28 Years Later review: Danny Boyle’s long-awaited zombie sequel is a triumph

28 years later

Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland

In the cinemas of June 20

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We can polish the story of 28 years later In some paragraphs. It is the third late episode of a series that started in 2002, with 28 days later. A neurotoxic virus cultivated in the laboratory has spread uncontrollable and orgiac rage through continental Europe, creating an army of infected (zombies, really, although they are not deliberately called such). The infection is finally quarantined in continental Britain. International fleets guarantee that no one leaves the island.

Adolescent Boy Spike (Alfie Williams, a new relativecomer and certainly a face to follow) lives in the relative security of a small northern island, linked to the continent by a roadway which is only passable to low tide. At 12 (rather young for the task, but his father believes that he is ready), Spike leaves for the continent to be bloody. In the middle of the forests without track (but perhaps not enough without track after 28 years; otherwise the film pute-In-SCeborn is superb and scary) Spike kills a very slow zombie, lacks a faster and generally gives a good report of himself.

But he is sick with Spike, once he is at home, to be applauded as a hero by all these drunk villagers, even if his mother (Jodie Comer) is in bed with a mysterious illness and his father Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) seeks to distraction with another woman. Thus, Spike sneaks his mother off the island and leaves with her in search of the only doctor whom he has ever heard of – a painted recluse who spends his days in corpses burning wood.

The torsion – and let’s face it, you are agog for torsion – is that there is no twist. Having established the rules of this world in 28 days laterThe writer Alex Garland simply and wonderfully stuck to his arms. There are frills: a number of zombies disappearing have survived the initial viral epidemic to reproduce and become an almost viable competing species. Some of them now become very important, thanks to the steroid type effects of the original infection. But these are not new attractions as much as patches and fixes, and they are very delivered in the spirit of manufacturing and grenaille and guardian who drags on the small village of Spike of Spike.

Nothing is quite as it seems – when is it never? – And, from time to time, maliciously prohibited to Laurence Olivier Henry V with a Great War of War and 28 weeks later Images of zombie epidemic to involve a deeper and darker meaning for the Homespun Defense League in the village and its expeditions to shoot down. There are folk horror heads Apocalypse now And Aliens 3 has Predator. But it is not a delicate film, and its intention is clear: in this world so long imbued with horror, there will be this human story, on loss and disillusionment, on growth and growth, on the moment of standing with others, and when to be alone, all transmitted by the credible words and the reasonable actions of largely inexceptional human goods.

The budget is modest (somewhere between 60 and $ 75 million). The cast is meticulous (see how Christopher Fulford plays Spike’s grandfather with an effortless conviviality that implies everything that implies a heartbreaking story). And don’t get me wrong: 28 years later is full of invention, responsible for reminders that complained with fans and filmmaker’s hood lamp. But never once, it cheats. There is not a single fatal macguffin draws us through. No stupid quest. No magic Grail. No great unmasking. Only the feeling that spread the eyes of Alfie Williams to the learning of Spike, line by line and scene by scene, what he must acquire and what he must let go, if he should become a man in this world.

All credit at Dayswhose rapid and furious infected shocked us and delighted us all in 2002; All credit also until 2007 Weeksan ingenious suite and such a good expansion on its original Alien was at Stranger. But Years Carries the crown, at least for the moment (there is another episode to come).

Boyle and Garland returned to the territory they have marked out (sorry, but this East The last paragraph) more than two decades ago.