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Wandering London, shouting (unwisely) for anyone else, he eventually encounters Selena ( Naomie Harris) and Mark ( Noah Huntley), who have avoided infection and explain the situation. Jim is the everyman, a bicycle messenger whose nearly fatal traffic accident probably saves his life. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results.

Good-hearted Jim would probably have died if he hadn't met her. Selena becomes the dominant member of the group, the toughest and least sentimental, enforcing a hard-boiled survivalist line. I think the movie's answer to this objection is that the "rage virus" did not evolve in the usual way, but was created through genetic manipulation in the Cambridge laboratory where the story begins.Not that we are thinking much about evolution during the movie's engrossing central passages. 10" in our minds at one crucial moment (b) it eliminates the standard story device where a character can keep his infection secret and (c) it requires the quick elimination of characters we like, dramatizing the merciless nature of the plague.Darwinians will observe that a virus that acts within 20 seconds will not be an efficient survivor the host population will soon be dead-and along with it, the virus. The first 6 minutes of 28 DAYS LATER onlineThat 20-second limit serves three valuable story purposes: (a) It has us counting "12. 28 DAYS LATER due out on October 21st.

Another question: Since they run in packs, why don't they attack one another? That one, the movie doesn't have an answer for.The Manchester roadblock, which is indeed maintained by an uninfected Army unit, sets up the third act, which doesn't live up to the promise of the first two. This involves an extremely improbable sequence in which the taxi seems abler to climb over gridlocked cars in a tunnel, and another scene in which a wave of countless rats flees from zombies.Those surviving zombies raise the question: How long can you live once you have the virus? Since London seems empty at the beginning, presumably the zombies we see were survivors until fairly recently. Should they trust the broadcast and travel to what is described as a safe zone? The broadcast reminded me of that forlorn radio signal from the Northern Hemisphere that was picked up in post-A-bomb Australia in "On the Beach." After some discussion, the group decides to take the risk, and they use Frank's taxi to drive to Manchester. They're barricaded in a high-rise apartment, and use their hand-cranked radio to pick up a radio broadcast from an Army unit near Manchester.

"28 Days Later" is a tough, smart, ingenious movie that leads its characters into situations where everything depends on their (and our) understanding of human nature. My imagination is just diabolical enough that when that jet fighter appears toward the end, I wish it had appeared, circled back-and opened fire.But then I'm never satisfied. I can understand why Boyle avoided having everyone dead at the end, but I wish he'd had the nerve that John Sayles showed in " Limbo" with his open ending. So you won't care as much." The conclusion is pretty standard. "To kill myself?" Hannah asks.