I've mulled over writing this for a week now, trying to put my love for it into words.

Let's start out with this.

I am a Geordie.

And I cried. A lot.

I don't quite know what my expectations were of this. But not the movie we got.

I had factored in a weird cult. An evil leader in Ralph Fiennes. And the infection spread globally.

Instead?

Wow. A striking adventure of two halves. Both equally effective and affecting, in…