28 Years Later (2025) Review: 1/5 “Why a movie should have no sequels”
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland do not know how to make a film anymore!
In the movie “28 Years Later,” Danny Boyle presents a UK under quarantine from the rage virus that shook London in 2001. 28 Years has passed, and society has returned to agrarian life, where a small island lives in relative peace, where the UK is ravaged by greenery and infected, who live on their own, and the mainland is still used for oil reserves.
The story follows Jamie, (played by Aaron Taylor Johnson) and his son, Spike, (played by Alfie Williams) as they journey to the mainland as Jamie is supposed to help Spike become a man by hunting infected. Jamie wants Spike to shoot a crawler slug infected, but he does, with trepidation, because at the end, when Jamie slaughters all of them, he feels no reason to care about the infected. They’re more like game to be hunted, because Jamie and all the elderly people remember what the infected did 28 years ago. Not Spike. He blanches at violence, as his father demands that he kill a hung infected, as his head is covered with a bag, as this was punishment for some betrayal by some unknown cult.
When a small infected child spies Spike, he’s more taken in, but they can’t return to the mainland, because they are cornered by Alphas. The action scenes is shot with iphones help cover the running and the fighting, where the Alpha sends the other infected after them, is pure Danny Boyle technical brilliance. Even when they shoot an arrow at the infected, the camera does a quick pan to show the arrow moving through the skull and popping out of the back of the head.