Some folks were honestly befuddled when 28 Years Later ended this past summer. After watching a wistful and we would argue beatific meditation on death and the bitter pleasures in mortality, the last 90 or so seconds of the Danny Boyle and Alex Garland sequel to their zombie genre reinvention takes a WILD tonal shift. Out in the desolate countryside of a rage-virus-infected UK, young Spike (Alfie Williams) has bitten off more than he can chew by venturing into the wilderness. The lad finds himself cornered on a blocked path by ghouls who want to rip him limb from limb.

It is only then that he spots the bejeweled and swaggering Scotsman with a sense of showmanship: Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell), the same guy we saw as a kid in the movie’s prologue—right before his parents an

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