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- Rule 12
- GTP_Famine
Oh deary, deary, deary me.
I was about to say that it starts off well, but it doesn't. Some chimps infected with "Rage" (seriously - the lines go "They're infected!", "With what?", "dramatic pause... Rage... dramatic pause") are released by Animal Rights Activists - one of whom gets eaten and turned into a zombie, vomiting blood everywhere.
Then things go better, after a "...28 Days Later" moment. Jim wakes up in a hospital with no-one around and a key shoved under his (locked) door. He staggers around for a while, and we get to see lots of lovely panoramic shots of London empty. This part of the film is okay really - right up to the point they meet the army guys. Then the film drops straight down the drain - two "women" (one is a 12 year old girl) and a bunch of army guys who have been "without woman" for 28 days equals... well, you can guess (it doesn't happen though, in case you're concerned, but they do literally kill each other trying).
By then I'd had enough anyway. Apparently getting zombie blood in your mouth or eyes - or an open wound - means you're infected and turned into a zombie within 20 seconds, but you can splash it all over your skin (your porous skin...) happily. No virus on Earth can cause an effect in 20 seconds, let alone taking over higher brain functions and making your eyes go red. Oh, and giving you the ability to projectile-vomit blood.
It's a decent premise, bungled by a shaky plot and execution and then wrapped up sharpish with a lame ending (although the alternate ending is even worse). There's a nice little subtext which they make absolute NO use of at all until the last minute of the film - that really the whole world isn't infected, just Britain, and we've been quarantined. But for that to be believable, it would mean that no-one - until the power went off - had access to non-British television channels, like CNN (which is currently on my TV, I should add).
The 20 minutes after Jim wakes up are okay. Everything else is poor. And absolutely DO NOT watch this if you need to cheer yourself up. What ever happened to TV/Films being "entertainment"?
I was about to say that it starts off well, but it doesn't. Some chimps infected with "Rage" (seriously - the lines go "They're infected!", "With what?", "dramatic pause... Rage... dramatic pause") are released by Animal Rights Activists - one of whom gets eaten and turned into a zombie, vomiting blood everywhere.
Then things go better, after a "...28 Days Later" moment. Jim wakes up in a hospital with no-one around and a key shoved under his (locked) door. He staggers around for a while, and we get to see lots of lovely panoramic shots of London empty. This part of the film is okay really - right up to the point they meet the army guys. Then the film drops straight down the drain - two "women" (one is a 12 year old girl) and a bunch of army guys who have been "without woman" for 28 days equals... well, you can guess (it doesn't happen though, in case you're concerned, but they do literally kill each other trying).
By then I'd had enough anyway. Apparently getting zombie blood in your mouth or eyes - or an open wound - means you're infected and turned into a zombie within 20 seconds, but you can splash it all over your skin (your porous skin...) happily. No virus on Earth can cause an effect in 20 seconds, let alone taking over higher brain functions and making your eyes go red. Oh, and giving you the ability to projectile-vomit blood.
It's a decent premise, bungled by a shaky plot and execution and then wrapped up sharpish with a lame ending (although the alternate ending is even worse). There's a nice little subtext which they make absolute NO use of at all until the last minute of the film - that really the whole world isn't infected, just Britain, and we've been quarantined. But for that to be believable, it would mean that no-one - until the power went off - had access to non-British television channels, like CNN (which is currently on my TV, I should add).
The 20 minutes after Jim wakes up are okay. Everything else is poor. And absolutely DO NOT watch this if you need to cheer yourself up. What ever happened to TV/Films being "entertainment"?
oh no! i'm making this a habbit lately 
anyways, the movie is just horrible. Could have been a good plot though. "Dawn of the Dead" is like the "Ten Commandments" compared to this thing. I really enjoyed "Dawn" by the way.
