The director/producer team that created
i Trainspotting
i0 turn their dynamic cinematic imaginations to the classic science fiction scenario of the last people on Earth. Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma to find London deserted--until he runs into a mob of crazed plague victims. He gradually finds other still-human survivors (including Naomie Harris), with whom he heads off across the abandoned countryside to find the source of a radio broadcast that promises salvation.
i 28 Days Later
i0 is basically an updated version of
i The Omega Man
i0 and other post-apocalyptic visions; but while the movie may lack originality, it makes up for it in vivid details and creepy paranoid atmosphere.
i 28 Days Later
i0 's portrait of how people behave in extreme circumstances--written by novelist Alex Garland (
i The Beach
i0 )--will haunt you afterward. Also featuring Brendan Gleeson (
i The General
i0 ,
i Gangs of New York
i0 ) and Christopher Eccleston (
i Shallow Grave
i0 ,
i The Others
i0 ).
i --Bret Fetzer