28 Weeks Later (2007)

28 Weeks Later is a sequel I never thought I\'d see, and quite frankly, I didn\'t want to see it. 28 Years Later is a perfect little horror movie, and the melodic theme of a follow up really steamed me. I\'m tired of rehash, merely, as it turns out, this isn\'t a rehash at all. It actually expands on ideas developed in the first film and moves it forrader with an inspired story of it\'s own. As the film opens, we\'re introduced to Don. He and his wife bear found good haven in an English language country slope cottage during the first film\'s deadly outbreak. The couple share the belongings with a small band of survivors. Of form all well things moldiness come to an end, and before long, the infected find the peaceful little utopia, and tone-beginning without warning. Somehow, Don manages to escape (in a horrifying bit of visceral terror), but some of the other survivors aren\'t so lucky. Months pass, and the plague appears to have been contained. Dependable havens have been limit up passim the state, but the military maintains a watchful eye in the case of another outbreak. Don is finally reunited with his children and put up in a new home. Life begins once more. That is, until the inevitable happens. To the military\'s shock, the virus resurfaces, and in a matter of minutes, it spreads like wild fire turning harmless folk into rabid monsters. 28 Weeks Later takes it\'s predecessor\'s concept and amplifies the tension, and while it lacks the drama and character of the first-class honours degree film, it does carry the story in new horrifying directions while maintaining that same ominous signified of dread. One of the most interesting aspects of this follow up is how the virus re-surfaces. Without giving excessively much away, let\'s just say it\'s at the dramatic core of the movie. What\'s more, we discover that some individuals have developed an immunity to the plague and this takes the moving-picture show in a very interesting direction. 28 Weeks After is a pure horror movie, only it\'s a great deal different than, say, Zack Synder\'s take on Dawning of the Dead (although the openings of both films are comparable). As was the case with that moving picture, this is a film in which any type might die at any time, just the tension in 28 Weeks Later is far more invariant. Be it a terrific scene in which threesome survivors experience to make their manner through a pitch dark subway burrow filled with dead bodies, to a sequence in which the military fire bombs the city, in that location is no shortage of sweat inducement thrills in this movie. What\'s more than, 28 Weeks Later doesn\'t shy forth from the unexpected, no matter how shocking (one character dies in an unpredictable and brutal fashion). Not to be outdone, 28 Weeks Later ups the gore factor, and there\'s nada cheesy or b-movie-ish around any of this hooey save for a eggbeater sequence that might receive been more effective had not Grindhouse pulled the same stunt a month and a half before. Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has much in common with Danny Boyle in terms of the way he\'s shoots a motion picture. 28 Weeks Later was shot digitally, and much of it was hand held. The difference is, Fresnadillo\'s film takes a while to find it\'s footing. Some of the shaky photographic camera work and quick clipping choices in the former goings on of the movie, make it unmanageable to discover what\'s passing on. Things do opened up as the film progresses. The screenplay does feature some silly dialog and stock characters, and certainly falls into typical horror film cliches. For example, I found it a bit inane that two children decide to break out of the safe zone, and go cruising through a serious area by means of a bike. What\'s even more farcical is how easily they pull this little stunt off. There are former flaws to be establish in the movie. The biggest involves an septic civilian (and a key character in the plastic film) who handily manages to pop up in the perfect stead at just the right time. I\'m being a wee bit vague here, because this happens to be a pretty big plot point. For the most role though, the movie plant. It\'s fast paced and full of enough thrills and chills to sex fans of the genre, and it gets incentive points for a gutsy ending. 28 Weeks Later is provocative and haunting, and I was completely surprised by it.

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Auto Focus (2002)

After wake Paul Schrader\'s fantastic new film Auto Focus, I felt so dirty that I needed to rush home and take a shower. Spell this movie\'s main character is Hogan\'s Heroes star topology Bob Crane (beautifully played by an energetic Greg Kinnear), Car Focus is a plastic film about dependance. So while you whitethorn not leave this picture show feeling you know more about Stephen Crane the man, you will experience that which dragged this likable TV personality into the depths of destruction. Automobile Focus begins pre-Hogan\'s Heroes as we\'re introduced to loving family man and radio personality Bob Crane. While Harold Hart Crane enjoys his job, he aspires for something greater. Things look up when his agent hooks him up with a screen test for a new sitcom. That sitcom would be Hogan\'s Heroes, and it would change his life incessantly. Before long, Crane befriends video applied science specialist Saint John Carpenter (played with creepy-crawly glee by Willem Dafoe), and their friendship leads Crane down a way of life of sexual addiction that proves to be fateful in more than ways then one. Saul Schrader is a seasoned pro when it comes to delving into the minds of withdrawn characters (see the brilliant Cab Driver). His take on Crane is extremely interesting because he never chooses to make a villain out of the sitcom star. This is a story about a normal, decent guy who non only waterfall into a deviate lifestyle for no apparent reason, but doesn\'t seem to see anything wrong with it. Schrader isn\'t necessarily interested in telling us why Crane went in this direction, and the truth is, there probably isn\'t a reason. Sometimes, people just now do things because they can. Was he seduced by the power of celebrity? Was he blase with his everyday life? Who knows. Schrader like an expert gives us an sexual and surly glimpse into the world of addiction. Schrader is also a wizard when it comes to recreating scenes from Hogan\'s Heroes. The numerous recreations in this picture are very detailed and more than impressive. As well directed and written as this picture is, Kinnear is also a big key to Machine Focus being as effective as it is. His sheer likability and charisma keep Crane from decorous a repelling, one dimensional parody. This is a fully rough-textured character, and in the end, I felt lamentable for Crane, even though I was fully mindful that all the bad things happening to him, were because of his own doing. Kinnear is able to convey the sympathy factor even when he\'s piquant in all this naughty behavior. Willem Dafoe too soars as the creepy, lonely Carpenter. In the early goings on, he appears to be the devil preeminent a helpless Crane down a self destructive way, but in the end, he\'s nix more then a sad, lonely soul, who has to sponge onto others to feel important. And through it all, Crane and Carpenter were rightful friends in every sense of the word. The supporting cast is too stellar; featuring fantastic work from Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, Ron Liebman, Michael Rodgers, Kurt Fuller, and Bruce Solomon. Auto Focus is depressing, grim, and provocative. It\'s also very funny, fifty-fifty if it\'s subject matter is null to laugh at. Schrader, Kinnear, and Dafoe deliver made an extremely effective tale about an odd, volatile friendly relationship and a life neutering addiction. This is one of the year\'s best films.