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Avg. Critic Score: 73 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
Read Common Sense Media review

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    At once an old-fashioned freakout and an environmental cautionary tale (mess with Mother Nature and she'll mess with you right back), the film combines two genre standbys -- lethal contagion and the undead -- and gives them a wicked, contemporary spin. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland plumb the violence of the mind with slashing wit and shocking gravity. Happy nightmares. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A swankily austere piece of jeepers-creepers sci-fi. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Mr. Boyle has hardly lost his sly, provocative perversity or his ear for the rhythms of unchecked violence, but he does seem to be maturing. It's as if, in contemplating the annihilation of the human race, he has discovered his inner humanist. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    By the finish, the movie is getting by on little but adrenaline and audience goodwill. Still, that goodwill runs fairly deep, because, taken all in all, 28 Days Later is a superior motion picture. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The look of the film, shot on digital video, is haunting and gritty. The cleaner, prettier look of 35mm would have detracted from the immediacy and sense of foreboding created in this artful blend of sci-fi and pseudo-realism. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    A tough, smart, ingenious movie that leads its characters into situations where everything depends on their (and our) understanding of human nature. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Shows a rather arrogant disdain for its audience in between occasional flashes of flair. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Creepy and truly suspenseful in some places, unintentionally comic or plain awful in others. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Unrelentingly grim, unremittingly gross and unforgivably unattractive, 28 Days Later is an orgy of troubling images and bestial sound effects. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Viral apocalypse, zombies, and terror. For adults.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie is very scary and deeply disturbing. It has extreme and graphic peril and violence. Many characters are killed. Characters use very strong language. There is frontal male nudity. Characters drink and take drugs. There are sexual references, including rape.
  • Families can talk about the different characters' responses to ultimate questions about the meaning of life. Who is responsible for what happened? What will the world be like 10 years later?
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Graphic violence, characters killed. Extremely intense peril, very scary images.
  • sex false5 Sex: Full frontal nudity, sexual references, including rape.
  • language false5 Language: Very strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and drug use.

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