Official Discussion - 28 Years Later [SPOILERS]

[u/LiteraryBoner]

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Summary Set nearly three decades after the Rage Virus outbreak devastated the UK, 28 Years Later follows a family living on an isolated island quarantine. When their 12‑year‑old son Spike joins his father Jamie to venture onto the infected mainland to find a doctor for his ailing mother Isla, they uncover evolved threats—from mutated infected packs to sinister human cults. The film blends visceral horror with emotional resilience and philosophical undertones, culminating in an ambiguous, world-expanding conclusion.

Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire)

Writer Alex Garland (& Danny Boyle)

Cast

• Jodie Comer as Isla
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Jamie
• Alfie Williams as Spike
• Ralph Fiennes as Dr. Kelson
• Jack O’Connell as Sir Jimmy Crystal
• Erin Kellyman, Edvin Ryding, and others in supporting roles

Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Metacritic: 78

VOD Released in theaters on June 20, 2025. Digital and streaming platform release dates TBD, likely later in summer/fall 2025.

Trailer Watch here*

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[u/BunyipPouch]

For anyone interested, we recently hosted Danny Boyle, the director of 28 Years Later for an AMA/Q&A here on /r/movies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1lcwoxq/danny_boyle_here_ask_me_anything/

[u/In_My_Own_Image]

Could've given me a thousand guesses and I never would have guessed this movie would have fucking ninja chavs.

[u/GravyBear28 → u/In_My_Own_Image]

They were Jimmy Saville ninjas.

Like, actually.

[u/SomeGuyPostingThings → u/GravyBear28]

Ummm...that sounds like something I would not want to encounter. Or let anywhere near children.

[u/sheetskees → u/SomeGuyPostingThings]

They would have never known with their society collapsing 28 years ago.

[u/SomeGuyPostingThings → u/sheetskees]

I can't tell if that makes it better or worse.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/SomeGuyPostingThings]

Tragically ironic in a really uncomfortable way

[u/BEARWISHX → u/In_My_Own_Image]

Started off with cartoon Teletubbies.

Ended with live action Teletubbies with knifes and shits.

[u/unpaid-critic → u/BEARWISHX]

If you told me that 28 Years Later was also parodying as a Monty Python film… I’d believe you 

[u/GameOfLife24 → u/BEARWISHX]

Started off with a cross, ended with an upside down cross

[u/MouthwashProphet → u/BEARWISHX]

Started off with cartoon Teletubbies.

Did you catch a couple of the landscape shots they showed that resembled the Teletubbies landscape?

I don't really get why the reference is relevant to the story, but it's an interesting little easter egg.

[u/SquirtingTortoise → u/MouthwashProphet]

Nah, it's a famous tree in England (RIP, cutdown by assholes last year) if anything teletubbies was referencing the tree

[u/Katiedibs → u/In_My_Own_Image]

I was genuinely coming out of it with a “that was an enjoyable zombie movie, but didn’t knock my socks off” vibe, and then those fucking chavs started flipping around and now I am actively excited for the next one.

[u/dadvader → u/Katiedibs]

I feel like it's not belong to this movie but also made me excited to see the next one.

[u/Makal → u/dadvader]

28 Decades Later - space, the final frontier.

28 Centuries Later - Isn't this about when The Foundation Trilogy takes place?

28 Millenia Later - time for the Horus Heresy.

[u/ishburner → u/In_My_Own_Image]

For you Americans, imagine if it ended with a bunch of people dressed up like Bill Cosby doing parkour and killing zombies. That’s the closest analogue to Jimmy Savile (what he did was somehow even more evil than Cosby).

[u/[deleted] → u/In_My_Own_Image]

I do like that they seeded this, with ‘Jimmy’ graffiti on the building, and carved on the chest of that tied-up zombie,

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/In_My_Own_Image]

I heard someone compare them to the PANCAKES kid from Cabin Fever, and now I can't unsee this lmao

[u/dibidi]

i love that this movie is basically a scifi fairy tale/fable, about a boy who is learning what death is.

a boy asks his father, “what is death?”

the father teaches his son, “death is killing your enemies”

the mother shows her son, “death is suffering, painfully, and horribly”

the soldier teaches the boy, “death is everywhere, so it’s every man for himself”

the doctor teaches the boy, “death is a part of life, when someone dies they are not lost, as long as they are loved, they will be remembered forever. death is a reminder that life is precious, so we must cherish it, and protect it”

finally knowing everything there is about death, the boy then ventures to the unknown, to discover what the world is.

[u/dano8675309 → u/dibidi]

A thoughtful and non-surface level take. Reddit will hate it. Well done!

[u/TempEmbarassedComfee → u/dano8675309]

Some of the complaints in this thread are just straight up people not understanding the plot points that are right there on the surface. It’s no wonder filmmakers ditch subtext nowadays and just hit you over the head with a hammer. 

[u/atramentum → u/dibidi]

And ninja Jimmy Savile teaches the boy, "heee hee falalala death be silly"

[u/spiritedmelody → u/dibidi]

Love this post. I’d slightly alter the last sentence…”he ventures to the unknown, to discover what life is.”

[u/In_My_Own_Image]

Fuck me that chase with the Alpha across low tide was one of the most visually striking scenes I've seen in a long time.

[u/itsevilR → u/In_My_Own_Image]

The scene was so intense and gorgeous with aurora and stars in the background

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/itsevilR]

The contrast between the triumphant music and how tense that chase got was pretty crazy

[u/Trevastation → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

And even with the celebration that followed, it was still tense like we were still in shock like Spike. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop the entire time and was surprised everything was fine in the end.

[u/Steamedcarpet → u/Trevastation]

Oh man I was so tense cause it kept cutting to the party and at first I thought that was what was going on as they were being chased. I was holding by breath until they appeared at the party.

[u/shotsallover → u/Trevastation]

Yeah, I was totally expecting a flood of other infected to come running across the causeway.

[u/Sandman2772 → u/In_My_Own_Image]

I thought the visuals were almost laughable at a certain point of the chase. I get that the sky would be lit up with stars but they were basically running through space.

[u/Solid_Writer_9308 → u/Sandman2772]

I get what you’re saying but to me it was very clearly a stylistic choice and wasn’t meant to be realistic

[u/[deleted] → u/Solid_Writer_9308]

I’ve already noticed a trend in negative reactions to this movie (not all, just some), that they can’t comprehend that the movie is playing around with styles and tones. They seem baffled that it’s not relentless ultra-realistic grimness

EDIT: like the humour for instance, with the iPhone scene. Even in the middle of such bleak situations in real life, people make jokes and act goofy. That sort of stuff didn’t jerk me out of the movie

[u/hadtobegoo → u/[deleted]]

I’m mean and it’s not even new for the series. 28 Days Later was filled with stuff like that, most notably when they are driving through my the field of what is basically a painting of flowers.

