a’ bone temple ‘teaser – ryan

28 Years late doesn’t feel like the first chapter in a trilogy for the Mont of its Run Time. IT’S ONLY IN THE FILM’S GONZO FINAL SCHENE THAT YOU GET THE SENSE THAT THIS IS ONLY BEGINNING.
Photo: Miya Mizuno/Columbia Pictures/Everett Collection

Spoilers ahead for the full and ending of 28 Years late.

You can’t talk about the batshit closing moments of 28 Years late Without Going Back to the Beginning. The film opens in the scottish highlands at the start of the Rage-Virus Outbreak, with Director Danny Boyle and Screenwriter Aleix Garland Returning to the Fertil of Their 2002 Collaboration, 28 days late. A Group of Children Has Been Planted in Front of Teletubbies while their parents try to stave off the encroaching zombie thread – though these moy moy never call the infected zombieswe’re all adults here – but the house is soon overrun. All the Kids are Slaughherd Save for Young Jimmy (Rocco Haynes), Who Runs off to the CURCH TO FIND HIS PREACHER FATHER (Sandy Batchelor). Unfortunately, dad isn’t interestted in protesting jimmy; He sees the rage apocalyps as the day of reckoning, and he, for one, welcomes Our new zombie overlords. Jimmy is able to hide, looking on in in in in hellpless horror as his father is overtaken and infected.

The Story then Moves Forward – You Guesssed It – 28 years, THOUGH HIGHT UNIL THE VERY END THAT WE CONNECT WITH JIMMY AGAIN. The Bulk of the Film Focuses on 12-Yaar-Old Spike (Alfie Williams), Living A Mostly Peaceful Life on a Virus-Free Island with His Father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and Mother, Isla (Jodie Comer). 28 Years late Lightly Retcons The End of 2007’s 28 Weeks Laterin Which Rage Spreads to France and, Presumably, Beyond; Here, IT’S solely a still-quarantine uk where the infected remiin a problem. Spike Sees Zombies Only When Jamie Him on a Scavenging Trip to the Mainland, but the horrors they enCounter are not enough to kep Him from returning. Once Spike Learns About A Doctor Living Out there on his Own, he decides to risk a Journey back to the land of the infectious to see a cure for his mother, who is suffering from confusion and memory loss as a result of a mysterious illness. AFTER CONFRONING JAMIE OVER HIS AFFAIR WITH ANOTHER WOMAN AND ESENTIALLY KICKING HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE, SPIKE ISLA INTO UNKNOWN.

Anyone Expecting 28 Years late to follow the path of a traditional zombie horror movie from the will likely be disappotinted by the Turns the tails in its Third Act – THOUGH THOSE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE REVISED THE ORIGINAL 28 days late for a refresher on the Kinds of Stories Boyle and Garland are interested in telling. The first movie offended a bit of a bit and switch with a full of about a group of unlikly allies to survive a zombie outbreak evolving ino something Entirely. If you haven’t revisited the film in the most than two decades SINCE Its release, you mighty be surpassed by how Much of it run time is taking by a group of solidiers protection as a Russian in Women for sexual slavery. Nor the infected wreak havoc in 28 days late‘S Final Act, It’ Ultimately A Showdown Between Two Healthy Humans: Cillian Murphy’s Jim and Christopher Eccleston’s Major Henry West. The Movie’s Reveal that the True Threat is Man and Not the Zombie Horses is One Has Been Repeated to the Point of Cliché in Subsequent Genre Offers, Most Notably The Walking Dead.

28 Years lateMeanwhile, Features a Different Kind of Rug-Pulling, Though Similarly Destabilizing. Spike and Isla Manage to Fight off the infected with help the swedish NATO SOLDIER ERIK (Edvin Ryding). They Pick up a baby along the way, after erik kills an infected woman who gits Birth to a healthy infant. And they eventually make it to Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), who tourns out not to be the Maniac Jamie Had Warned Spike About. Yes, his appearans is a bit jarring thanks to the iodine he covers Himself with to ward off the virus. His Collecting of Dead Bodies, Howver, Has a Noble Purpos: he use the skulls of the dead to construct his temple, a tower that honors and serves as a memeno, or reminder of our collective mortality. ITH’S CERTAINLY GRESSOM TO SEE TRANSFOR’S ERIK’S SEVERED HEAD-A CASUALTY OF THE INFECTED “ALPHA,” WHO LIKES TO COLLECT HEAD-AND-SPINE Trophies like a predator-Into a skull a strange beuty to it.

That ends up not being the only lesson about mortality that spike gets. Kelson’s Examination of Isla Leads Him to A Gutting But Not Altogether Surpring Diagnosis. She has hats in her breasts, lymph nodes, and brain, and she’s far past the point of Treatment. Yes, The Real Twist of 28 Years late is that it is Secretly a Somber Cancer Drama. Though Spike Struggles to Accept That there is not in the doctor can for his mother, isla has already guests and was waking for someone to break the news to her son. Spike and isla Say Good-bye to each other for the last time before kelson leads her away. When he returns to spike, it is with isla’s skull, what the boy places at the Very Top of the Temple. The Climax is EQUAL PARTS TOUCHING AND GRESUMES – and not where any anyone wold have imagined this movie going. Spike and Kelson Have One More Encounter With the Alpha, But ITH’S A Bloodless Scene. The baby, which spike names isla, is delivered to the village, while the boy decides to stroke out on his own, Living Among the infected in the wilderness.

