America was barely at war when the original movie made bad guys out of the military, but the sequel’s veiled parallels to the situation in Iraq seem like a poorly timed indictment of men “just following orders” in order to show America’s excessive use of force to deal with situations beyond their control. The only truly shocking moment comes at the height of the chaos when the soldiers start firing on the crowd with the orders to kill everyone. Likewise, a later scene in which they walk through the darkened London Underground using the infrared scope from a sniper’s rifle was done far more effectively in last year’s “Descent.” Most of the time, things are happening so fast in such dark places that it’s hard to figure out what’s going on.
Gore fiends will probably be impressed by one or two “splatterrific” set pieces, even if the most impressive one involving a helicopter isn’t particularly original. In a way, “28 Weeks Later” is more of a horror movie in the way it uses typical clichés of the survivors being chased through the city, grimly killed off one by one in a way that has very little impact on the viewer or their fellow survivors. Most of the performances are fine, but we don’t spend enough time with any of them to establish any strong emotional link, and the lack of focus makes it hard to determine whether the protagonist is supposed to be Don, his kids, Jeremy Renner’s Sgt. The new characters, essentially a bunch of soldiers and a couple kids, aren’t nearly as interesting as the odd group that assembled in the first movie. London once again makes the perfect backdrop for chaos as we see plenty of gorgeous tracking shots over the city roofs and empty streets. While the original movie was effectively disturbing in the way it showed how England is leveled by a deadly outbreak, that premise and the location is the only thing retained for the sequel. A scientist named Scarlet (Rose Byrne) realizes that Andy and Tammy may have the same immune blood as their mother, so she and a renegade soldier (Jeremy Renner) tries to save them, racing through the streets that pose dangers both from the infected and the overzealous soldiers there to prevent another outbreak. By then, it’s already 45 minutes into the movie and we’re as bored as the soldiers, but as the military loses control amidst the ensuing chaos, the situation is elevated to “Code Red” which essentially means killing every single person on the streets whether infected or not. Because she’s still a carrier of the disease, it doesn’t take long for the Rage virus to start infecting people again (with a surprising twist we won’t reveal). Shockingly, Alice has somehow survived being attacked by the infected, because something in her blood makes her immune to the effects. Don is soon reunited with his kids Andy and Tammy, who were out of the country during the outbreak, though he doesn’t tell them about his cowardly part in their mother’s death. 28 weeks later, Don is living in London’s District 1, an island safe zone that has been cleaned-up ready to renew life in the city as bored American soldiers are stationed on rooftops with sniper rifles just in case things go wrong again. Robert Carlyle’s Don only barely manages to escape, deserting his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) to the infected in a cowardly move that will haunt him later. The film opens with a group of survivors holed up in a country cottage that’s promptly attacked by a crazed mob of the infected. In “28 Weeks Later,” Fresnadillo offers an interesting scenario that continues where the last movie left off, focusing on a different set of characters caught in the mayhem that once was Jolly Ol’ England. “28 Days Later” director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland personally selected Spanish filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (“Intacto)” to take up the baton for the sequel to their 2003 post-apocalyptic thriller with the presumption that a sequel would be a no-brainer. “28 Weeks Later” is rated R for strong violence and gore, language and some sexuality/nudity.Īs difficult as it must be to create a satisfying sequel, it must be even tougher when a movie is so far ahead of its time and genre, and you’re trying to make a sequel without the creative team and cast that made it so special. With riveting DVD extras and intense footage not seen in theaters, ’28 Weeks Later’ ratchets up the thrills.” But one of the returning refugees carries a terrible secret that threatens to reignite the deadly explosion of bloodlust, carnage and chaos. Army steps in to help repatriate Mainland Britain. With order restored and the war against the infection won, the U.S. The terror and devastation unleashed in ’28 Days Later’ picks up six months after the Rage virus has decimated London in this heart-stopping horror sequel. “When days turns to weeks… the horror returns.
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