“28 Years Later”: What do the first criticisms about Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s movie say

Danny Boyle, Alex Garland and the producer Andrew Macdonald They launched last night in London 28 Years Laterthe last film of its zombies franchise.

In the film, written by Garland, almost three decades have passed since the anger virus escaped from a biological weapons laboratory. And now, even in a quarantine ruthlessly imposed, some have found a way to survive among the infected. One of these survivors lives on a small island connected to the continent for a single road strongly defended. When a group member leaves the island in a mission towards the dark heart of the continent, discovers secrets, wonders and horrors who have mutated not only those infected, but also other survivors.

The film stars Jodie Eat, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell. The trilogy has generated a lot of expectation. At the end of last year, Sony reported that an advance of the film, in its first week of premiere, became the most watched horror trailer in 2024, with 60.2 million visualizations worldwide and the second most watched of all time, only surpassed by IT: Chapter two (96 million visualizations).

What do critics say about 28 years later

Damon Wise, from Deadline, said the movie is “From afar the most political of the three” and offers a “particularly scathing” comment about “the Britain of Brexit and its small island’s mentality.”

“Alex Garland’s script masterfully evokes how life in Britain has deteriorated,” Wise wrote. “Filling with popular horror, it presents the islanders as little better than those infected, which invites comparisons with The Wicker Man, while having fun in the community center while a discolored portrait of their Majesty the queen observes them from above.”

The Australian film magazine Filmink said that 28 years later has “uniformly excellent” actionswith “Taylor-Johnson and eat doing an excellent job, and Ralph Fiennes absolutely wonderful as the poetic and obsessed with the death of Doctor Ian Kelson.”

“However, it is the young Alfie Williams who steals the show, giving us a sympathetic young man and full of nuances to support and wait for him to survive,” the magazine concluded.

Empire magazine described the film as A “pure horror experience” full of “ferocity and bubbling adrenaline”.

“The first half of the film, in particular, is phenomenal: an electrifying terror exercise, amplified by the amazing soundtrack of Young Fathers,” the magazine wrote.

In a review entitled “28 years later is a total madness”Vulture said the film “continues the tradition of using genre as a Trojan horse to explore the feeling of current life.”

But the medium indicates that some “horror fans will feel disappointed with a movie that is too strange, too gloomy, too unresolved to offer promised emotions.”

Richard Lawson, by Vanity Fair, wrote that he felt “confused by the unexpected tone of the film, but also captivated by her.”

“Knowing that another series has already been filmed helps a lot to soften the sudden and ambiguous impact of the end of the film”Lawson wrote.

Time magazine also focused on the end of the film.

“There are many scary and wonderful things in 28 years later, but the end is discordant and silly, in the heavy metal style, and breaks the atmosphere,” Stephanie Zacharek wrote for the magazine.

It is as if Boyle had backed up when he thought about finishing the movie with a tone too solemn. But this end, regardless of how you feel about it, is actually only the beginning. Boyle and Garland have two more films in progress. The next, already filmed, is directed by Nia Dacostaby Candyman and The Marvels; Boyle will return to the third.

28 Years Later arrives at theaters today June 19.