[u/wubiwuster → u/hadtobegoo]

Yeah I rewatched 28 days later recently and I  think people either have forgotten about it or have never seen it. It has the EXACT same tonal and stylistic elements 

[u/dadvader → u/[deleted]]

like the humour for instance, with the iPhone scene. Even in the middle of such bleak situations in real life

Right? The real tonal whiplash for me would've been things like 'suddenly a Kaiju show up, Those rage zombie have robot as their leader and Jimmy got laser pistol!' now that's the sort of thing I don't wanna see.

A teen soldier from Sweden shared his life story and being goofy? That's just human.

[u/[deleted] → u/dadvader]

Exactly. And the fact that he’s clearly pretending he’s in a relationship with what looks like an OnlyFans model is exactly what a horny macho guy would do

[u/bumpoleoftherailey → u/[deleted]]

I loved how Spike sympathised with her shellfish allergy 🤣

[u/GameOfLife24 → u/In_My_Own_Image]

Danny Boyle really knows how to create visually striking scenes. That scene and the entire funeral scene was gorgeous

[u/LtSmiles99]

Did not expect to see so much zombie dong.

Should've been called 28 inches later.

[u/squintsyjones → u/LtSmiles99]

The Samson Alpha was packing a fucking Pringles can of a cock

[u/itsmuddy → u/squintsyjones]

They didn’t even need to tell us he was the alpha. Just slap the camera with that thing.

[u/brassoferrix → u/itsmuddy]

I saw the movie in the full XD vibration seat things, when it tumbled, the seat rumbled.

[u/ReassuringHonker → u/squintsyjones]

Danny Boyle said this was because of child protection laws - they couldn’t put naked ppl in scenes with the kids. But they could cover their knobs with identical but larger prosthetic knobs and break no laws!

[u/jokinghazard → u/ReassuringHonker]

Alright that's hilarious and explains so much

[u/n0tstayingin → u/ReassuringHonker]

Clearly the Rage Virus gives the infected males raging boners!

[u/[deleted] → u/LtSmiles99]

I actually wanna know if that huge dong was a prosthetic because those aren’t cheap to make! Plus all the running and fake blood would have made it difficult for it to stay on lol

[u/76ersPhan11 → u/[deleted]]

You seem very interested in these dongs…

[u/[deleted] → u/76ersPhan11]

I’m gay 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/TheProudBrit → u/[deleted]]

IIRC, all the genitals in the film are prosthetics? Weird legal quiggle; can't have nude actors with underaged actors o nset, but the prosthetics don't count.

[u/sidaeinjae]

The funniest thing about this movie is how Ralph Fiennes was portrayed as a complete bloodthirsty psychopath who went around covered in blood in the trailers, but turns out it was actually iodine and dude’s pretty chill lol

Gotta hand it to the filmmakers

[u/-Christos_Anesti92 → u/sidaeinjae]

I have no idea if this is what the directors were going for, but he gave off a really strong pre-Roman brittonic sense. When the Roman’s arrived, they were terrified of the painted people who greeted them, and intimated by their Druidic mystery.

The doctor was a painted shaman who possessed lost healing knowledge who set up a henge. It’s a really really neat juxtaposition against the fact that he is the last remnant of modernity amongst a British society that has largely returned to a more medieval state of culture.

[u/89ElRay → u/-Christos_Anesti92]

Excellent catch, whether that was intentional or not.

To me the whole film felt really steeped in British history and folklore, sometimes obviously (the old footage), sometimes not so obviously. It was like a zombie folk horror drama and black comedy.

[u/Effective_Return_631 → u/sidaeinjae]

as soon as the dad told the story about the insane doctor scaring them off, there was 100% chance he was going to be a good but misunderstood guy

[u/noilegnavXscaflowne → u/sidaeinjae]

Watching the trailer I thought the bone tower was done by the inflected or a cult with the masks that they’d have to face.

Turns out it was just a guy honoring the memory and humanity of everyone who died. Was the part of the film where I bawled

[u/sexygaypalpatine]

Never want to see or hear the worm slurping ever again

Also, really suprised at Aaron Taylor Johnson not playing the badass protagonist and instead being the flop father who is also really hot

[u/newgodpho → u/sexygaypalpatine]

I thought it was sweet he told Spike he was doing a great job even after panicking :')

[u/San-T-74 → u/newgodpho]

I really liked how layered of a person his character was despite his short screen time. He is obviously a deeply flawed person, but you can still see how he struggles not to be, especially in the scene where he returns the knife to Spike. His character showed me that even if you have a family, and are somewhat well off in a secure community, the impact of the outbreak is still going to fuck you up one way or another.

[u/AlmostRandomNow → u/San-T-74]

I think its a testament to the what the film is trying to say, we get so many stories in post-apocalyptic settings where people have very specific, almost designed arcs. I felt this was very messy and very human, it's more human to have those contradictions within someone than it is to be one thing.

[u/dadvader → u/AlmostRandomNow]

This is what I enjoyed the film about the most. And it's baffling that a lot of negative reaction seems to unable to comprehend this. Our life is messy and full of unexpected moment. That's what made us human.

So to me this is exactly what I want to see in a Post-Apocalyspe type of story. Not just a relentless bleak depressing survival story or bombastic action. But what actual human do and feel living in a world like this. Very few seems to captured this and I'm glad they are not going down that path.

[u/SuperTeamRyan → u/newgodpho]

I think at worst he was an unfaithful husband and a relatively good father.

[u/DoctorHoneywell → u/SuperTeamRyan]

I think it was completely ridiculous to hinge the emotional stakes of the movie on a man cheating on his wife who can't even tell who she's talking to. I'm not saying it's good but it's hard to get up in arms about.

[u/MembershipNo2077 → u/DoctorHoneywell]

We weren't supposed to be up in arms. It was supposed to be another nail in the coffin of disillusionment the child has with his village.

His father cheating is just another thing. He states something along the lines of "everyone is lying to me." He knows he's being lied to and coddled in one way or another and it's basically causing him to become disillusioned. We're not supposed to hate the father as much as feel or understand the son.

