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His performance is definitely spot on in places but not at all charismatic, therefore we are unable to identify with him throughout the movie and especially during the gruesome climax. I have mixed feelings about Cillian Murphy, the relative Irish newcomer who takes the lead. Brendan Gleeson steals the film with his performance as the warm-hearted father but unfortunately he gets all too little screen time. On the other hand, there are some nicely dependable supporting performances, including Naomie Harris as the self-sufficient ex-chemist now turned survivalist, who has brutal ways of dealing with the infected. Young child actors are always unwise decisions in adult-orientated films such as this and Burns doesn't quite gel in her role as the unlucky youth. The acting ranges from the solid to the less than impressive, the latter in the case of Megan Burns as the young Hannah. One of the problems that this film has is that its extremely bleak and heavy going (at least until the tacked-on ending) and thus may well be off-putting to many viewers who can't stand the too-realistic narrative, which has no time for Hollywood sentimentality. But things get worse before they get better, with a climax involving gouged eyes and even worse things happening. For once the camera doesn't cut away and we're left feeling pretty queasy about it all.

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Boyle gives us some very dark and graphic violence in such attacks, full of sickening spraying blood and chopped limbs shown in quick disturbing flashes. The survivors may still be alive but any thought processes are dead and they still attack as ferociously as any of Romero's creations. I say zombie because this film is, by all accounts, a straightforward zombie film. Shooting on digital video gives the film an added edge of gritty realism especially during the in-your-face zombie attacks. Although we all know that Boyle achieved his aim by filming early and closing off areas of the city, it works perfectly and nicely sets up the following events which take place in darker, cheaper sets and locations. The opening sequence, in which Cillian Murphy's sole survivor aimlessly wanders through an evacuated London, is especially noteworthy and one of the eeriest moments in a film I've seen in a long time. Although working on a noticeable low budget (the scene with the car driving past those superimposed air turbines is laughable), Boyle creates an authentic and gritty post-apocalyptic vision which follows through with the shocks in many places that Hollywood wouldn't dare. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 7 / 10 Boyle's best by farĭespite the clichés, this is a fairly effective and gripping thriller from TRAINSPOTTING's Danny Boyle, an edgy film with enough ambiance and shocks to make it worthwhile. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage.