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While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker--a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly, without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister, and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive.

I thought during the film that Jon (Charlie Shotwell) was neuro divergent. But after watching it, and googling it to find out what the heck it was about, I find out he's not neuro divergent. He just wants to find out what it's like to be 'adult', that is without anyone telling you what to do.

I read that there's an element abou how we raise our kids without consequences, and this is the result. But I read lot's of other things too. Some say it's a highbrow film, a piece of human art: I say it's just a load of old rubbish.

I completely wasted 1 hour and 45 minutes on this film that I won't ever get back and I'm annoyed at myself.

I rated it a 2.

Firstly, 28 Years Later suffers from some technical difficulties. The steady cam is not steady, and I almost got motion sickness through the wavering camera. Then the dust bunnies (blurred dots on the screen which are specs of dirt inside the camera.) This is unforgivable in a film of this supposed calibre.

Then the sound: appalling. The sound track is sometimes very clever, but not for this film. Many scenes had sounds that made you think something terrifying was happening, but there wasn't. At other times there was god awful music which did not match scenes and offered nothing whatsoever to the film.

The film was a mixture of disparate and sometimes chaotic scenes that did not flow into one another and did not form an overall plot. We kept asking each other "What's going on? Why did they do that? What's this got to do with anything?" It felt like they had a few ideas that would be good for a few scenes, but they had no clue how to join the scenes into a story.

Every time a zombie is hit by an arrow, the film freezes so you can see the arrow and the blood, then the motion starts again. It added absolutely nothing to the film and frustrated me with the constant stopping and starting.

It would have taken them 2 days to walk to the Gateshead Angel from Holy Island, and that's walking fast for 12 hours each day. Yet when they got there not only was there no evidence of the ruins of the massive sprawling town that Gateshead is, they are still no nearer to the fire than they were when Spike was out with his Dad and first saw the fire. Crazy.

Did I mention the utterly appalling soundtrack??

The end scenes were a farce. There really is no better word. It reminded me of something out of Clockwork Orange, with 10 Jimmy Savile's displaying grade 1 athletics in coloured tracksuits while annihilating zombies with golf clubs. An utterly nonsensical scene which was typical 70's slapstick and most of the cinema was chuckling at how bad it was.

I was massively disappointed given the price of the seats, and the fact I had been waiting with anticipation to see another great film in the sequence. As it happens it was a damp squib that people will laugh at later. I would seriously caution you to save your cinema money and wait until this streams.

I was very generous by giving this a 4 and that was mostly for Alfie.

Kate (Julianne Moore) is dealing with a personal tragedy while owning and training horses in Echo Valley, an isolated and picturesque place, when her daughter, Claire (Sydney Sweeney), arrives at her doorstep, frightened, trembling and covered in someone else's blood.

Right from the off the film promises to be something good, there's just a vibe about it. As the story grows you think it's going to be all about her wasting her life on her daughter and coming to an untimely end because of her.

But after some skilful twists and turns we realise it was never the film we thought it was going to be. Moore is fabulous as the mother, and Sweeney sure shows her acting chops as the wayward daughter. Domnhall Gleeson is at his menacing best in this taut, surprising thriller.

I very much enjoyed it and give it a solid 7.