I haven’t seen this film in ages, but I remember being pretty blown away by it on its release. I don’t know what it was exactly, but it was incredibly gripping and felt grounded in realism. The post-outbreak sequence of an empty London is stark and uncomfortably quiet, and the finale in a military station is chilling and presents a all-too-real future for women to be raped and abused in times of war.
Cillian Murphy was good in this, but Naomie Harris was the absolute star of this film. I loved her no-bullshit survivor attitude as Selena, and how she felt like a real person and not a horror “Final Girl” archetype, especially whenever she got frustrated with someone or was distrustful or cried out of exhaustion. I know she’s done a lot since then, but this is always the role I’ll associate her with.
I knew of Christopher Eccleston a little bit from Elizabeth and Jude, and found him cold and frightening in his military role in essentially wanting to rape the two available females to re-populate society after the infection outbreak. When he got more popular a few years later with Doctor Who, I really found it hard to accept him as the cheerful, optimistic Doctor because I still had the mental image of him as an ice-cold villain, so it took a while for me to warm up to him, pun intended.
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