Boyle really hits his stride in the London scenes, with their burnt-out scariness and sense of civilization hitting the skids. There's also political satire: fanatic animal rights activists unthinkingly loose chaos on England by attacking the lab and freeing the mad monkeys. The first part of the movie, in London, is by far the best, starting with a dark, edgy prelude that introduces the main idea of a rage virus in a burglarized British laboratory, with exaggerated noir effects. Then, responding to a radio call from a military outpost somewhere near Manchester, the quartet break out to the country in a well-stocked black cab-which only prompts more catastrophes and a horrible revelation after they finally find the "safe haven" promised by Maj. Soon Jim hooks up with Selena ( Naomie Harris) a hard-bitten survivor so tough she chops off the head of a close friend as soon as he's infected, and the two seek shelter first with father and daughter Frank ( Brendan Gleeson) and Hannah (Megan Burns), who are holed up in a high-rise. Wandering through wrecked London, seemingly abandoned except for psycho rage-heads, he watches these violent victims killing and infecting at will. He discovers the effects of the virus-a gray London with bare, savage streets-to his puzzlement and horror, after waking up in an abandoned hospital. Boyle and Garland cleverly introduce their protagonist, quiet, long-haired Jim (Cillian Murphy), after his recovery from a coma. Instead, the madly infectious virus from which the film derives its title-stemming from artificially-induced psychoses developed in test monkeys-reduces England in 28 days to mass chaos and slaughter.
Unlike the classic post-war end-of-the-world movies, "28 Days" doesn't have a hint of nuclear apocalypse. SLASHER FILM RULES - Jason Lives: Friday the 13th.LESBIAN ROMANCE RULES - Desert Hearts (1985).
ZOMBIE FILM RULES - 28 Days Later (2002).However, all of the murders by the infected and one of the infections occurred due to the deliberate intervention of uninfected, so rather than 6 to 4, it's more like 2 to 8, with the uninfected being the real monsters. Of the ten deaths (or infections) 3 were infections ) obviously by the infected, 3 were murdered by the infected, and 4 were murdered by the uninfected. Sergeant Farrell was executed for betraying the other soldiers.
Jim murdered Private Davis, Private Jones, Corporal Mitchell. Privates Bedford and Bell were also killed by Mailer and/or Clifton because Jim released Mailer to kill them. Major West was killed by the infected, but only because Hannah trapped him in a position to be murdered by them. One of the soldiers was infected, but his fate unknown (but he was only infected because Jim freed Private Mailer to kill the soldiers). Three of the civilians survived, and the ones who died were infected (or assumed to be ) and killed by the uninfected. Man is the real monsterĀ - There were five uninfected civilian survivors and eight uninfected soldiers shown in the film.