13 May 2007

Worst movie I have ever watched....

Went to watch a movie yesterday with Vince...not myself..but my uni fren with the same name. There were not many shows to watch as Spidey 3 was filling up most of the screens and I have already watched that. In the end, I was persuaded to watch 28 weeks later. I am not really into horror movies, I mean most of them are just mindless slasher pics with gore and not much of a plot, BUT 28 weeks later sure outdid every movie in this genre by its sheer stupidity. What a horrible piece of crap this show was that I really wanted to walk out of the theatre 30mins into the movie. Its predictable, loud, lame and plain stupid. I didnt watch the original "28 days later" but if it is as stupid as this, then no thanks. The movie started from the end of the first movie with a whole new group of victims. I guess the original cast - Cillian Murphy realised how crappy this movie is going to be before everyone else did. Anyway, this movie is full of the usual horror formula - Sudden loud bangs/screams...and the best formula used in all disaster or horror movies - stupid runaway kids. You know those kids who will do just the things you tell them not to. Basically, everyone in Britain were infected with this virus that turns them into walking flesh hungry zombies. In the end, everyone died and all these zombies died of starvation months later and lo and behold Uncle Sam comes to the rescue and set up a quarantine area in London. Soon people were allowed back to London to live in this quarantine zone and no one is supposed to cross the river to the other side. And guess what? The two kids did just that on their second day there just so that the boy can go back to his old house and get a picture of his mum. They sneaked past all the military personnel, snipers so effortlessly you laugh at what they mean by quarantine. Where the hell are the barb wires? In the end, the kids got more than they asked for back home - their mum who was biten but not turned into a zombie. And what they do next? They bring her right into the quarantine zone. So what happeed next were just plain ridiculous...father heard about mum, mum had virus in body but also had some form of immunity, father went to find her, and knowing so well about what happened, he decided to kiss her. Yeah, kiss her, can anyone be more stupid? And how did the father, a plain civilian has an all-access pass that allowed him to go through all security doors to his wife? And if she is someone so dangerous, why isnt there a single guard standing outside the room? So father turns into a zombie and kills everyone in sight. Quarantine breeched, lol, what quarantine?..and the military personnel decided to ask everyone in the zone to gather at a underground carpark and lock everyone inside before clearing that area..how convenient...and guess what? Daddy's there....and soon you get a whole street of zombies. Thats the whole idea. Everyone killing everybody. So whats next? Kill everyone..infected, uninfected. Bombs...poison gas...and our male lead (father) managed to escape all that. In the end, the two stupid kids who started all these were the only two survivors, and they were told to meet this guy who will pick them up at the stadium ..randomly, i mean it could be any place in London and the guy just said "Meet me at the stadium"..and amazingly, Daddy's there again! What are the odds man..this film just annoyed me from the start till the end. No logic, no story, no acting, just plain gore,blood and I dont know what. Unless you have money to spare or you are just plain stupid, avoid this movie at all costs.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry-- I thought you were talking about "Sunshine." Now, THAT's a crap movie. 28WL was actually kinda okay. Then again, anything that Alex Garland DIDN'T write sort of has a free ticket to "okay" right from the start....

Vincent Ong said...

Are you kidding me? Haha..at least Sunshine had a plot and decent visual effects and it was quite intense until the letdown at the ending.