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28 Days Later
(Reviewed June 19, 2003)
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Stylish after-the-plague suspense movie by "Trainspotting" director Danny Boyle (who also directed the egregious "A Life Less Ordinary" and the disappointing "The Beach," but we'll ignore those). A comatose bicycle messenger awakens to a deserted London that turns out to be not quite deserted after all, with a handful of survivors dodging flesh-hungry zombie-types.
The movie sags quite a bit in the middle, and there are a couple of cliche plot devices that feel very out of place. (One example: Upon approaching a tunnel that quite obviously would not be a smart place to travel in a city full of the Savage Undead, a car's otherwise entirely sensible driver blithely ignores the obvious suggestion to "take the long way around").
Still, this is a pretty decent little "B" movie...so it gets a "B" grade!
Back Row Grade: B
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