Overrated would probably describe this indie hit most accurately.

Cillian Murphy plays a London dwelling bike courier who wakes up from a coma twenty-eight days after a virus called "rage" has turned most of the population into infected, zombie-like creatures (though don't get your hopes up - this ISN'T a zombie movie) and after wandering around in the eeriely deserted streets he soon finds himself hooked-up with some fellow survivors and fighting off the "infected" who are attacking to feed.

Eventually they find themselves travelling across country following a radio transmission to a military blockage and things get even more hairy once they've been taken in by a group of soldiers (who have ulterior motives).

This movie will give the seasoned horror film viewer mixed feelings for sure. On the one hand director Danny Boyle is certainly confident with his direction, does manage to build some great spooky mood early on and gives the attack scenes a flashy, kinetic style; but it's the scripting by novelist Alex Garland (who wrote The Beach, which was adapted by Boyle in 2000 starring Leonard DiCaprio) that drags this one down.

Firstly there's not nearly enough done with the premise and the story tends to go awry once the whole "military" angle is introduced (since the soldiers turn out to be just horny guys looking for females) plus add in the fact that there's lots and lots of logic lapses and unanswered questions (why didn't they think of using a car earlier? Why don't the infected attack each other? Etc.) and you have this disappointing time.

Also manages to annoy because the whole movie has this "grim" feeling to it and they've tacked on a happy ending!! (they should've stuck with the false ending that's on hand).

Directed By: Danny Boyle.
Written By: Alex Garland.

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns.

Picture Ratio: 1.85:1 Widescreen.

Picture Quality: This is a stable transfer but it does get a little bit fuzzy from time to time but that's probably because it was shot using digital video.

Extras: Fox has delivered an above average special edition for fans of this film. There's trailers, a music video by Jacknife Lee, A cool animated storyboard trailer taken from the UK website, 2 photo galleries (one by an on-set photographer the other mostly continuity polaroids) with commentary, 6 deleted scenes with optional commentary, a making of featurette that manages to cram in lots of "infectious disease" facts, 3 alternate endings with optional commentary (including the one that will apparently "haunt you for days" they added on during the theatrical run - it's not that great) and finally a decent commentary track by director Boyle and writer Garland.