Jim is a bicycle messenger that gets into an accident and is taken to a hospital to be healed. But little does he know that while he is out of it for 28 days a terrible tragedy is about to befall the world. A virus that locks those infected into a permanent state of killing rage has been accidentally released from a British research facility when some animal activists try and rescue some monkeys that have been infected with the virus. Carried by animals and humans, the virus is impossible to contain, and spreads across the entire planet. Jim wakes to find himself alone in the hospital with nobody around confused to what has happened and no clue to the dangers that are about to befall him. As Jim wanders the abandoned streets alone he is about to find out that he is not alone, for not only has a few uninfected humans survived but so has a host of infected humans hell bent on dragging all humanity down with them. Twenty-eight days later, this small group of survivors whom some Jim befriends will find themselves trapped in London, caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected whom seem to be everywhere. And as they attempt to salvage a future from the apocalypse, they find that their most deadly enemy may not be the virus or those infected with it, but other survivors.

The first part of this movie is almost surreal and most definitely eerie as Cillian Murphy wanders the streets of London with no one in sight and humanity seeming to have totally disappeared. It gives a feeling and a mood that sets the stage for the rest of the movie as there are other survivors but they are locked in a desperate struggle to keep all mankind from being wiped out. This is what you might call your traditional zombie movie and maybe the feeling Resident Evil should have tried to go with in its release. While the movie does end exactly as you would expect it to with the traditional sappy and predictable ending this movie is more about getting to the end rather than the end itself. The movie does a great job at inflicting many emotions throughout such as terror, suspense, excitement and an over all feeling of eeriness. Cillian Murphy does a good job and portraying a confused and emotionally impacted human struggling for survival but I was quite disappointed in Naomie Harris acting job, as she never really draws you into her character. That being said this movie is a great suspense and thriller that keeps you enthralled and thirsting for more as it makes its way to the eventual and predictable end it seemed to be aimed for. This movie may not be suitable for the queasy or impressionable youth.
3.5 stars out of 5