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 franchise’s 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 surviv...

I don’t 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.

It’s fucking nuts, it’s a fucking treat. Thank you Nia DaCosta, thank you Ralph Fiennes, thank you Jack O’Connell. 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" fro...

"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 your...

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 Jim...