


Most of the film takes place four weeks after the prologue, in which a bunch of militaristic animal-rights activists break into a lab where scientists have infected monkeys with a virus of “pure rage.” (The monkeys are watching footage of savage rioting, which I’d have predicted would discourage violence: That’s what it does to Alex in A Clockwork Orange. My guess is that Garland was bitterly disappointed by the new ending, because he turned around and wrote Danny Boyle a full-length flesh-gouging zombie movie called 28 Days Later (Fox Searchlight).
