Storyline
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
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Cast
Brendan Gleeson, Naomie Harris, Luke Mably, Christopher Eccleston, Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley, Christopher Dunne, Emma Hitching, Alexander Delamere, Megan Burns, Justin Hackney, Kim McGarrity, Stuart McQuarrie, Ricci Harnett, Leo Bill, Junior Laniyan, Ray Panthaki, Alex Palmer, Bindu De Stoppani, Jukka Hiltunen, David Schneider, Toby Sedgwick, Tristan Matthiae
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Reviews
88
Rolling Stone
Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland plumb the violence of the mind with slashing wit and shocking gravity. Happy nightmares.
80
Boyle's ingenuity with the camera gives this fraught journey plenty of menace and pizazz.
80
The movie is mercifully uncontaminated by the smarty-pants self-reflexiveness that has sucked the lifeblood from nearly all post-"Scream" horror pictures. Clever enough not to be too clever, Boyle and Garland play their story straight -- they just want to give you the creeps -- and, by so doing, bring the undead back to cinematic life.
78
There’s gore, all right, although the real terror lies in the tease, and the often dark, herky-jerky DV format ratchets up the tension to an almost unbearable degree.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Around about the third act, the picture does what no self-respecting virus ever would -- relents, turns confused, and lets our immune system fight back with thoughts of its own, with distracting cavils about the logic of the plot and the slightness of the themes.
