Dangerous calling 2008 That

Dangerous calling 2008

That hasnt escaped the notice of novelists and filmmakers whove scared the pants off readers and viewers by having all sorts of animals think Jaws or monsters such as in Alien hunting down their human prey. Most violent deaths in more civilized times were and continue to be more along the lines of human on human attacks. Thus, those employed in the business of scaring customers turned to vampires, boogeymen including masked serial killers and the old standby, zombies, to evoke the same reaction. Director Danny Boyle The Beach, Trainspotting uses a variation of the latter in 28 Days Later, a stylish but decidedly low-budget and ultimately disappointing effort. To begin with, I should point out that this isnt a sequel to the 2000 Sandra Bullock film, 28 Days. Although it may have been fun to see Miss Congeniality as a zombie or being chased by them, the film has nothing to do with her or the potent cocktail of the same name. As written by Alex Garland novelist of The Beach, the effort starts off promisingly enough as a research chimp force-fed images of violence like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange goes berserk and attacks some people. 28 days later, our protagonist Cillian Murphy On the Edge, Disco Pigs wakes up in a deserted hospital in an apparently deserted or decimated London and Great Britain. Its akin to Eduardo Noriega and Tom Cruise doing something similar in Open Your Eyes and Vanilla Sky respectively, but this dream turns out to be a true nightmare. After discovering that the majority of the leftover humans are infected with some sort of virus thats driving them mad and has them in permanent attack mode, our dangerous calling 2008 hero and a few other survivors try to avoid the rabid, zombie-like creatures and make their way to a sanctuary of sorts that may or may not exist. Notwithstanding the introductory chimp angle, this would seem to be a standard, run and hide zombie flick although the walking dead are really just the walking infected. There are various problems, though, that prevent the effort from being as good as a dangerous calling 2008 film can be as it might have been. Lets start with the lack of details and explanations. Being left in the dark is a good introductory gambit, at least for a while, in getting the viewer into the proper frame of mind. Even so, things should eventually be explained to some degree to introduce credibility and avoid repetition-based staleness from setting in. Beyond that introductory scene and a comment about the chimp being infected with rage, we know next to nothing about the presumed virus or what has happened to most everyone in Great Britain. Did most of them flee or is there some sort of zombie convention in another city that everyones attending? And why do the infected like all zombies seem to have it out for those unlike them? Are they jealous or are the zombie union recruitment rules that stringent? Then theres the question of how this virus works and why it can infect someone in a mere twenty seconds. By introducing that short infection range, Boyle and company pretty much throw out a major suspense element that they had in hand. While the sudden transformation adds another sense of urgency to the proceedings, it eliminates the suspenseful question of who might become the next zombie as well as when that will occur. Without having the survivors going into proactive mode of trying to figure out their attackers modus operandi and/or a way to defeat them, the filmmakers also reduce their ability to get the viewer engaged as fully as possible in the characters quest for survival. What were left with is a run of the mill, run from the zombie flick that weve seen countless times before from the likes of Night of the Living Dead up through Resident Evil. It doesnt help matters that Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle Julien Donkey-Boy, Its All About Love have shot the film on an apparently low-end digital camera or messed around with a good one to make the results look bad. I suppose that was to give the effort an additional raw feel, but it only ends up making the picture look cheap. To make matters worse, their method of inducing thrills dangerous calling 2008 chills when the zombies attack is by apparently increasing the shutter speed, zipping the camera to and fro and using lots of quick edits.