Rating of
3/4
Bones and All
Chris Kavan - wrote on 10/01/25
While this is a different beast than the first two installments, Danny Boyle still knows how to craft a clever zombie-adjacent horror film. With the entire island of Great Britain quarantined, we follows a self-sufficient community as Spike (Alfie Williams) is taken to the mainland by his father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) for a kind of coming-of-age/initiation as he faces the remains of the infected. But a close encounter with an alpha almost spells disaster - but they return and are celebrated as heroes. But Spike only wants to help his mother, Isla (Jodie Comer) who is suffering from some ailment - beyond any kind of help the community can offer. But his grandfather plants a seed - a doctor may still be alive - and Spike, with his ailing mother in tow - returns on his own. A harrowing journey awaits - including a run-in with a pregnant infected, and the good doctor (Ralph Fiennes in a fantastic performance) is indeed still alive and facing the horrors of the world in his own way. A poignant end - until, of course, we meet Jimmy (teased throughout the film) - who is set up for what is looking like an even more wild sequel.
The film will certainly be divisive but I found it invigorating given how rote the whole zombie genre has become.