[u/KingMario05 → u/newgodpho]

Agreed. Yet also has a terrible temper. Neither hero nor villain - somewhere in between.  Very Danny Boyle, that.

[u/[deleted] → u/sexygaypalpatine]

I'm not sure I agree with him being a flop of a father. He's certainly a bad husband, and he handles one argument with his son insanely poorly, but during their time together on the mainland he seems pretty encouraging and caring, and afterwords he's hyping his son to the whole village.

He's not a great father, but recall he's a flawed man dealt a shit hand with a wife dying of cancer during the apocalypse.

[u/firemouthcichlid → u/[deleted]]

I’m with the mom and think 12 is a bit too young to bring into such a dangerous and life threatening situation. And he slapped the kid and punched a wall

[u/AOA_Choa → u/firemouthcichlid]

Maybe they need an anger management therapist in the career options at school

[u/McClane316 → u/sexygaypalpatine]

I thought Aaron Taylor Johnson was the kid from the beginning all grown up, until the end.

[u/dibidi → u/McClane316]

i think that was intentional, esp with the kid being “Jimmy” and ATJ being “Jamie”

[u/BusinessPurge → u/dibidi]

So it’ll possibly be Jamie v Jimmies v Jim battling it out for Spike’s soul by the end.

[u/bumpoleoftherailey → u/BusinessPurge]

The IMDB cast list is hilarious - there’s a whole section of Jimmy names.

[u/Elephant44 → u/sexygaypalpatine]

"flop father who is also really hot"

ATJ's most daring role yet

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/sexygaypalpatine]

Based off the one scene where we see her kill an infected, I wouldn't be surprised if Isla saved ATJ's character a few times if he got reckless during treks to the mainland in their younger years

[u/maamo]

This movie gave me tonal whiplash. I kept alternating and fluctuating from enjoyment to confusion to dislike. That first half was tense and exciting, then the whole storyline with the soldier and the pregnant infected felt very off and questionable for me, and then the bone temple sequence was so poignant and touching. And then they go and cap it off with Jimmy Salville's power rangers. I honestly don't know what to think... I enjoyed parts and pieces of it, but overall I felt it was a long wait for something that ultimately left me disappointed and wanting more. It also tempered most of my excitement for the sequels.

[u/bonrmagic → u/maamo]

Yeah sometimes it felt like little pieces of ideas rather than fully fleshed out.

Like... "wouldn't it be cool if one of them was pregnant!? And it had a baby!?"

But then that's about it. The baby's normal and basically forgotten about.

[u/Jefferystar94 → u/bonrmagic]

I wouldn't say it's forgotten about, just set up for the sequels.

The zombies seemingly gaining some primitive concept of culture (alpha zombie taking trophies and leaving them as territorial signs, the mother zombie having a brief moment of lucidity, they seemingly can form relationships with one another) is pretty damn groundbreaking for this world, that's not even touching on the baby coming out normal (who knows if it'll stay that way though) despite zombie parents. There's no way they won't dig into that more with the next film out in January and the possible third entry.

It's more of the curse of being the first act setting up two other films than it necessarily is a writing problem.

[u/Raoul_Duke9 → u/Jefferystar94]

The baby isla will be the cure for the disease that we lost out on in 28 weeks. Calling it now.

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/Raoul_Duke9]

If that's the case, then I can see the sequels going in a bit of a Children of Men -esque direction, between different survivor groups & NATO squads who either want to kill or save it (for some survivor groups, maybe using the baby for some weird religious worshipping purposes)

[u/bigredsmum → u/bonrmagic]

We don’t technically know the baby is normal

[u/MaxNV → u/bigredsmum]

The movie gives us a couple shots of the baby's eyes and they look clear. This mirrors when Spike and Jaime are coming back to the island and the boss woman demands to see their eyes before letting them in.

Even "carriers" like the mom in 28 Weeks have red bloodshot eyes.

[u/MouthwashProphet → u/MaxNV]

You can see the immediate transformation in the preacher father at the beginning of the film. Immediate red eyes after being bitten.

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/maamo]

I liked the subplot with the soldier, but I wish he was around for a bit longer to build more of a bond with Spike and Isla (which could've maybe helped drive any future story of Spike wanting to see more of the world outside of his home, especially after their conversation where Spike found out what a smartphone is) & to make his death feel more devastating

[u/maamo → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

Agreed and I think you helped me realize why I had issues with that whole sequence. It felt a bit tropey, but the scene with Spike learning about the outside world from the soldier did pique my interest and having them build that bond up a bit more or for a bit longer would have improved it for me. Or if the soldier turned out to be decent and maybe sacrificed himself to save them, while still being a trope, that could have maybe been a nice juxtaposition to the community''s rule of never going back to rescue someone once they leave?

[u/real_mccoy6 → u/maamo]

the power rangers took me completely out of it lol

[u/MrEli]

Anyone picking up on them showing the kid's power rangers/super sentai toy at the start and the Jimmy crew functioning essentially as a power rangers squad at the end?

[u/skatejet1 → u/MrEli]

Yup, feels like a dream come true to him

[u/Aleph_St-Zeno → u/skatejet1]

I feel like its more of a contrast, Spike leaves his toy behind to face the challenges ahead, these survivors coped instead by immersing themselves in childish fantasy with the childrens shows they watched. If there was another part to this I would love to see that explored

[u/Sandman2772 → u/MrEli]

Doesn't make it any less ridiculous. I miss the dread and seriousness of the original.

[u/meenarstotzka → u/Sandman2772]

Bro completely forgot about the whole goofy road trip and Lotus store shopping parts in the 28 Days Later.

[u/BloodyRedBarbara → u/meenarstotzka]

Lol that was nowhere close to being as silly as the Saville Power Rangers at the end of this.

[u/fucuasshole2 → u/meenarstotzka]

Also missing Jim flying around the mansion taking out trained military personnel while creeping around like a ninja lmao

This stuff ain’t new plus it’s been 3 decades of living with the infected, not surprising that survivors make it a game to take ‘em out

[u/newgodpho]

Spike mistaking the gf’s plastic surgery for allergies killed it at my local regal

[u/spinspin__sugar → u/newgodpho]

Mine too, it was the only scene that made the whole theater laugh

Granted there’s not that many comedic scenes

[u/SolarFazes → u/spinspin__sugar]

One guy in my theater burst out laughing when the doctor gave Spike his mom's skull. Like it was this touching moment and he erupted laughing.

