28 Days Later + + + - - Dir: Danny Boyle With: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson, Noah Huntley, Christopher Eccleston, Luke Mably, Ray Panthaki 113 mins, cert 18 www.28dayslaterthemovie.co.uk.

(From The Guardian)

Danny Boyle's exhilarating new film is in the spirit of the classic small-screen post-apocalypse fantasies from the 1970s and 1980s: dramas such as Threads and Survivors. A fatal virus is released when animal rights activists release chimps infected with "rage". Twenty-eight days later, a terrified bike messenger called Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up in a London hospital, the city in ruins and apparently deserted, the infected populace rampaging around somwhere like vampiric mad dogs. It is when he teams up with some of the few uninfected people - played by Brendan Gleeson, Naomie Harris and Megan Burns - and heads for a supposedly safe army …