"You know what zombie movies never seem to have enough of? Dancing. They've got gore and screaming and lots of guttural snarling, but no boogie. That all changes with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and the dancing here is to - naturally off-kilter - 1980s heroes Duran Duran. Nia DaCosta directs from a returning Alex Garland script and it starts right where 2025's 28 Years Later - directed by Danny Boyle - left off."
"Jimmy - played by a diabolical Jack O'Connell in a tracksuit and gold chains, like a low-level Mafia lieutenant from The Sopranos - leads a band of young psychopaths, as deadly to both virus survivors as the snarling, semi-human infected. They don blond wigs and each is named Jimmy. There's a whiff of A Clockwork Orange about them - menacing, prone to ultraviolence, gleeful in destruction. "Does that sound like normal screaming, Jimmy?" one asks. Spike, bless his heart, doesn't belong here."
Nia DaCosta directs 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple from a returning Alex Garland script, continuing directly from 2025's sequel and connecting to the original franchise. The film injects unexpected moments of dancing set to Duran Duran songs amid graphic gore and snarling infected. Jack O'Connell portrays Jimmy, a tracksuit-clad leader of a gang of young psychopaths who are as dangerous as the infected, adopting blond wigs and an A Clockwork Orange–like menace. A surprising bond develops between Kelson and an Alpha infected, revealing moments of shared morphine-fueled bliss and surreal tenderness amidst ultraviolence.
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