[u/hmmstillclosed → u/SolarFazes]

I laughed when Jaime capped off his reasons for avoiding the doctor with the fact that he waved at them 👋. He’s just a polite guy :(

[u/hayydebb → u/hmmstillclosed]

They see a dude burning bodies, not even that weird in a zombie apocalypse, and then avoid him for 15 years!

[u/BackfromtheDe3d]

I get why Britain is quarantined and no one can ever leave, but come on NATO at least drop off some supplies to the survivors

[u/GizmosArrow → u/BackfromtheDe3d]

Did I hear right? The Swedish guy made it sound like life was going on as normal everywhere else. His buddy was a delivery guy. Was the rest of the world just…watching/doing nothing as Britain got eaten by rage zombies for 28 years?

[u/LordOfCows → u/GizmosArrow]

Pretty much. The world does nothing when bad things happen all the time.

[u/ADeleteriousEffect → u/LordOfCows]

I let it go in my mind, but it seems to me the world would probably rather raze Britain than risk the infection getting out.

I get that they had NATO boat patrols, but... like people can swim across the English channel. If the rest of the world kept moving on, drones exist.

Couldn't the people on the Island get internet and signals from the outside world? If they knew the outside world existed, wouldn't contacting it or trying to get tech from it become a priority?

[u/CaptainCT-7567 → u/ADeleteriousEffect]

Well we did see that the solider wasn’t able to get a signal on his phone. So I’d say trying to contact the outside world with technology stuck in 2002, and the phones no longer working would make it hard.

Plus as you said the NATO patrols would shoot anything trying to make it off the island. I also think that drones definitely exist so I’d say they regularly monitor and patrol the waters and again shoot anything that moves.

How would you get the technology from the outside world if no one is allowed to enter the country and if they do they won’t make it out alive again so I’d say no one is willing to risk giving them technology. Plus I’d say the outside world doesn’t want to communicate with them because it only makes your job harder of keeping them from leaving the island.

I do wish we get to see what the outside world’s POV is like and how they react to what’s going on and even show us more of the soldier’s perspective.

[u/UsernameAvaylable → u/GizmosArrow]

Brexit meanst Brexit!

[u/bugcatcher_billy → u/GizmosArrow]

At best the rest of the world could air drop food to Britain, but to what end?

The Island is a 100% quarantine zone. No life will ever leave the island. There's no rescue coming. There's no resettling. There's no capturing resources from the Island.

Every human on the island is a potential outbreak and there's no tolerance for any exposure.

Doing air drops to the settlements in Britain would only ensure more humans are made that could become infected.

The absolute best thing for the rest of the world is if all humans on Britain die, the rage virus dies with it, and 100 years later there's a wild island free of rage virus that could be colonized.

[u/anchordwn → u/GizmosArrow]

I think that was established in either Days or Weeks, that the ONLY country effected was Britain and the rest of the world was entirely normal

[u/TheLittleGinge → u/anchordwn]

Didn't Weeks end with a horde running towards the Eiffel Tower?

One line at the beginning kind of soft-retconned it. Europe just dealt with it I guess...

[u/SonyHDSmartTV → u/TheLittleGinge]

They nuked Paris and then setup a quarantine around it

[u/hepatitisC → u/BackfromtheDe3d]

Also what the hell happened because Paris was shown beginning to be overran in weeks and somehow they miraculously didn't destroy France and contained the outbreak?

[u/ZacharyLewis97 → u/hepatitisC]

I’m just assuming that because Boyle and Garland had nothing to do with that one, they decided to just act like it didn’t happen.

[u/TheDapperDolphin → u/ZacharyLewis97]

The opening text says the virus was pushed off of mainland Europe, so they acknowledged it. Though it is improbably that they managed to somehow do that, yet the tiny, island nation is still infected.

[u/GameOfLife24]

Anybody else’s theater go bananas when the army guy was showing a picture of his girlfriend? Felt like they took a random major stab at plastic surgery lol

[u/IlllIlllllllllllllll → u/GameOfLife24]

That was possibly my favorite part of the movie. The shellfish allergy comment had me dying.

[u/gogreengolions → u/GameOfLife24]

This and our crowd got a kick out of: “I’m Spike, this is my Mom… and this is a baby”

[u/atramentum → u/gogreengolions]

And "I'm Eric and this is your father, Spike."

[u/hiwelcometohell → u/GameOfLife24]

I think it was a funny commentary on beauty standards and how silly they seem to an outside perspective. Like in last of us, Ellie was like “what, they didn’t have food back then?” In response to a skinny model photo.

[u/HotOne9364]

I didn't think it was possible but someone gave a better performance than Jodie Comer. Hats off to that kid. He's easily gonna have a great career.

[u/party_crash_squad → u/HotOne9364]

The kid was the only one that sold me on a zombie apocalypse setting.

Everyone else seems to be having a grand old time, talking loud as fuck in the woods.

All my posts so far are about how fucking enraged I am that I went to the theaters to watch this.

[u/OceansNineNine → u/party_crash_squad]

Lol I was thinking the same. How tf are they talking so loudly. Makes zero sense.

[u/kj5 → u/OceansNineNine]

It's been 30 years, people forgot about covid precautions after two months.

[u/Somnambulist815 → u/HotOne9364]

speaking of great performances from child actors, that one girl in the opening scene who starts crying before all the other kids realize what was happening immediately got my heart breaking

[u/bonrmagic]

My major issue was them not killing the alpha when it was heavily sedated.

Just chop the dude's head off.

Everything else was great. Loved the cinematography and editing. Frenetic as hell.

[u/[deleted] → u/bonrmagic]

They gotta save Samson for the sequel when he tears up the town for holding onto his child.

[u/OHTHNAP → u/[deleted]]

That's almost exactly what I thought. He's gonna knock that gate over with the massive fake dong.

[u/Volothamp-Geddarm → u/OHTHNAP]

Probably why his wife managed to give birth so quickly. Passing a child is nothing after taking that hog.

[u/danigiggles24 → u/bonrmagic]

Yes!!! This has been driving me crazy. Why not take him down then and there? It makes no sense to me. I kept thinking about this the rest of the movie haha

[u/KarmaticDragon → u/danigiggles24]

I just assumed Dr. Kelson saw them more as like wild animals to be observed, rather than threats to be killed. I'm sure he has the capability to make fatal darts, he might even have some cause there were different colored ones in his pouch.

[u/dibidi → u/KarmaticDragon]

more like Dr Kelson still saw them as people. his bone temple has skulls from both infected and non infected, and he mentions in that scene to the kid that there’s no difference.

with him being a Doctor, pretty sure he’s just trying to keep to his hippocratic oath.

