"28 Years Later": A Brainy, Brutal, and Bizarre Return to the Rage

"28 Years Later": A Brainy, Brutal, and Bizarre Return to the Rage

"28 Years Later": A Brainy, Brutal, and Bizarre Return to the Rage Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, the visionary minds behind the groundbreaking "28 Days Later," have reunited after decades to unleash  "28 Years Later"  upon the world. This much-anticipated sequel, hitting theaters now, is proving to be a wild, tonally daring, and often unsettling return to their infected-ridden post-apocalyptic Britain. Critics are praising its ambition, visual inventiveness, and willingness to push the boundaries of the zombie genre (or "infected" genre, as Boyle prefers). Set nearly three decades after the initial Rage virus outbreak, "28 Years Later" picks up with a new generation navigating a world drastically altered by the pandemic. The film introduces fresh horrors, including new mutations of the infected – from "slow-and-lows" (obese, crawling creatures) to "Alphas" (smarter, stronger, and faster variants that will certainly give…