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Seen some early reports that this movie is "stealth woke" ie it initially shows no indication of wokery but then it creeps in later on. Can anyone confirm
The kind of imbecile that evaluates movies according to a made up metric of "wokeness" is going to see "wokeness" in anything he doesn't like. I wouldn't put any credence in such reports.
If you need a breakdown of the whole plot before going to see the film:
- As the title says, it's been 28 years since the initial outbreak out the Rage virus. The spreading of the virus to mainland Europe from the end of the second film was successfully contained (the film doesn't say it, but supplementary materials say that they nuked Paris almost immediately) and the virus is completely contained to the islands of Great Britain, with NATO maintaining an ironclad quarantine of ships that kills anyone trying to leave the islands.
- Communities of uninfected remain in the island, but are left to fend for themselves, as the NATO quarantine cordon will not risk even providing them with aid.
- The main plot deals with one such community living in Lindisfarne/Holy Island. They farm and fish but need to go to the British mainland for wood for fuel through a causeway that is accessible only at certain hours of low tide. They don't have guns any more and have gone back to bow and arrows.
- The main character is a 12 year old boy named Spike. He is taken by his father Jamie on his first hunt to the mainland, when as a rite of passage the youngsters are taken hunting infected, so they get used to killing them and wont hesitate in case of a real attack or emergency, but earlier than the normal 14/15 in the community.
- Spike and Jaime have a close call with the infected and have to stay overnight on the mainland. When they return Jaime lies and exaggerates Spike's accomplishments. Then Spike sees his dad sneaking away to have sex with a woman from the village, which deeply angers Spike because his mother Isla (Jaime's wife), is at home, with an illness nobody on Holy Island can diagnose or treat, which not only has her bedridden but having dementia-like episodes.
- Talking to a man in the village, Spike finds out that the fire he and Jaime saw while staying overnight in the mainland was lit by Dr. Kelson, who used to be the area's doctor before the outbreak but the villagers think has gone insane.
- Spike has a fight with his father and leaves Holy Island with his mother without permission to seek Kelson so he can help his mother.
- At the same time a Swedish NATO unit is forced ashore after their patrol boat sinks. They are all killed except one soldier named Erik. Erik knows it is quarantine policy not to rescue anyone who ends up in Britain, so he is fucked.
- Spike and Isla meet Erik and they head towards the spot were Kelson lives. Just before getting there they find and infected woman giving birth. Isla helps deliver the baby, a girl which is uninfected. Erik want to kill her anyway but before he can shoot her (and Spike and Isla for not moving out the way) and infected Alpha (a new variety of infected that has evolved since the outbreak) appears and rips out Erik's head and spine, Predator-style.
- The Alpha chases Isla, Spike and the baby but before he catches them Kelson saves them with a dart of a sedative that he has discovered is effective on the infected.
- Kelson is in fact a bit crazy, but not evil or dangerous. The weird shit he has been doing with dead bodies that has caused the villagers from Holy Island to fear him turns to be that he gather the bodies of the dead, infected and uninfected alike, boils the flesh from their bones and uses them to build a memorial to the dead. Kelson then speculates that the placenta is what protected the baby from being infected by the Rage virus.
- Kelson examines Isla and diagnoses that she has terminal cancer. Her mental episodes are the result of either the cancer spreading to her brain, or starting there and then spreading. Either way, she will be dead soon. Spike is inconsolable that nothing can be done after going through all that, but Isla knows what must be done. They sedate Spike and then she asks Kelson to euthanize her before the pain of the cancer gets worse.
- When Spike wakes up, Kelson has already cleaned Isla's bones and gives him his mother's skull to add to the memorial.
- Spike makes his way back to Holy Island, crosses the causeway in the dark before the dawn and leaves the baby in a basket at the gates of the fortifications with a note explaining what happened and asking them to take care of her. Then he takes off on his own to explore the mainland of Britain, because he's not ready to come home I guess.
- The movie then jumps ahead 28 days, and Spike is saved from a group of infected by a group of survivors in gaudy outfits, with gaudy weapons, led by a character that the audience recognizes as a grown up version of a child that was seen in the prologue of the film, watching his entire family dying during the initial outbreak. And clearly, this is the cliffhanger that leads into 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
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