28 Years Later - 2025 - I have more thoughts
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In 2002, during the initial outbreak of the Rage Virus,[a] a young boy named Jimmy Crystal flees his house in the Scottish Highlands as his family are attacked by the infected. He takes refuge in the local church with his father, a minister, but finds him praying in ecstasy, since he interprets the virus as a harbinger of the end times and the Day of Judgement. Jimmy's father bequeaths him a cross necklace and helps him to safety before submitting to the infected as they break in.
WTF.... I'm not unhappy i watched this film, but I am confused about what i just watched.
The decision to intermix period films, dream sequences, reality, and delusions throughout the entire runtime was a STRONG editorial choice. It got to the point where I didn't really trust anything I was watching.
I get the impression this is the VIBE screen writing version of world war z (the book).
Overall, I would consider this a art house experimental film kung foo hustle meets kill bill set in a pseudo medieval setting. I would recommend watching it, just for the slow motion train wreck.
As far as a zombie or survivor film goes it doesn't have much to say, spends lots of time not saying it, and just kinda fills time.
The biggest weakness is they tried to do too many things at a very shallow depth, they would have been much better off picking one theme and exploring it to make a film worth watching.
:::spoiler things that didn't make sense
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the zero-to-eleven urgency to take the mother to see a doctor based on ONE signal fire
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The villagers avoiding the doctor because he was burning the infected (which seems pretty damn sensible)
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The fucking swedish boat survivors not doing any type of suppression or bounding, they had the firepower and training, they could have setup a kill box and overlapping fields of fire and survived the first encounter. The scene was so fucking random and out of place I got whiplash
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zombie baby birth... why? What did it add to the story? What did they do with it? It's like checkovs gun dry fired.
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Jimmy.... this was some weird wish fulfillment, the absolute lunacy of it... it felt like they were setting up a comic book film at the very end. Which I could dig...
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In 2002, during the initial outbreak of the Rage Virus,[a] a young boy named Jimmy Crystal flees his house in the Scottish Highlands as his family are attacked by the infected. He takes refuge in the local church with his father, a minister, but finds him praying in ecstasy, since he interprets the virus as a harbinger of the end times and the Day of Judgement. Jimmy's father bequeaths him a cross necklace and helps him to safety before submitting to the infected as they break in.
WTF.... I'm not unhappy i watched this film, but I am confused about what i just watched.
The decision to intermix period films, dream sequences, reality, and delusions throughout the entire runtime was a STRONG editorial choice. It got to the point where I didn't really trust anything I was watching.
I get the impression this is the VIBE screen writing version of world war z (the book).
Overall, I would consider this a art house experimental film kung foo hustle meets kill bill set in a pseudo medieval setting. I would recommend watching it, just for the slow motion train wreck.
As far as a zombie or survivor film goes it doesn't have much to say, spends lots of time not saying it, and just kinda fills time.
The biggest weakness is they tried to do too many things at a very shallow depth, they would have been much better off picking one theme and exploring it to make a film worth watching.
:::spoiler things that didn't make sense
-
the zero-to-eleven urgency to take the mother to see a doctor based on ONE signal fire
-
The villagers avoiding the doctor because he was burning the infected (which seems pretty damn sensible)
-
The fucking swedish boat survivors not doing any type of suppression or bounding, they had the firepower and training, they could have setup a kill box and overlapping fields of fire and survived the first encounter. The scene was so fucking random and out of place I got whiplash
-
zombie baby birth... why? What did it add to the story? What did they do with it? It's like checkovs gun dry fired.
-
Jimmy.... this was some weird wish fulfillment, the absolute lunacy of it... it felt like they were setting up a comic book film at the very end. Which I could dig...
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:::spoiler spiritual-magic-metaphysics
Quite a few scenes in the movie rely on the spiritual / super natural / magic
- the alpha sending other zombies out without communication
- the alpha controlling flocks of crows to spy on spike
- the farm house collapses because of a dream....
I don't like this because its lazy writing, but mostly because it cheapens everything that has come before. If birds are controlled by the infected, well... good by quarantine, europe should be overrun just by birds.
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