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They somewhat undersold this one. Previews looked decent and good leads, but just didn't hear about it much and forgot about it. There's nothing specifically unique about it but the whole movie really worked for me. Relatable characters and stakes. Nothing too crazy our outlandish happens. Jack Quad did a great job. Conveying mental illness can be tricky and film depictions often come off oversimplified, at best. I appreciated that he didn't take a break from being miserable for plot convenience.

I found myself laughing quite a bit. Particularly Jeffrey Deann Morgan's delivery. I'm not sure if they're calling this action or comedy or what. Elements of all that. I'd call it a semi-dark buddy movie. It really works on its own merits. Nothing super extreme, just a solid movie.

I enjoyed the dynamic between the two leads and how it developed. Jeffrey Dean Morgan starts out dismissive and rude then grudgingly cooperative. But as they work together he finds several low-key ways to get thru to Quaid's character that showed how his characters position had changed. But subtly and not blatantly telegraphed, and things it actually made sense to try. Anyway, intelligently written too. Check it out if you're in the fence

P. S. I couldn't help but notice there's a pic of the two stars with who I assume were local police. Particularly Officer Woodard there next to Jack Quaid. Says filmed in Alabama so is it actually legal for police there to carry push daggers on their belts? And if so, why? (Why is it legal and/or why would you). I can't think of any justifiable law enforcement use for a punching knife. I can think of a worse knife for general EDC/cuttin stuff. LEO's seem to be skirting the laws they're tasked with enforcing by calling these "seat belt cutters" lol.

Figured I'd give 28 Weeks another spot before seeing 28 Years tomorrow. An interesting sequel: great cast, not a bad movie per se.... it's not bad but it's never better than I remembered it either.

Anyway, I'm here because I couldn't help noticing the odd description Hulu/Disney has up. I'm lazy so I'll paraphrase but basically says, "28 Weeks after everyone in the UK is wiped out by virus etc the island is declared safe and people move back. Only to be attacked by thousands infected by a new airborne version of the virus."

Say what? I thought everything was going hunky dory until this one character abuses their keycard privileges and gets chomped on by their weird spouse then runs around biting people. I mean if it was airborne then everyone would just be infected and that would be that. Which could still be sort of a fun movie. Hoardes of grungy bums standing around panting, then sporadically sprinting after pigeons. Anyway seems odd. Was it too much trouble to paraphrase Wikipedia's description? Am I just totally forgetting some airborne angle? It's so specifically not correct is the thing. Maybe they saw one of the posters with a surgical mask and made a deductive leap?

Anyway, feel good knowing those affordable Disney prices are going towards quality. I would like to point out that internal combustion engines need air to operate so I can't help but think a car would stall if it was being bathed with flamethrowers. But whatevs, whole scene doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Running from air is never that cinematic. Though it beats running from cold (some horrible disaster movie with Jake Gyllenhal ...didn't spell that right either).