It is strange to me that I had never seen this movie before today considering it's highly attractive position in culture and media. Nonetheless, it deserves a review relative to the current state of life, as its general message seems even more relevant today than it did when it was originally released.
I watched this movie in the regular theatrical release form and everything about it was excellent. It felt very believable, had excellent character development and relationships, was unpredictable, intense but not necessarily dark, and I found it to be a great movie experience. I really enjoyed watching the director's commentary on the deleted scenes and alternate endings which also gave very interesting insight to the movie retrospectively. It definitely made very poignant commentary on some of the challenges of society today. I was surprised to read the dvd case afterward stating the movie was "hailed as the most frightening film since The Exorcist" since, even though it was a fairly intense movie at times, it never really seemed actually scary to me... which is a fairly unusual thing for me since I usually don't go for horror movies since I tend to have an overactive imagination. It certainly left me thinking about things, don't get me wrong, just not the horror sorts of things that a horror movie usually does.
Anyway, I think that covers all the base points I wanted to hit. Giving the movie a number rating, I would put it at a 25 out of 28 days. Not perfect by any means but strong in every respect. High quality film making that would entertain any fan of the zombie-horror genre or Danny Boyle(the director.)
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