28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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Rating: A-

"28 Years Later: The Bone Temple asserts itself as an audacious triumph that revitalizes the saga with unexpected ferocity, balancing the franchises most repulsive graphic horror with biting narrative intelligence. Elevated by magnetic performances especially by Ralph Fiennes and dazzling cinematography that transforms the grotesque into art, the movie is both a spectacle of blood and a deep thematic study on memory and survival that leaves us with the unsettling certainty that, in this new world, evolution is the only alternative to extinction."

I dont often walk out of a theater with the only thought on my mind being that was so good but here we are.

I struggle to care for the messages in most zombie flicks (I know, the rage is different than the undead), but this blossoms into something so rich and so nuanced that I was smiling from ear to ear as we dive into how humans cope with the world and how their perspectives manhandle their approach to survival.

Its fucking nuts, its a fucking treat. Thank you Nia DaCosta, thank you Ralph Fiennes, thank you Jack OConnell. HOWZAT?!

The original 28 days later is one of my favorite movies ever so I literally counted the days for painful 18 years since 28 weeks later until the new trilogy was finally announced.

The first 28 years later was a bit of disappointment for me, but the bone temple is all I waited for those many years!

The movie follows 2 core of characters where they left off the last movie. Spike now is forced to do increasingly insane things as part of Jimmy's satanic cult, while doctor Ian experiments with the Alpha zombie after he displays some reasoning capabilities like a stronger version of "Bub" from the "Day of the dead".

The characters paths eventually intersect leading to deadly consequences in this movie packed with action. Impeccable acti...

"That was some gory !@#$. Holy !@#$! Is it safe to open me eyes?"

SPOILERS AHEAD!

I was hesitant to watch this after the previous installment, but I saw Ralph Fiennes in the promo images and figured "I like Ralph Fiennes, and I liked the doctor from the previous movie, so why not?"

The best three things from "28 Years Later" take center stage in "The Bone Temple": The doctor, the "Howzats", and "Samson's" big !@#$in' d***. For a hot minute, I thougth the dad had returned, but thank !@#$, no he didn't. I don't need to ever return to dad, thanks.

There's a lot of gore. Brace yourself.

Also, there are no !@#$in' "Boots" or medieval bull!@#$ to be seen or heard! Cheers!

I'm looking forward to the next one.

P.S. Where it...

I'm not quite as taken with "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" as I was with its immediate predecessor.

The considered, intelligent, insightful aspects of this film, embodied in Ralph Fiennes's Dr Ian Kelson character, are undermined with the re-introduction of the stabby satanic fashion refugees from the closing scenes of the last film. I was critical of their rather ridiculous Clockwork Orange-at-the-end-of-the-world-style antics and remain so.

Their oftentimes moronic presence drags this film down, reducing it to an often grotesque farce on more than one occasion. The "we're all Jimmy" line is reminiscent of "we're Negan" from The Walking Dead, minus the gritty gravitas.

In summary, not a bad film but not a great one either. S...

Boring temple. Half the movie isn't the guy they talk about. He's cool. The kid is cool. The mom is cool. Why do I have to watch the rest?

Would have rather the focus been on resolving whatever situation with the guy they stole the baby from.

Could have been better and shorter.

If youve ever had conceptions about films being dumped in theaters in January because theyre not worthy of being released any other time of the year, then 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple easily shatters or redefines them. Filled with meaningful performances that catapult an already engrossing story, the 28 Days Later franchise is more promising than its ever been.

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With Spike (Alfie Williams) now a captive of Sir Jimmy (Jack OConnell) and his other Jimmies, you wouldn't give much for his chances of survival. Terrified and hopelessly out-knived he must face a duel to survive, but even if he wins what awaits him under the control of this megalomaniac who considers himself the direct heir of Satan himself? Meantime, the iodine-coated Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) is venturing from his Nissen hut under the ground long enough to try to experiment on the violent alpha whom he names Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry). He establishes quickly that morphine will becalm this mighty Jason Momoa lookalike, but what if he tries a cocktail of medication on him? Might he be able to impact on the psychotic behaviour of those infected?...

This was everything I wanted the first one to be.

Doc. Samson.

I have talked ill of mid-film song and dance performances. This exquisite morsel of a film won me over. My 16 year old satanist self was losing his little mind in there. Not even a film. But this bit is.

Certainly not the awkward, clunky garbage bits we have to deal with as we get close to Maiden.

King Jim and his gang is a good idea. Lots of cool things to spitball around the table. Hard to execute. But less speeches and more slicey dicey zombie time. I'm not buying what he's selling, apparently they aren't either so...why exactly do they go through the process of flaying people alive? It is stated that it's better to be they flayer than the flayee but the pre-flay...