although I can't remember the title). I wish she would have because I would have said "yes!"

I'll give it 1 star because the movie had images and a soundtrack

[Marcel Birgelen]

Just like Lyle, I was pretty impressed with 28 Days Later, even though that movie also looked rough, but it was fitting, it was also different than most other zombie movies at the time. 28 Weeks Later, written and directed by another team hit differently, but still wasn't a bad movie.

I'd say I'll give this one 1.5 stars, because I think, part of the concept, like the village that spent 28 years in isolation from the world and "the infected" might have been an interesting and still somewhat believable plot setup. Unfortunately, it went downhill from there, way, way downhill.

I've already ranted about how the film looked in the Mission Impossible topic. This movie was filmed on iPhones, using experimental rigs and the BlackMagic camera software to capture it. The result is awful.

Apparently, this is just the first movie in a new trilogy. The ending was supposed to introduce the next story, I've been told... It's unclear who's going to direct that, I've heard both Nia DaCosta and Taika Waititi. To me, both names sound like an unmitigated disaster in the making.

I've watched this movie with two other people in the room on a Saturday evening, the largest screen of the complex. To me, it looks like this is going to be a commercial failure. Maybe that's why Taika Waititi is now associated with yet another Judge Dredd reboot and Nia DaCosta is apparently going to make the sequel to this sequel. I was somewhat excited when I read that the original crew was going to finish the "28 Days Later Trilogy", I think I'm going to stay at home for the two that will follow.