28 Days
Rating R: for showing a naked guy (while mildly revolted it did make me feel more gifted then the man in the movie), and scenes of intense beatings, and poorly done blood.
Ok I had heard alot of things about this movie from various forums (mostly pr0n pop up adds, placemats at restraunts etc). And most of them were fairly positive (also try the soup of the day its Fun-tastic). Pretty much this is a foriegn film (durn brits keep churning out movies when we have far shinier PoSes coming from Hollywood.
Speaking of which, imagine the movie Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman portraying the dumbest scientist on the face of the earth, where the hippies release ebola infected monkeys into American populace, who then proceed to find work as California Congressmen and other political offices, on a strong platform of anti - corruption, term limits, fiscal responsibility and feces flinging. Ok Im currently working on replacing the lingering data on the movie in my brain with that of a far superior movie of my own creation.
So anywho, the premise of this movie is similar in that a bunch of hippies break into monkey research at Oxford. Originally I thought monkey research would be the kind of research that is fun, like the effects of porno on midget dyslexia, or the effects of wedgies and colon cancer, that kind of thing, but I suppose it really was primate research.
If you recall the film clockwork orange, you will be able to identify the monkey lying in a bed with a bank of tv screens in front of him with electrodes on his head, and watching random acts of violence, this is apperantly how the monkeys are intially infected with what is referred to as 'the rage'. This is OK because mysteriously killing diseases are always nifty, and when based on REAL diseases/virii you have to put alot more time into researching them to make sure you treat them as they are, as opposed to how you would like them to act.
So pretty much these animals are released and pretty much infect all of Britan, and is rumored to have infected the entire world, but that is left up in the air, but the first several minutes of the film revovle around John waking up in a hospital and going through the entire its an empty city thing. But first you must see naked Jim wander around before he finds some damn clothes, after that we see the true devestation that has been wrought upon our european neighbors, after what appears to be a long and hard fought cola war, the only one left is Pepsi, while im sure the losses on both sides were severe in the cola wars, we can rest assured be the real loser who is whomever has to drink that swill.
The story continues from there as John meets up with Afro-European, and another man who should really be named meat cause you know hes so dead in the next several scenes. They take this chance of introducing new characters who were not in a coma at the time of the infestation to fill us in on how horrible it was to see friends family etc become infected, and once your infected you become a raving homicidal lunatics, yes you become a raiders fan. It also lets us know of the chicks dour attitude that if you slow down ill leave you behind attitude.
From there they join up with 2 other survivors and have the misfortune of running into some funny uh-oh soldiers and zanyness (read the bulk of the movie plot) ensues.
The good of this story is its rather grim, and still have some humor to it, its not hollywood magic make believe, churned out by a hack happyness you see so often, each cookie cut to taste.
The bad is its low budget (ok so i want it both ways), the acting overall isnt stellar, and there are gaping plot holes (a drop of blood is enough to infect Frank, but the hero (jim) is sprayed with the stuff and carries ON un affected. The appearance of a boom mike at one pt was pretty low, and lastly WTF are they showing horses for in this film? Im pretty sure the 11 year girl audience will be too busy fending off guys like me at the movie to appreciate the damn time spent showing 'graceful dumbass horses' galloping around, WTF?
MMJ says, 'We must launch these simians off the face of this planet, perhaps send them to that terrible planet of the apes... oh wait a second! That WAS EARTH!'
MSBNGJ says, 'I think the entire protecting the virtue of the two chicks yer travellin with so you can bang them at some later date doesnt quite count as chivalous does it?"
MAJ says 'Damn brits, keep makin low budget films without any titties, what the hell is going on, the beattings are good, and the use of monkeys is probably a good thing, but cmon man! At least we got to see em take a few swings at a priest."
PLOT :: 4
Acting :: 3
Blowed up (fx) 2
Ass Kicking 2
OVERALL 4
It gets a bonus pt for being an entertaining film on a budget, hell cant be evil all the time ri... ok yer right I am