![]() enough already! Seriously, this does spoiler a lot of the fun, one can have with the movie. oh and how convenient, that they find them exactly at the time when they themselves have found their mother! Not to mention the unguarded mother back at the military zone, where anybody can walk into, to get infected! It's open (mad) house. Now I'm not a military guy myself, but to portray them in a manner, that not only makes them look stupid -> SPOILERS: they let the kids get out of the military zone just like that. ![]() Apart from the obvious "let's shake the camera to create some tension/horror", which made me more often nauseous than really scared, quite frankly, the real let downs in this movie are the plot holes and the portrayal of the military. But as far as the common sense and the plot holes are to be taken into that account/rating, than a 6/10 is still a good rating in my eyes. There is probably a political statement being made about American occupation but it doesn't really dig that deep.Īs far as the action/suspense goes, a 7/10 would have been more appropriately. The simplicity of the original lends itself to be a great horror. It loses the cleanliness of the original horror. When time is invested in him being the main survivor character, the movie needs to follow his story. I just miss Robert Carlyle as the main character in the second half. I wish the movie stayed with him as he struggles with his inner demons and possibly finds redemption. I do like Don's duplicity and personal demons from his escape. The first one has a simple powerful originality. The kids escape the zone to find their semi-zombified mother at home. Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) are Don's kids who return from Spain after missing the initial outbreak. Doyle (Jeremy Renner) and Flynn (Harold Perrineau) are a couple of the military personnel under the command of General Stone (Idris Elba). Don (Robert Carlyle) narrowly escaped the zombies by abandoning his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) and others. The US Army is occupying London after the zombies have all supposedly died of starvation. It's 28 weeks after the release of the virus and about 6 months after the first movie. The ending was just a cheesy, seen-it-before cliché. As it stands I can only assume that the writers just got tired and said "let's end it here." There was no message or anything deep unless you consider futility to be deep. Finally, the "ending." Once again, if the film makers had shown any sort of deep understanding of the movie then I might overlook this lack of a real ending. The quick editing and fast panning shots seemed to be hiding flaws rather than being a creative choice. Some of it is over the top, and some of it even funny (in a black humor way), but some of it was just cheap. This is probably the best part of the movie, but that's not saying much. It's bad enough to kill off a likable character, but to do it poorly? You fail. However, I don't think these deaths were given any more thought than "how can we f*ck with people the most?" The "night scope" death was also poorly directed. If the rest of the movie were any good then perhaps these deaths would have worked. ![]() However, the cruel and callous manner in which some people died crossed many lines for me. You also expect those deaths to be somewhat spectacular. You never expect many, if any, of the main characters to survive in a zombie/horror movie. The screaming zombies acted better than some of the regulars when they were screaming. After 28 days, 28 months, and another 28 days no one bothered to close the Chunnel?Īnyway, with the plot ruined, the next to go was the acting.On the other hand, no one ever gets infected this way either.Even though zombie blood if contagious, no one ever bothers to wash, or even wipe it off.Super zombie Dad can also find his kids, not once, but twice.Dad becomes the super zombie who can take out squads of trained soldiers (trained to kill zombies, BTW) and who can evade all mass extermination attempts.One of those kids can also escape all zombies, snipers and find his sister, all in a few minutes.Not to be outdone, his two kids can sneak past military check points.There are zero guards between the entrance and the quarantine area.Dad (UK civilian) gets job where his security badge gets him past the highest US military security points.I'm going to list them here so SPOILER WARNING: I can forgive a few plot conveniences but they just started to stack up. None of the "this could happen" realism from the first movie is here. Nothing that made 28 Days Later a really good movie is in this movie. The makers of this movie hate the audience and their own characters. A great premise and setup are ruined by some very poor choices.
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