{"id":2312,"date":"2009-01-28T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T00:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2009-01-28T19:16:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T03:16:50","slug":"28-days-later-danny-boyle-2002-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2312","title":{"rendered":"28 days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002): U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by\u00a0Marcus Perfjell<\/a>. Viewed at the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\"\"28 Days Later<\/em><\/a> starts with an attack against a research laboratory for monkeys where the involved scientists have given the poor monkeys the will to kill. The experiment monkeys contain a deadly virus that spreads via bodily fluids, and in just seconds the infected victim turns in to a killing machine. The movie’ main character is Jim (Cillian Murphy) who wakes up 28 days after the outbreak of the epidemic. In one of the strongest scenes in the movie, we find Jim strolling around in central London as the streets around him are completely empty, and a minute later he gets rescued and taken care of by two survivors. The rest of the movie is a fight between man and zombies, and find other survivors. After finding a group of soldiers, everything seems to get better, but as many times before, it will show that mankind is its own worst enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

28 Days Later<\/em> is not that much better than\u00a0 Dawn of the Dead (1978), that was made over 30 years ago. It’s not particularly original either, since a lot of the things seen in 28 Days Later<\/em> are borrowed from earlier zombie movies.\u00a0 You don’t even get to see a lot of blood or intestines compared to its competitors. <\/span>In the middle of the movie it gets stuck for a while; before the final act takes place, it could have been a little less Rambo style. But on the other hand, the zombies in this movie are able to run, and there are some unpleasant surprises. Many of the shots that 28 Days Later<\/em> delivers are very beautiful, and you can easily tell that Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) has been in the business for a long time. Throughout the entire film the \u201cDutch Angle\u201d is\u00a0 used as camera angle to make the audience confused, and have no idea where the heck they are between cuts. \u00a0 Anthony Dod Mantle<\/span><\/a> (Cinematographer) (Slumdog Millionaire and Millions) is very unstable in his work in 28 Days Later<\/em>. It\u2019s also a pity that the dialogue and the story sometimes feel a bit like a clich\u00e9<\/span>. <\/span>The editing however <\/span>sets up great tension with crosscutting between zombies and survivors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately you can easily spot that the film is recorded with a DV-camera; the only thing that’s good is the quality of the colors, which makes it easier for the viewer to see detail in the darker parts of the movie.\u00a0 But the compression is not well done, and there aren’t many details caused by bad focus and resolution, unwanted lens flare and so on.<\/p>\n

The quality of the movie is not so bad that you can’t see what’s going on, but I definitely think that a film this new should deliver more than it did.<\/p>\n

The sound is certainly better than the picture; I’m not saying that it’s great, just better. You experience an active surround sound throughout the entire movie, and it always keeps you alert for what’s going to happen next. The voices are clear, which is a plus, but it’s still pretty average.<\/p>\n

Overall this movie didn\u2019t do much more than just scare me one time, some of Anthony’s shots are amazing but many aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by\u00a0Marcus Perfjell. Viewed at the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival. 28 Days Later starts with an attack against a research laboratory for monkeys where the involved scientists have given the poor monkeys the will to kill. The experiment monkeys contain a deadly virus that spreads via bodily fluids, and in just seconds the infected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}