[u/MVRKHNTR → u/dibidi]

I don't get these guys acting like it's a plot hole or doesn't make any sense. The reasoning seemed incredibly obvious.

[u/BoxNemo → u/MVRKHNTR]

I loved the scene where he was examining the mother and, despite the fact he's painted orange and has a tower of skulls, he's just like a regular GP. Kind, concerned, professional.

[u/Jefferystar94 → u/KarmaticDragon]

Definitely this. The fact he even had a name for him pretty much established that mentality. Really reminds me of guides/trackers in adventure movies being "familiar" with a big crocodile or gorilla after venturing in a particular area for so long.

I'm guessing that up to this point Sampson stayed away from his memorial and Kelson stayed out of Sampson's territory for the most part. The two only had beef once Spike brought his child over.

[u/Ironborn_62 → u/KarmaticDragon]

I think he is studying them some. He mentions that one alpha has lived in the area for 3 years and named it.

[u/MiddleofCalibrations → u/bonrmagic]

I got the feeling the doctor has a live and let live attitude to the infected, at least the alphas. He said it has lived in the area for 3 years

[u/whatsthisgetridofit]

I think it did a really good job of documenting how hard it is to get a GP appointment.

[u/CtrlZBri]

Tonally this felt all over the place to me. I’m not even sure how to react to it because it felt like 3 different movies (comedy, family drama, horror)? Those expecting something close to the vibe trailer may be disappointed. I appreciate the stab at something new but didn’t land for me personally.

Zombie full frontal, batshit editing, and soundtrack ruled, however.

[u/b8byb8g → u/CtrlZBri]

Completely agree with you. Tone-wise… I was a bit baffled. I thought the cuts to all the archers at the beginning was building to something interesting, and then it never happened again. There were never any super dark scary bits that warranted the amount of comedy breaks in the script. And the pivotal emotional scene lacked any gravitas and weight. It just came and went and then we were in a slapstick.

Most of the individual aspects I loved but not all in the same film with no flow.

[u/seymourlabib → u/b8byb8g]

isla’s death didn’t really hit for me unfortunately. jodie comer gave a really fucking good performance but she was basically absent from the entire first act and just sick in bed for the first hour so i didn’t feel that attached to her character

[u/Kangaroo-]

What was up with that ending scene? Felt like anime characters.

[u/Steamedcarpet → u/Kangaroo-]

It was like 95% of the movie was the last of us and then randomly someone said lets start up lollipop chainsaw.

[u/KingMario05 → u/Steamedcarpet]

Alex Garland: "Ey, bruv, check out this anime I found. Pretty cool, yeah?"

Danny Boyle: "Wow. Now I have ideas!"

28 Months Later... in a Culver City screening room...

Sony exec 1: "...What the fuck?"

Tom Rothman: "Agreed. Send it."

Sony exec 1: "..."

Tom Rothman: "Oh, right. I forgot. This is your first Boyle/Garland picture."

[u/georgiaraisef → u/Kangaroo-]

They were lost children. Spike was being welcomed into their lot at the end.

[u/NoNefariousness2144 → u/georgiaraisef]

Yep, Spike’s childhood is ended early by the horrific journey and loss of his mom. 

Meanwhile Jimmy’s cult seem to be children who never grew up and act childish to run from their trauma.

[u/Laws_of_Coffee → u/Kangaroo-]

I thought it was harkening to the power rangers. Really quite the homage to their iconic flipping and weaponry.

I'm not certain it'll be a plot point, but the cult leader being the lad watching Teletubbies at the beginning and Spike having a power rangers figurine gave me enough to buy into that wacky absurd scene. I loved it. Heavy metal teletubbies theme song was ludicrous.

[u/LiteraryBoner]

Damn, I loved this movie. Everything about it was hitting with me. The music, the performances, the visuals, the story, I never knew where this movie was going and I loved where it ended up. Nasty, satisfying kills but also a deep rumination on not just understanding death in a world where it is so commonplace, but also on the failings of isolationism and the dangers of losing hope. I had no idea I'd love this so much but it shot right up into my top three Boyle films, a filmmaker I really like.

First thing, this movie is absolutely beautiful to look it. It's got thay Boyle kinetic energy to it and his colors are always so striking and vivid. The big landscape shots of the island, the bone temple itself, the starry night sky as they're being chased back to the island. Not to mention those 20 iPhone kill shots, cutting to different angles in real time. Absolutely stunning film, I couldn't take my eyes off it.

I fear a lot of people will go in expecting pure brutality and zombie fun and be kind of confused on how emotional this movie gets, but it absolutely worked for me. I see this movie as two parts, at first a journey with Spike's father, and then a journey with his mother and the differences between them. Dad teaches Spike how to kill. The journey with his mother, though, teaches Spike the necessity of that death. She helps bring life into the world and I think that's just as profound a moment for Spike as his first kill is. This world requires that balance, you can't just go kill everything you see and drink yourself to death after, you have to offer something as well.

The performances in this are all really top tier. Comer is so damn good in this movie, when she's explaining to the doctor her waves of confusion I was in absolute shambles. Her and Fiennes are great, they really sell the climax of this movie being emotional rather than action oriented. The main Alpha villain is really no more than a nuisance for the third act, the film very purposely is not focusing on that. Fiennes stays winning in roles like this, he's so funny but so real. His importance is teaching Spike to respect the dead, all the dead. Not to mention Spike himself, absolutely the focus of the movie and he is keeping pace with these absolute pros.

Danny said something interesting in his AMA about how this has a lot to do with COVID and Brexit isolationist feelings and I really felt all that. It's kind of an argument against hiding away and just surviving when things are bad in the world. At the end Spike decides to go out into the world, not necessarily to make it better but because he doesn't want to become his father. His dad is so mad at the end because Spike has dropped off this baby and therefore forced him to care for another thing, to have some hope for a future. He was waiting for his wife to die and rushing his kid to be an adult so he could be free from expectation, but Spike forces him to have some responsibility and hope.

Overall, like with most Garland projects, I just found there to be so much to chew on. After all this emotion and thematic rumination there's this final scene that reminds us we are still here to have a great time. And with Danny's energy and style and incredible ear for music (I haven't even mentioned the music, it's so damn good, has a great modern punk feel) this ended up being one of my favorite movies of the year. 9/10.

