The movie opens up on, what we assume are, animal activists breaking into a lab to release chimps the believe are being abused/tested on. They stumble upon a lab worker who tries to tell them that these chimps are infected with a disease he calls "rage", but they do not listen and start releasing them. causing the chimps to attack them.
Four week later Jim wakes up alone in a hospital. He had had a bicycle accident and been in surgery when the disease spread enough to make the hospital evacuate. He stumbles around the hospital and the streets of London confused and angry at the fact that his city is empty. He finds his way to a church, hoping to find some answer and boy does he find them.
The church is filled with the infected and many dead bodies. Jim eventually connects the dots and realizes that a massive disease has affected London, possibly the world. While trying to find more information, Jim find himself surrounded by a swarm of zombies. Selena and Mark, well verse with the zombies, save him.
Something that always fascinated me about this movie was that they somehow got shots of London completely empty of humanity. From their IMDB trivia page it mentions how they had to close roads at 4 am to get shoot these scenes. They had police close the roads but also persuaded some attractive women to tell drivers about the delays, so that people would be less angry.
This is the must-see, essential zombie movie of the last 15 years, just an all around amazing watch.
10/10 For a great story, acting and being beautifully shot.
87% Critics score from Rotten Tomatoes
7.6 from IMDB
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