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If one year of COVID quarantine made us weird, imagine 28 plus rage zombies. ‘Days’ reinvented the genre. ‘Weeks’ did nothing. ‘Years’ is Danny Boyle & Alex Garland getting freaky with the franchise. The ending will divide audiences, but it tees up a sequel set for Jan 2026, and a 3rd if these 2 make money.

I give it a 7. The ending is a jarring tonal shift, but I’m open to seeing where it leads. If the sequel isn’t great, it might retroactively lower this one’s score. I’d give ‘Days’ an 8.5 and ‘Weeks’ a 4 — to compare. I rewatched both recently and enjoyed ‘Weeks’ much more than I remembered. I think it suffered from high expectations coming out of ‘Days’, but, going into it with low expectations and a fuzzy memory, it was fine; its opening scene is, perhaps, the franchise peak, despite the rest of the movie falling far short of that standard.

28 YEARS LATER tldr review:
Did the screenwriter die mid-movie?
Verdict: 5/10

On a longer note, 

The first 1/2 of the film:
had me at the edge of my seat
10/10 tension
10/10 cinematography 
10/10 story

The second 1/2 of the film, 
1/10 tension
10/10 cinematography 
2/10 story 

WTAF was that godawful ending??

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This will be a popular opinion -- and it's not wrong. The first half of the movie is more-or-less what you'd expect, and it's good, and it's satisfying. Then it shifts and becomes something else, which will add a whole new layer for some audiences, and annoy others. Personally, I liked the shift; that's when it became a real film in my mind, and not just a solid zombie movie sequel. But then there's an even starker shift at the very end that I'm taking a "wait-and-see" approach to. I'm also a little worried that Danny Boyle isn't directing the next sequel (because he was busy wrapping this one), so it could really feel out-of-place. This is what happened from '28 Days' to '28 Weeks Later' -- a different director and a very different vibe.