28 Years Later: The Bone Temple review – A supremely satisfying horror thrill ride with unexpected depth ...Middle East

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It was a compelling twist to the saga which begun back in 2002 with 28 Days Later, hinting that the fourth entry in the franchise would be a very different kettle of fish – not necessarily played for full-on laughs, but certainly less ponderous than the perpetually grim bulk of its predecessor.

And so it proves, because this is the point where writer Alex Garland’s three-screenplay arc gains considerable momentum, courtesy of a deeper delve into its lead characters, a heightened sense of jeopardy and consequences, and inventively choreographed gore peppered with the some surprisingly decent gags.

Director Nia DaCosta, taking over from Danny Boyle, makes us wait for the battle proper, though, as the Fiennes and O’Connell characters don’t come face to face until past the halfway mark in proceedings, by which time the motivations of both have been firmly established.

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It occasionally feels like DaCosta’s vision of dystopia is being filtered through the lens of an ‘80s music video, especially so when a pivotal scene is played out to a soundtrack of Iron Maiden’s heavy metal banger The Number Of The Beast, but it’s an allowable level of gloss that enriches the spectacle without distracting from Fiennes’s or O’Connell’s end games.

Williams, the beating human heart of the first instalment in the trilogy, has less to do this time around, although his anxious reactions to the Jimmies’ relentless mayhem still impress as the film’s moral compass of sorts.

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Both actors imbue events with personality, bringing rich textures to the story that have been largely missing since 28 Days Later, resulting in a supremely satisfying horror thrill ride with unexpected depth.

That third film’s contents are teased in the epilogue to The Bone Temple, with a very familiar face from the franchise’s beginnings called into action again, for one last frenzied feast with (hopefully) plenty of crowd-pleasing flavour.

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