‘28 Years Later’ Review: Danny Boyle Pushes The Rage Virus Franchise Forward With Visceral, Awkward, Tonally Inconsistent Results
Eighteen years after the release of the second franchise installment, “28 Weeks Later,” Academy Award-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland (“Civil War”) belatedly return to their zombie-ish rage virus pandemic horror thriller, “28 Years Later,” and it is decidedly with mixed results.
Attempting to push the genre and franchise forward, Boyle and Garland use heart, humor, horror, thrills, and a couple of evolutions to the infected, some of which don’t work, some of which disrupt the suspension of disbelief by exaggerating things headlong a little too far into the preposterous.
