New Release Review – “28 Years Later”

Following the conclusion of the original run of Planet of the Apes movies in the ’70s, European cinemagoers were surprised to find a new batch of Planet of the Apes movies arriving in their local picture palaces. These new movies weren’t actually movies at all, but two episodes of the Planet of the Apes TV show stitched together to fill a feature length running time. 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland‘s belated (or five years early?) third instalment of their not-zombie franchise, might be mistaken for two episodes of The Walking Dead glued together and released into cinemas.

The series finds itself a victim of its own success. 2002’s 28 Days Later spawned the 2000s/2010s…