My eyes had teeth and I devoured every ounce of this movie. I sat there like one of the infected, eyes yellow, soaking up the images. It was sweet. I know it's not a zombie flick, if it were I'd have hated it. I hate zombies that run. The running "infected" in 28 Days Later are magnificent. The way the movie is shot, the style, the soundtrack and the brain-blistering violence. These things made the movie special.

I've always loved movies where the main characters are isolated, I've also always loved movies about the end of the world. Here, like in Romero's zombie flicks I'm given both and I predictably enjoyed every minute of it.

There are lots of similarities between this flick and Romero's, at one point they even do a shopping scene parody of Dawn of the Dead, but these aren't a coincidence or a ripoff, they're a homage.

What's really easy to appreciate is the mastery with which this film is made. The use of soundtrack and score to set and emphasize the mood is really impressive, and as the violence and the music hits a crescendo it's difficult not to find yourself fidgeting as you get caught up in the action.

The violence was some of the best I've seen, and this film is very violent. It's not comic-bookish violence or slasher flick gore, it's new. It jumps out at you, tearing and smashing while the camera cuts back and forth so fast you're disoriented. No matter how prepared for it you are, it comes on so fast and furious that you're startled. By the time you get your bearings it's over and the place is covered in blood and meat.

I'll watch this movie over and over, this is my type of flick.

10 out of 10

28 Days Later is one of the few movies that actually gets better every time I see it. Upon my first viewing, I had to deal with the cloud of hype surrounding the film. It was advertised as being "as scary as hell!" Nothing that happened in this movie scared me in the least bit. But that doesn't stop it from being a darn good movie!

What IS scary is the very idea of a virus that can spread so quickly and have such a devastating effect on civilization. In this day and age, with threats of terrorism and bio-weaponry, it doesn't seem that far-fetched.

This is also one of the few horror movies where I actually CARED about the characters. Cillian Murphy does a great job playing Jim, the guy who wakes up in the middle of all this chaos and has to come to grips with the fact that the world as he knew it no longer exists. I also loved Brendan Gleeson as Frank, the ever-optimistic father figure of the group. This movie also features, in my opinion, one of the more moving scenes I've ever whitnessed in a horror movie; what do you say to the person you love most in the world if you suddenly had only 30 seconds to live? It's not like I haven't seen scenes like this before. It was just the short time frame and unexpectedness of it that made it so gripping.

My only complaints about this movie are that 1) there should have been more 'infected' running around, or at least been featured more prominently throughout the movie. There were several scenes that were cut, featuring more infected that I thought should have stayed in the film. 2) I liked the 2nd ending (the original ending which was cut) much more that the theatrical ending. It was the bleaker and more meaningful of the two. It also allows the development of some of the characters to come full-circle. 3) The film tries too hard to make its social commentary known when it is blurted out in the last third of the film. I think the first part of the opening scene does a good enough job of getting the moral across without it having to be spelled out to the audience.

28 Days Later is one of my favorite zombie movies. That's right, I said zombie movies. Not in the sense that the 'infected' are the living dead, but in the sense that they are creatures who were once human that have been deprived of all rational thought and emotion and are now driven by pure instinct. All in all, it's a pretty clever re-invention of the genre, and a film that definitely deserves more than one viewing.

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I finally got around to watching this movie and I must say that I was impressed. Danny Boyle put a great twist on the zombie genre. While I prefer shambling zombies, those infected with "Rage" did a good job as an apocalyptic threat.

The acting was really believable and done very, very well. The filmmakers asked "what if..." and answered it with such a dose of reality that it really hits home. Both the isolation and the paranoia were portrayed perfectly. Cillian Murphy truly shines, as does the rest of the cast.

I can't call the infected zombies, because they were still humans. One of them also talked. As far as I'm concerned, talking zombies are ONLY reserved for the original Return of the Living Dead. At any rate, they also were incredibly believable and very scary.

As I've said before, I'm a proponent of shambling zombies, but The Infected are a more realistic way to portray the zombie apocalypse. The good news about this is that they die the same way we do, so that kind of evens the playing field a bit.

There was ample blood and gore and it was all done fantastically. The infected were all really scary too. I like to think that I'd survive the Zombie Apocalypse, but this scenario makes me doubt a little.

Ultimately a very solid flick and realistically scary. It's recommended for any zombie fan or any horror lover in general.

9 out of 10 rage-filled monkeys.