- Starring
- Jack O'Connell, Ralph Fiennes
- Director
- Nia DaCosta
- Rating
- R
- Genre
- Horror
- Release date
- Jan 16, 2026
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the sequel to last year’s revival. Picking up almost immediately after the events of its predecessor, it plunges deeper into a ravaged Britain where the Rage-infected are no longer the sole nightmare—human survivors, including a sadistic cult led by the charismatic Jimmy Crystal, unleash far stranger and more horrifying threats.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple MINI-Review
Meaningless. That’s the word that best describes The Bone Temple. Ralph Fiennes’ incomparable talent aside, this spin-off/sequel of 28 Years Later is two hours of world-building for a world that’s already been built.
WOKE REPORT
Apocachicks
- The story isn’t complex enough to support genuinely layered characters, so it’s not as though anyone is highlighted or raised above the rest of the cast in any meaningful way. However, it’s at least mildly noteworthy that, out of the intentionally interchangeable group of blonde children, the girls are the best fighters and the most feared. One of them is also the only one who seems to realize that their leader is full of crap. She’s the smartest, the wisest, and the only one with an ounce of compassion or depth.
- I didn’t mark down the Woke-O-Meter down much because, even though she’s a girl boss, she doesn’t really do much of anything throughout the movie.
- Spike, whose entire character arc in the last film is discovering his inner strength and overcoming his fear, has been reduced to a meek weakling in this film.
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
This movie bothered me for being on a really subversive level of woke.
The bit at the end (spoiler-ish), that some won’t notice because of how it is subtly thrown in, is how the ‘big reveal’ character threw in ‘Nationalism’ with fascism as things England was trying to fight against. That’s the first time I’ve seen nationalism bundled in with the other ultimate evil things in the world like fascism.
What really ground on me for a good hour after watching this, was that the Irish Actor that said it is from a country that is suffering a lot because of this kind of attempt to fight nationalism and opening the doors to multiculturalism, all whilst historically doing that thing of standing with his hands in his pockets when around British Royalty – That’s borderline Nationalism, mate. Sure he’s an actor, but a well-established one that doesn’t have to pay his dues this much.
This pompous review on IMDB, that calls the English countryside fascist, sums up some of the woke quite well:
”The film explores many themes pertinent to contemporary life in the Commonwealth, in a highly fictionized environment. It captures you and draws you in, reminding you of your own life. The artistry is spectacular.
The film heavily deals with the theme of escape, as well try to escape our nativist conservative ethno-fascist community, to seek out a more progressive existence, only to be shackled by marauding conservatives on our quest for a multicultural society. There is hope yet, like the dear doctor, who passes the torch to more deserving people, which is what Samson symbolizes. In the end Samson survives and prospers in what can only be symbolic of the English fascist countryside, as survivors of the old racist order perish.”
All this aside, there’s a lot of parts that make no sense and the decisions of the characters don’t fit with their character up until that point. It’s bad writing. Girl-bosses galore (they are a given these days, with their masculine traits) and the non-white characters are the smart and moral characters (especially Erin Kellyman. Search her on IMDB and you’ll probably recognise the other AAA projects she is in where she is given the same kind of character, like the hand solo movie and the winter soldier TV show).
As with a lot of slop though, the visuals are great and there’s enough to make it at least watchable. It just really is the worst kind of of woke. The subversive woke.
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