28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)★ 7.5/10

What was supposed to be a fan service film turns out to be, in the human sentiment department, an infinitely more profound experience than its 2 predecessors. It is not only worth the watch, but makes and already magnificent series of movies into something more. Loved it and wanna make love to it.

The first one was an experience that leaves residue on your brain. This one felt clean in the worst way: competent, watchable, occasionally fun, then gone.

You can feel Danny Boyle’s world in there somewhere, like a ghost the movie keeps bumping into, but it never finds. There’s plenty of character work, but it comes at the cost of momentum. The film keeps circling itself instead of moving forward, like it confused depth with progress. By the end I didn’t feel like I’d been taken anywhere. It played like a side quest. Not a miss, but definitely not a hit.

Zombie movies have had many iterations over the years. Movies that focus on zombies being the main obstacle of survival. Movies that focus on how humans slowly become monsters. 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is the latter. This takes place straight after last year’s 28 YEARS LATER. Spoiler warning for that movie! Spike (Alphie Williams) is now with a gang of people who resemble Jimmy Seville (I had to look him up), who follow a man calling himself Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell). Meanwhile, Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) is still doing his life’s work, trying to find a little lost humanity. He has a strange but beautiful relationship with an “Alpha” zombie he calls Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry), who he keeps drugged for his safety. Director Nia DaCosta has taken over duties from Danny Boyle. She got a raw deal back in 2023 with THE MARVELS. It was a very studio-driven movie, and she didn’t have much input. I’m happy to say that she has definitely bounced back with this one. If you didn’t like how the previous film ended, fear not! DaCosta smartly chose to go the opposite way in terms of the tone. The satanic Jimmy cult is terrifyingly savage and brutal. Their scenes are a little reminiscent of CLOCKWORK ORANGE. The leader is truly a monster, using cult tactics to have his followers (which he calls his Fingers) do his bidding. The script goes between these two plots, which might be jarring for some, until they intertwine in the most badass way possible. This film is about the nature of evil. Surprisingly, there are quite a few very funny moments amid the brutality and violence, including one scene that feels like a jaw-dropping music video. The idea that humans are the real monsters has been seen before, but it just feels deeper than that here. This sequel expands on Fiennes’ character. He turns it up to 11 and breaks the knob off. Jack O’Connell plays the perfect charismatic, sadistic monster, as he did just last year in SINNERS. This movie is extremely violent, it’s just different when it’s human on human. This is the middle chapter of a planned trilogy, and I am hotly anticipating the finale. Overall, 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE delves even deeper into this well-crafted post-apocalyptic world that has some truly fascinating characters to watch. I didn’t think this franchise could get any better, yet here we are.

Muestran algo medianamente novedoso en un apocalipsis zombie pero ejecutados de mejor forma que en la mayoría de otros títulos similares. Se logra porque te importan sus personajes y por la dirección de Nia DaCosta.
Lo mejor es Ralph Fiennes como una de los mejores sobrevivientes de un apocalipsis zombie.

Mirou no Savile, acertou no Cobain, juro, quando olhava pro O'Connell via o Kurt toda vez. Mas sobre o filme, Nia DaCosta foi a escolha certa para continuar a franquia, ela ousou mais, sem medo e trouxe um resultado muito satisfatório nas duas vertentes, tanto lá no Kelson, quanto no Crystal. Cheio de símbolos e mais violento que o anterior. Deus te abençoe, Nia, e vamos fechar essa bagunça com chave de ouro, Howzat?!

Muy buena . Gran escena de Ralph Fiennes.

Me pareció adecuada y de Dany boyle es su mejor trabajo. Después de tanto esperar

Cool

Great

La mejor de la saga

En verdad no sabía de que trataba la película, ni mucho menos que era la continuación de otra, ni siquiera secuela sino una historia inmediata de la anterior, por lo que me quedaron algunas lagunas, las primeras escenas me alteraron bastante por lo sanguinarias y crudas que son, debo confesar, que pensé en abandonar el cine, pero me quedé y comencé a entender la trama, no sin antes quedar asombrado por la fotografía y, claro la música de fondo, las cuales contrastan con las escenas más crudas de la misma, que en muchas ocasiones se ven muy sangrientas y plagadas de gritos, al no ver la película anterior no entendí nada de la parte final de la película, ahora al ver las explicaciones la entiendo un poco más, así como tampoco entendí la relación entre el niño y como lega allí, es una película interesante y se entiende mucho más al conocer la trama de la primera y dejan el final abierto para una tercera, gran trabajo el de los actores principales y muy buenas actuaciones de todos en general.