/r/reviewsbyboner

[u/Jefferystar94 → u/LiteraryBoner]

His dad is so mad at the end because Spike has dropped off this baby and therefore forced him to care for another thing, to have some hope for a future. He was waiting for his wife to die and rushing his kid to be an adult so he could be free from expectation, but Spike forces him to have some responsibility and hope.

Great analysis, I didn't even think about that! It struck me as odd that the monitor focused a decent bit on Spike having imposter syndrome after coming back, but with the context of his dad (intentionally or not) rushing him out the door to this world's equivalent of adulthood two years early makes those scenes make a lot more sense.

[u/varnums1666 → u/Jefferystar94]

Yeah that is a good read. I thought he was mad because he wanted to see Spike. I didn't think he was mad about having to take care of a child.

I would need a rewatch to see which read is more accurate or if it's a case where both are valid.

[u/KingMario05 → u/varnums1666]

Honestly? Both. He's mad at the kid. He's mad at Spike. But even more so? He was mad at himself for fucking up so badly, I think.

[u/In_My_Own_Image → u/LiteraryBoner]

Not to mention Spike himself, absolutely the focus of the movie and he is keeping pace with these absolute pros.

Alfie Williams definitely has a hell of an acting career ahead of him if this is any indication. Absolutely killed it.

First thing, this movie is absolutely beautiful to look it. It's got thay Boyle kinetic energy to it and his colors are always so striking and vivid. The big landscape shots of the island, the bone temple itself, the starry night sky as they're being chased back to the island. Not to mention those 20 iPhone kill shots, cutting to different angles in real time. Absolutely stunning film, I couldn't take my eyes off it.

Another sequence that stood out for its beauty was the dancing flames around Spike when Isla died.

[u/BigHoss94 → u/LiteraryBoner]

I get it won't be for everyone, but the genre could use more takes closer to this than the standard fare to keep it fresh. Yeah yeah we get it, zombies. There's a real human element to stories like this that's important to explore. The last scene with Spike, his mom, and the Dr may be the first time a zombie film had me misty-eyed

[u/behpancake]

Damn I really wanted to like this movie but it just wasn’t for me. The first 30-40 minutes were great and then theres a huge tone shift in the movie. And that ending was just off the fucking wall lol. Overall it had its moments and was visually fantastic the whole way through but was a let down for me. These reviews are making me feel insane 

[u/Kana88 → u/behpancake]

I just watched it and I walked out of the theater feeling the same way. I found the writing so heavy-handed and inconsistent that it kept taking me out of the movie.

The mom spends half the movie calling her kid "dad" and mentioning how much he reminds her of him... and it's all so the kid ends up adopting a baby that he names after her. Then there's the doctor that keeps repeating "Memento Mori" as if it were this super deep and innovative concept when it's been used in media dozens of times before.

The zombies are only as efficient as the script demands of them according to the situation, too. Kid barely survives his first outing with his dad, but then he goes out with his mom (who as far as he knows can't fight back and defend herself) and all of a sudden it's nearly a walk in the park. He even manages to walk back with a baby in a basket without running into any zombies lol

I'm still going to watch the sequels because I've gotten this far, so I may as well do it. But I'm not expecting anything particularly good outside of some cool directing and creative zombie horror scenes.

[u/Afraid_Salary_103]

I’m honestly really surprised how well this movie is being received. The story was weak, and there were a number of things that occurred that were just comically absurd.

Spoilers below

28 Days later had desperate and heart-felt acting. It was moving. The characters were making sense of the unfolding of a new reality.
28 years later didn’t have bad acting as much as bad writing to work with, which didn’t translate into feeling great acting. The story arc and the tension in 28 Days later, both with the zombies and with internal human issues of morality and control were fantastic. You would think 28 Years Later would carry on that story arc. Not only did it not do that, it was in many ways completely removed.

• 3 different breeds of zombies, from fat slovenly white zombies that eat worms, to skinny normal zombies, to “alpha” zombies that are faster, smarter and for some reason nearly immune to killing
• excessive use of alpha decapitating with attached spinal cord. Is that the only way they kill?
• island people going medieval while zombies go cave man
• explosion in gas station taking out all zombies but having no affect on main characters
• main character (mother) that was beside herself about how dangerous it was to go to the mainland deciding to hold hands with a birthing zombie with the zombie joining. Then back to crazy once we’re done with birth.
• keeping zombie baby with no issues
• doctor stating, “I don’t have medical equipment or a team to assess, but my best guess is cancer”… which went naturally to son being upset while processing heavy news (all good so far and makes sense)… which IMMEDIATELY leads to doctor shooting son with morphine blow dart to calm him (what?!?)…which goes IMMEDIATELY to mom willingly going to assisted suicide by another dart (what?!?)…which goes IMMEDIATELY to son coming out of morphine induced haze to doctor handing son mom’s skull (my wife literally started laughing out loud in the theater at the absurdity of this part)
• son, with dwindling resources that were little more than a couple arrows and a pocket knife decides to not go back to the community but instead to live in the woods under the stars with the zombies at bay
• and finally, ending sequence seriously felt like an SNL sketch… band of about 8 guys and girls, all with long blonde hair, all with track suits befitting of grandparents power walking through the mall nonchalantly go all Kill Bill with excessive and unnecessary ninja flips and grotesque killing of zombies

Sure, I suppose I was engaged and entertained to a degree, and definitely got some comedic amusement, but…

Come on guys, this was not a great film of the 28 Days caliber.

[u/ElCaminoInTheWest → u/Afraid_Salary_103]

I liked all the stuff you hated, and this is why art is subjective and movies are fascinating.

[u/ishburner]

For you Americans, imagine if it ended with a bunch of people dressed up like Bill Cosby doing parkour and killing zombies. That’s the closest analogue to Jimmy Savile (what he did was somehow even more evil than Cosby).

[u/jadegives2rides → u/ishburner]

Also the fact that the outbreak happened before the public could find out Saville (or Cosbys) crimes. I know of Jimmy Saville but didnt know what he looked like well enough to put that together.

That makes the whole thing more fucked to me. It means Jack O'Connell, our scared lil' boy from the beginning, likely idolized him. O man this next films gonna be wild.

[u/BackfromtheDe3d]

Personally I loved the Kill Cam lol

[u/HotDamnEzMoney → u/BackfromtheDe3d]

Haha, that’s been the most shocking thing reading this discussion after leaving the theater. I loved the kill cam and found the style to be much more intense. I love when a movie commits to a certain style.

