Following 2002’s ‘28 Days Later’ and 2007’s ‘28 Weeks Later,’ the gore-soaked third installment of the franchise, starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes, is short on wit and narrative coherence.

When 28 Days Later hit screens in 2002, it unleashed a new tangible sense of everyday terror, as Cillian Murphy stumbled around London's chillingly deserted streets and landmarks, emptied by a zombie virus outbreak.

Danny Boyle says it was inevitable the Covid-19 pandemic would shape his latest film, 28 Years Later, which premiered in London on Wednesday (18 June). The post-apocalyptic horror, directed by Boyle,