This was awesome! One of those rare sequels that is actually as good (maybe even better) than the original. Everything in this movie is totally sincere. The acting is realistic, the situations are presented in a way that keeps them from getting too far-fetched, and the gore is frighteningly realistic. This delivers real chills and thrills - I just wish all zombie movies could be made like this.
A more straight forward sequel to 28 days later. It's powerful scenes and visual image with excellent acting makes this almost as good as its predecessor. Can't wait for 28 months later...
Those smug American bastards. They think they can come along and make a sequel to one of our best recent horror movies? This shouldn't have worked, but it does and in style. It takes the premise slightly further without ever going over the top and fully "Americanising" it. There are still plenty of scares, a sackful of tension and more blood and guts than a butchers bargain bin. A worthy sequel.
A true masterpiece beyond what the first installment did. This is one of the few films that actually had me jumping because the tension was overwhelming. There is a huge twist at the end that I probably shouldn't spoil, but what the hell. At the end, when everyone gets away via helicopter, there are obviously still tons of infected people still roaming. Well all of these infected people, who are running through a sort of sewage tunnel come out of the other side. The twist is that in plain view is the Eiffel Tower. This opens the door for a great sequel, if they do it right. The infection has now spread out of the quarantined island of England and is now in France. DUN DUN DUN DUN!!! Can't wait to see if they make a sequel to this one.
Great Sequel, Fantastic film but story wise and character attachment makes it less that on the level of the original 28 days later.
6 months on a the Rage virus is finally dying out, refuges are being scooped up across Britain and deposited into a heavily guarded safe zone in east London (Isle of dogs), manned by the Hollywood saviors the US army of course. With beefed up marines, rooftop snipers with big gun and bigger egos everyone is bound to be completely safe and protected even if "ragers" are still lurking. Rebuilding civilization on reuniting families is firmly on the cards and life can return to normal right???
Well wrong actually, see one family reunited is that of Rod (Robert Carlyle), Alice (Catherine McCormack), daughter Tammy (Imogen Poots) and young son Adam (Mackintosh Muggleton). Alice has a natural immunity to the virus but she's still a carrier and can infect anyone, Not great news when she gets reintroduced to a penned in collection of healthy, vulnerable, tasty residents of a quarantine. Providing a whole ensuing onslaught of Rage virus outbreaks, blood splattering savagery and lots of running shooting and screaming.
Yes its a classic Zombie movie, following the general pattern, no zombies....zombie......more zombies which rampage.....group of important survivors must escape .........zombies chase them....realize on has potential to cure zombie-itus........zombie kill off a few.....rest try to sacrifice for the special one to live.....fly off to sunset.....set up of next sequel..... credits.
With that said it does provide some spectacture arial shoots of East london and an area i live extremely close to The Isle of Dogs. Its very fun to spot and point out areas you know and frequent on film, ie OMG Robert Carlyle is at the same part of the platform at Canary wharf DLR station as where I also wait on the way back from uni, or wow City airport is bigger than it looks from above.
28 weeks later is different to the original in many ways mostly good. It has a much faster pace, the story is simple and pounds thought without dragging or cramming in too many difficult twists or lots of difficult information. There are aspects that seem highly unlikely but heck like zombies are the everyday norm? How did Zombie Carlyle escape the might USA army with its big guns and fireballs, gas attacks and super snippers?? And all the while manage to be exactly 1 street distance from his kids??
I liked the zombies of these films more what they should embody, vivious, fast wild animals with no compassion, senses, awareness, just a natural drive to kill destroy and feed. The charging fitting like movements only add tot he terror at these RAGE Victims. Its what makes them scary, the cants be tricked, slowly crept around or attention diverted, they cant be outwitted or out run and you are unlikely to wrangle out of an attack.
Excellent performances all round from Carlyle (even though a much shorter acting role than anticipated), Jeremy Renner as a US sniper turned child savior, and Rose Byrne as a US Medic Helping to save the kid's too. Both Imogen Poots and Mackintosh Muggleton are fantastic young actors/actresses and bring a vulnerability to the film.
Better than most sequels, but watch it along with the original will show the subtle difference but great aspects of both films.
Just about as gory as you could want it to be, if that's your thing. Pretty good extension of the story. My main qualm with it was the kids. They were annoying. I'm not sure whether that was intentional, but I'm pretty sure that affected how I felt about the movie. In general though, it was okay.
The first half is quite fabulous, but then the second half - like Children of Men before it - is a pc-game-as-film-script debacle. First person shooter riddled with improbabilities. First half: 3.5/5, second half: 2.5/5
i thought it was pretty similar to 28 days -- fairly average horror fare. the strong points were mood and setting. pretty good acting all around (even from the kid actors, which is usually rare). still, a lot of suspension of disbelief requested from the viewer. in the usual zombie flick, i'm willing to give a bit. but given that this franchise is based on some actual scientific grounding (i.e. the antagonist aren't dead, just infected), certain things just kind of push the limit (like the dad's character as one of the infected, being able to be at the precise locations the family was at all times). but as pure entertainment, the franchise does okay.
Six months after a plague has destroyed the world, a lone city, London, has been turned into a fortress, but the plague ridden people find their way in. Not as good as the first.
This movie was NASTY. I thought it was extremly sad how everyone was effected by the virus and there were only a few surviviors. I though that the ending was sad when that women and the army man was killed and the only ones left in the movie were the kids. And it was sad how their mother and father died from the virus.
Excelente, muito louco o filme, é um filme completamente diferente dos filmes de zumbi convencionais, os zumbis são diferentes, não são aqueles mortos vivos que andam devagar e comem carne feito uns loucos, uma atuação muito boa do elenco, muito bem escalado. Trilha sonara muito boa grandes cenas de ação, e perseguição.É um filme sem muita espectativa; que no entanto surpreende bastante.
Heavy handed, poorly done, and enough with the damn eye-gouging already. The only people who wheren't too stupid to live where the kids. THEY deserved to die for starting the whole mess.
Was ok. Just can't compare to the first. Given it is hard to follow up a really good gritty movie with a good sequel they did an ok job... was far to easy to anticipate outcomes and I thought the plot was a bit weak. Movie wasn't tight enough overall.
28 Weeks Later" picks up six months after the rage virus has annihilated the mainland Britain. The US army declares that the war against the infection has been won, and that the reconstruction
Terrible sequel to a terrible movie that is not about zombies, it's not about zombies! There are no zombies in this movie nor are there any zombies in the first film, just people infected by rage which has nothing to do with zombies. Terrible movie.
Mixed with my Bio-chemical warfare/ Ultra-Rabies theory paranoia, and my insane fear of Zombies.... This movie scared the holy shit out of me. Its the most realistic thing I could imagine. 2 thumbs up!! I couldn't sleep right for months after the 1st time I watched this!!
MCT:July 25, 2008
MCT:July 23, 2008
MCT:July 22, 2008
MCT:July 20, 2008
MCT:July 19, 2008
MCT:July 18, 2008
MCT:July 10, 2008
MCT:June 30, 2008
MCT:June 28, 2008