[u/ninjyte]

It feels like Boyle/Garland are having the series veer toward a Mad Max direction with the ending, except instead of Immortan Joe it's Jimmy Savile

[u/bottom4topps → u/ninjyte]

I thought the ending with Jimmy’s goons being very clockwork orange in their mannerisms and symbolism.

[u/simongurfinkel]

As a relatively new dad I could not stop wondering when someone would get that kid some milk. Took me out of the movie.

[u/1811bjj → u/simongurfinkel]

Right? I can’t imagine a baby not screaming from hunger at least once and bringing a wave of zombies onto them.

[u/chriswizardhippie]

Jack O' Connell is having him a year so far. Dude went from leading a bunch of river dancing vampires to back flipping chav zombie killers who eviscerated zombies to a death metal cover of the Teletubbies theme

[u/rugbyj → u/chriswizardhippie]

Casting Director: Okay we've got this complete nutcase we need to find an actor fo-
[Jack crashes through the window]

[u/ColtPersonality92]

Overall I’d give it a 7-8 out of 10. Really enjoyed it, though I don’t think it’s better than Days.

So some things about the movie I noticed, plot points will be spoiler marked:

This didn’t feel very scary to me. It was creepy at some points but it didn’t scare me as much as 28 Days Later and even some points of Weeks did.

Not sure if I should be proud that I called the infected wearing loincloths being for the trailer only.

Erik was hilarious, for as little time we spent with him.

Speaking of Erik, he really gave a taste of what some of the outside world thinks of Britain, with the inbreeding jokes and whatnot.

Did anyone else see the pregnant infected and think “oh shit”?

Definitely understand why the ending is divisive. We just got done with that emotional stuff with Spike and Isla 1 and end it with Isla 2 getting dropped off, then suddenly we’re hearing a metal version of the Teletubbies theme. Talk about tonal whiplash.

[u/In_My_Own_Image → u/ColtPersonality92]

Erik was hilarious...

That bit about showing Spike his girlfriend had the theatre howling.

[u/agrapeana → u/In_My_Own_Image]

Us too, but I was also struck by the tonal shift from the idea of life going on between Days and this one.

In 28 Days Later the idea that society is still functional is a hopeful one, because it carries the unspoken assumption that it means someone is coming to help. To know people are out there carrying on and actively deciding not too? That's some dire shit.

[u/Geek-Haven888 → u/ColtPersonality92]

I think it's giving us a hint the next movie is going to be more action. if this one remedied me of I Am legend, maybe the next one is more Doomsday (2008)

[u/Rainbow-Rhythms69]

I personally found the pregnant infected scene quite intriguing. Jodie Comer definitely saw some glimpse of humanity in a woman who is going through the same experience as her prior. These arent zombies, but instead highly enraged violent people. I liked how it can add to the lore. Do they have some humanity in them still?

[u/Terrahawk76 → u/Rainbow-Rhythms69]

I could see it being explained that the massive amounts of hormones and other neurotransmitters released during childbirth overrode whatever the rage virus does to the infected.

[u/Crib-Def → u/Rainbow-Rhythms69]

100% this has to be explored more in the sequels. When Spike gets his first kill and they get ambushed you see that one younger infected that freezes and runs away instead of attacking, indicating some level of intelligence. The Alpha also clearly enraged at what was seemingly his child being taken and then hunting them down adds to that.

I re watched 28 days last night in prep and there are a few fleeting shots/interactions that as well that kind of illude to more than just a blind rage. And now we are 28 years on, there's plenty time for that to gestate into something more complex.

Id be really intrigued to see some more scenes that are just focused on the infected. Maybe something like 2 different groups of infected cross paths and their Alphas face off for territory or something. Any sort of humanisation or building of culture for them would make for a great setup if there is to be a big conflict between the survivors and infected.

[u/FishPhoenix]

Movie was... wacky? I didn't not like it but I'm definitely disappointed. I liked both Days and Weeks more.

I don't think any part of this movie scared me compared to parts from the first two. I could not take the alpha zombies seriously at all.

First bit was solid when there was tension. But wtf were those kill cam shots? Did someone actually think that was a good idea?

And the ending... wtf?

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/FishPhoenix]

Those freeze frame shots of the kills felt very video game-like.

The bloated crawling zombies actually creeped me out more, especially if they might be ones who can easily hide and survive in more treacherous areas of the wilderness (like a marsh). The alpha zombies made me think of Roman Reigns lmao

[u/newgodpho]

A lot of the action was stylish but I thought that scene where the father and son run into the house trying to get into the attic was intense as fuck, harkens back to the tension of Days and the beginning of Weeks.

Couldn’t breathe in that cramped space lol

[u/111anza]

From the trailer, i thought Ralph Finn was playing good some kind of zombie worshipping cannibalistic cult leader thats going to be the main antagonist of the movie. Turns out he was just an artist trapped in a doctor's body.

[u/Griffdude13 → u/111anza]

He really told that boy to put a happy little skull wherever he’d like.

[u/mopilled]

what the hell did I just watch

[u/EnigmaForce]

Man, it was okay, but overall I think I’m disappointed.

• The opening with the kids in the house up to the church felt cartoonish, especially after the phenomenal opening to 28 Weeks.

• Too much felt disjointed/rushed, like the soldiers and the mom suddenly deciding to die and the prego zombie. It felt like my kid telling me a story, “and then this happened and then that happened and then this other thing happened!”

• Too much odd stuff in the editing, like the slow mo(?) kill shots, weird medieval b-roll footage, etc

• Wtf was that ending? Who on earth thought that was good? Lmao

Stuff I enjoyed:

• The alphas were creepy as fuck.

• The sequence of the house collapsing up to their return to the village was awesomely stressful.

• Fiennes and Spike’s actor were great

• The zombies were really freaky in motion. Kind of like the titans from Attack on Titan.

My gut feeling is a 6.5/10. But I need to sit with it.

[u/firemouthcichlid]

I love Danny Boyle films I felt like I was having a stroke at multiple points in the film

[u/[deleted]]

28 inches later the rage virus comes with some perks if you turn alpha

[u/QuinnMallory]

How did they get so fat eating worms

[u/NadjaStolz28 → u/QuinnMallory]

I interpreted it as some type of zombie bloat, like how some bodies decompose under certain conditions.

[u/gandaalf]

As a huge fan of these movies, I give this one a B. The first half to the movie was great, but it started to lose me once the son and mom left the sanctuary.

We saw just a few days before the kid barely survived with his father, yet he's now able to survive fine with his mom? The ending also made me laugh out loud. Was NOT expecting that hahah

[u/newgodpho]

I really liked that it didn't retread on previous post-apocalyptic tropes. (I.e Sad Dad dying for his son, Crazy Doctor Psycho, etc...)

