
Discussing the chaotic final scenes of “28 Years Later” requires revisiting its early parts. The movie begins in Scotland’s Highlands at the onset of the rage-virus pandemic, with Danny Boyle and Alex Garland revisiting the themes from their 2002 collaboration, “28 Days Later.” A family is seen in front of Teletubbies, trying to fend off the approaching zombie horde – although these films don’t refer to the infected as ‘zombies’, we can understand that here. However, their home gets overrun, and only one child, Jimmy (Rocco Haynes), survives by fleeing to a church in search of his preacher father (Sandy Batchelor). Sadly, Dad isn’t interested in saving Jimmy; he sees the rage apocalypse as the day of judgment, and he embraces the coming of the new zombie rulers. Jimmy manages to hide, witnessing in horror as his father gets infected.