Call it mad human disease. While the World Health Organization scrambles to contain SARS and inspectors search Iraq for evidence of bioterror, director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach) has unleashed his own weapon of mass distraction, starring superpathogens instead of superheroes. In the horror flick 28 Days Later - which overran Britain this winter before hitting US theaters June 27 - Homo sapiens comes face-to-face with the Rage virus, a lab-created nightmare unwittingly released by a cadre of animal rights activists. Surgical masks and road blocks prove ineffective in slowing Rage's spread, and 28 days later only a handful of survivors are left. The science, Boyle points out, isn't too far-fetched; researchers at SUNY Stony Brook have already built a synthetic polio virus from scratch using store-bought materials. Boyle shot on DV to get that headline-news feel. Like this subject needs it.
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