Reviewed by: Becca

Directed by: Danny Boyle

Produced by: Andrew MacDonald

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns, Christopher Eccleston, & Brendan Gleeson

Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller and Art/Foreign 1 hr. 48 min. A virus that locks those infected into a permanent state of killing rage, is accidentally released from a British research facility. Carried by animals and humans, the virus is impossible to contain, and spreads across the entire planet. Twenty-eight days later, a small group of survivors are trapped in London, caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. As they attempt to salvage a future from the apocalypse, they find that their most deadly enemy is not the virus, but other survivors.

Sigh, yet again another movie this year that had such great potential and ended in great disappointment. They try to make so much happen in so little time that it was almost to unbelievable. First of all, I thought all the characters were a little to tough for only being part of this for a month. You don't get THAT tough as quickly as they did, especially doing what they did as a living. That was just one of my peeves, all of the characters evolved far to rapidly for a month going past, even the young girl. Also, without ruining the story, what the army men wanted was a little ridiculous for a month, once again. I mean sure they would start thinking about it after a couple years or so, but one month people don't progress that fast.

This movie had so much potential, and as I watched it I become more and more depressed. They filled empty spaces with a love story that was not needed, our main character walked around for a good five minutes doing nothing but picking up trash, heaven knows why. Everything made to much sense to the characters, when any normal human being would be terrified and trying to figure out what was going on. I can't see anyone killing a person that have known for a while and not feeling any regret about it, and that is probably what upset me the most. I hate when characters become more then what they truly are. If that makes any since at all.

Taking the movie for what they gave me, I didn't mind it so much. It did a pretty good job for what the writer didn't understand about human behavior. Also, I don't think this movie ended well. A movie like this you need a rather morbid ending, not something all flowered up. I will never watch this movie again, but it is worth seeing once, just to see how humans would not act in such situations.