28 Days Later (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #19 extract: 28 Days Later (2002)

Despite Boyle's highly inventive direction, this is an incredibly ugly movie. And, unfortunately, the digital camera work doesn't provide the aesthetic grit and realism that everyone involved were probably going for. Instead of making things feel more visceral and real, the cinematography in this movie is actually detrimental to verisimilitude; everything feels incredibly contrived. So, it goes without saying, but this movie hasn't, stylistically speaking, aged very well at all. 

Whilst I really appreciate the spin that 28 Days Later presents on the zombie movie, the writing, acting and general design of this movie leave a really bad taste in my mouth. This is because it just feels like terrible, low-end, early 00s British T.V - something that I'm too familiar with and really despise. 

All in all, this is just a movie that has never worked for me.