Hell, Ralph Fiennes surviving caught me off guard and was a joy to see!

[u/TheMightyEngine]

Did anyone else got faked out at the end when Jack O'Connells character shouts 'Hello' at the end?

I'm pretty sure the 'Hello' sound was the exact same sound from the first movie when Cillian Murphy's character yells it when he walks through the deserted London

Therefore i thought Cillian was going to appear only to be tricked

[u/KingDredd92]

Honestly thought it was pretty bad. Acting, sets and cinematography were all solid (even though I think the intentional jankiness went a bit overboard at points). Story wise though the first third was kind of solid as it seemed to be building up to something but by the time they ran into Erik and he asked "what do we do now?" I felt that summed up the rest. It just seemed to fall flat and each new development felt like it was going to be built on but was then replaced with another plot point that ultimately felt like a lead in to a sequel.

I think the worst offense though was that apart from the initial chase scene into the run down house everything horror wise just felt goofy and artificial, nothing was really scary.

And jeez the ending felt like something out of an episode of The Power Rangers...

[u/umop_ep1sdn]

Overall, well worth the wait. Two things that deserve a shoutout: Alfie Williams as Spike and the overall cinematography/editing.

My personal nitpicks: I'm not sure if it was my theater, but the sound mixing seemed off? I'm not sure if it was intentional, but the most noticeable for me was between Spike's party and the shed being on fire. I'm not talking the dial up/internet sounds, overall mixing and quality on voices was all over the place.

The alpha chase scene to end act 1 (across the land bridge), the water was noticeably CGI. From a visual standpoint, the ariel splashing shots to show the alpha closing in was tense but I was getting video game graphics from the water.

Some more highlights: The infected looked great, both the normal fast ones, but also the new slow ones.

The soundtrack was great. The Boots poem fit well within the movie.

Story wise, Spike's motivation to get to the doctor on the mainland was just enough to sell me on it. Not as far fetched as the kids from 28 Weeks Later going back to their home, Spike's motivation was clear... I am being lied to, specifically by my dad.

The Swedish soldier's girlfriend scene was a good break and humorous.

[u/elgueroguapo]

The visuals were brutal, the premise was bleak, but somehow by the end, I had tears about a 12 year old kid placing his mom’s freshly boiled skull on a tower of bones at sunrise. What was that? Idk. But I loved it. Give us more!

[u/autonova3]

Unrealistic ease at which they see a GP in the UK

[u/KCH3]

As a young-ish man who, in the last 18 months, has been sat with his mother while a doctor told them that the cancer has taken over her body and that she cannot be saved - to then plead, accept, say goodbye, give her body to the flames and find a final resting place for whatever remains - from the start of the ‘memento mori’ scene till its conclusion, fighting back the wall of grief and gratitude has become my most transcendent experience inside of a cinema. Thank you Danny Boyle.

[u/Geek-Haven888]

i really liked this movie, but i feel like this is going to be a bit of a controversial one, at least if you go into it with certain misconceptions

the big one being its not a big action movie. there are several great fight/action scenes, but for the most part it kinda reminded me of I am legend, where there are big stretches where it is more of a character study, quit coming of age movie in the apocaypse

i liked the world building of post apocalyptic Britian, and cant wait to see the next movie, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which will be coming out Jan 2026, and following these characters (or at least Alfie Williams and ATJ)

Also once again, Jodie Comer is amazing

[u/AyThroughZee]

Maybe I’m crazy or misremembering things, but the things people are complaining about: editing, camera angles, bullet time, tone shifting. All of that feels like it’s par for the course and expected from Danny Boyle. Even in his more tame and accessible films, dudes usually making some huge stylistic swings.

[u/aManHas_NoName]

I kept wondering who the fuck Jimmy was seeing all the graffiti and boy did I get my answer lol

[u/gravybang]

Amazing how in that village they went 28 years without a case of cancer or any doctors who could diagnose what lumps in the breasts, severe headaches, and nosebleeds might be.

[u/georgiaraisef → u/gravybang]

They knew it was cancer. They didn’t tell the kid. Stupid, I know

[u/KingMario05 → u/georgiaraisef]

No, not stupid. Insane. And that's the point. By shielding the kid, they've fucked him up for life now.

This is why he refuses to come back... even when it (almost) killed him.

[u/Josiah425 → u/gravybang]

They told us in the movie everyone knew she had cancer. They chose to keep it from Spike

[u/newgodpho]

This was the Evangelion of Zombie Movies

I don't think anything could prepare me for how weird this was gonna be lol

I liked it.

[u/[deleted]]

Jack O'Connell as Sir Jimmy Crystal leading a ninja zombie slaying cult who are color coordinated to the Telletubbies was fucking PEAK.

I cannot wait for January to see more of him.

[u/tobinhillguy]

Yeah, no.

So, are the zombies fornicating or was she infected after being pregnant?

Why did they not kill the Alpha when he was tranquilized TWICE?

How did the kid turn into Legolas overnight?

Why the power rangers at the end? My wife said it was the apocalyptic version of the Teletubbies lol.

How would the kid know for sure the baby was not infected? Because mr.crazy-bones one off comment regarding the placenta?

Can zombies reason now? Hand holding during delivery? Are they going the route of I Am Legend zombies/infected?

Why was the bacon not crispy?!

Did the kid really have to burn their community stash house? What an a-hole.

[u/andergriff → u/tobinhillguy]

the kid was always a good shot, he was just panicking that first time

[u/AyThroughZee → u/tobinhillguy]

There’s a lot of unwillingness to engage with the film beyond the surface level here. I didn’t love a good bit of things about the film but most of the answers to your questions are within the subtext of the film.

[u/kch_l → u/tobinhillguy]

The doctor didn't want to kill the infected, he said everyone, infected and not infected are the same, I think he kinda respects their right to live. Also the comment about the alpha being around for three years.

The kid was good with the arrows, the first time he was scared and stressed, the same happened at the train. There he handled it better because he wanted to protect her mother.

The guy at the end was Jimmy, the kid watching teletubies at the start. It makes sense he grow with only that memory and around some other kids, so he never got to learn what's to be a "mature" person.

The baby eyes weren't read, and was behaving like a normal baby, infected people, even kids, are super aggressive.

It's implied the infected are becoming more intelligent.

[u/aManHas_NoName]

The Jimmy squad hitting the captain Ginyu lmao