28 Days Later

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2008)

Completely agreed that the movie is good - but where is the big difference to "28 days later"? Living in Europe, you just cannot rid yourself of the impression that at least a lot of US-movies recycle the ideas of previously successful international movies. I am always again amazed at how many times I think after a US-made film: "Well, that was nice. But I've seen the movie five years ago already, only then it was Spanish/German/British/Danish/French..." Nevertheless, if that is the only way to get fresh ideas across the Atlantic, I guess we will have to live with this. I am excited to see what America will turn the 1997 European cult shocker "Funny Games" by Michael Haneke into. I just read the other day that it was being re-filmed. So here we go, "Three men and a baby", "Vanilla Sky",... all over again.