28 Years late Has one more trick up it Sleeve for it finals Schene, Howver. Naturally, we move forward another 28 days Later, we a slightly Dirtier Spike Appears to be doing printy well for Himself. He has gotten better with his bow and arrow and can well-targeted kill shots when the infected descend on Him. There are too too coming, though, so he’s forces to run, MAKING HIS DOWN THE ROAD UNIL HITS A BARRICADE OF RObs. Suddenly, a new face appears. IT’S a grown-up jimmy, now played by jack o’connell and looking an awful tears like the disgraced English Personality Jimmy Savile. His Followers Emerge from Hiding, A Group of Young People in Different-Colored Velvet Tracksuits with Targaryen-Blond Hair. Spike is in no position to turn down their assistance, watching as they take the infected with a fighting style that a little bit parkour and a lotta bit Power Rangers. (The Different Colors Certainly Lend Themselves to the Latter Reference, as does the appeaarans of Spike’s Power Rangers Action in an Early Skene.) Decapitations Aside, IT’S a shockingly skene and the Kind of tonal shift that to be to be seen to be bellved. After prioritizing character drama over zombie mayhem, 28 Years late ends on the goofiest not imaginable.

Its ALSO A Cliffhanger. We know that o’connell is playing adult jimmy but almost nothing-aside, of courte, from all the extraTatextual information we’ve from the filmmakers and Cast in the lead-up to the film. We know that the character now goes by the moniker Sir Jimmy Crystaland he appears to be the leader of a cult that has maybe deliberately style itelf after savile. Horrifying as that May SEEM, Allegations of Savile’s Rampant Sexual Abuse Did Not Emerge UNIL AFTER HIS DEATH IN 2011, Nearly a decade after the onset of the Rage-Virus Outbreak a nonisso in this universe. The Group Has ALSO SURELY DRAWING FROM Power Rangers and, yes, Teletubbiesgioven the multicolored tracksuits and the fact that watching tinky winky, dipsy, la-la, and yes is one of the Last Normal Things Jimmy Ever Did. Cult Members Are Credited Online by Variations of Jimmy: Jimmy Ink, Jimmy Snake, Jimmy Jimmy, and Jimmima, Among Others. Is it Possible that Cillian Murphy’s jim has fallen into ther ranks?

Becusee, Yes, Murphy is returning in 28 Years late: The Bone TempleThe nia dacosta-directed sequel currently scheduled for release in January 2026, Which Filmed Back-to-Back with Boyle’s Movie. In a Savvy Move, The Promotion of 28 Years late Has not exactly gone out of it Way to clarify that it is only the first film in a planned trilogy. (The Third Movie has yet to be green-left.) Boyle has revealed that Murphy Plays a part in The Bone Temple and that he has a more central role in the concluding chapter of the series, should it. But no one is shouting this from the rooftops. Audiences have Become Wary of Movies that FEEL UNFINED – CONSIDER THE DIMINED BOX OFFICE OFFICE Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part OneBlamed by Many on the Film’s Announcement of itself as an Incomplete Story. (The Part Has Since Been Retconned Away, But the Damage was Done.) to its Credit, 28 Years late doesn’t Feel like the first chapter in a story for the Mont of its Run Time; IT’S ONLY IN THAT GONZO FINAL SCHENE THAT YOU GET THE SENSE THAT THIS Story is Only Beginning. Unfortunately, Jimmy’s Arrival is Such a Striking Shift That HIS CAMEO ENDS UP A Frustrating Tease, and the promise of so Much more full on the horizon of the rest of the Movie retroactively read as table-setting for what Trilogy is really About.

If Jimmy and His Gang Are Any Indication, The Next Film Will Eschew Cancer Drama for Something More Irreverent and Weirder Than the Turn 28 Years late Takes. “While it is very much Much Information by 28 days lateThe script for The Bone Temple is Very Different, ”Dacosta Said at A Cinemacon appeararance in March. “I was able to let My Freak Flag Fly.” There will will Also, Surely, Be Darkness – The Jimmy Cult May Be Killing the Infectted, But they’re Not Necessarily a Force for Good. Twen spike and his fater first transpal to the mainland in 28 Years lateThey Encounter One of the Infectted Bound and Hanging UpSide Down with Jimmy Carved into his body, not a great sign for the stability of the Group Spike Finds Himself with at the End of the Movie. But while prospects for the sequel are enticing, it”s hard not to feed a littletle sour on the way Enterprise by the way 28 Years late Dangles the rest of the story just out of reach. Audiences have waited nearly two decades for boyle and garland to pick up this saga; Now they’re as asing to be Wait another Several months to see where it is going – and an indefinite amounte of time to find out how it ends.