His parents have been infected and, along with several others, they manage to break into the house before too long. Soon, however, another refugee arrives, a small boy pounding on their door for help. They’ve managed to survive thus far, but they worry about their children, Andy and Tammy, who were away on a school trip to Spain just before the outbreak. The film starts off in the midst of the initial outbreak, with parents Don and Alice Harris holding up with two fellow refugees and an elderly couple in a small cottage. (Due to the essay-like nature of this review, please know that SPOILERS are necessary for my examination, and, thus, do lie ahead!) But while 28 Days Later told the story of a group of individuals coming together to form what could effectively be called a family, 28 Weeks Later intriguingly stands as a counterpoint to that narrative, weaving into its plot a story about a family torn apart by deceit and violence, and the two children who find themselves caught up in a system that, though well intentioned, may not be able to save them from a horrible fate. New director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo remains faithful to the tone of the first film yet focuses on entirely new characters and new ideas in a story that nonetheless continues where the last film left off. In this one, the American military flies in and actually screws everything up and the UN military has to swoop in and save the day.Directed by: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Produced by: Enrique López-Lavigne, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich Bernard Bellew (co-producer) Danny Boyle, Alex Garland (executive producers) Written by: Rowan Joffe, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Enrique López Lavigne, Jesús Olmo Cinematography by: Enrique Chediak Music by: John Murphy Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, Mackintosh Muggleton, Idris Elba Year: 2007Ģ8 Weeks Later lacks the originality, rawness, and, frankly, the mystique of Danny Boyle’s first film, but it’s a sequel that figures out a perfect way to have the rage virus return and deliver even more terrifying thrills. ![]() The one interesting thing I'd like to point out is that it went a different direction with the common American military saving the day story line. Overall 28 Weeks has a more Hollywood feel which was disappointing. The atmosphere and style that made 28 Days so great was absent from this sequel. I enjoyed it for the whole rage virus thing, but that was about it. I understand that balls need to be dropped in order to allow a plot to play out, but this movie just pushed it to a whole other level. I watched it with the family and we were all basically shouting and the screen the whole time. What 28 Weeks also delivered, however, is rageful frustration. Oh, so there’s this guy with security clearance who goes in, gets infected, runs out of the unguarded room, infects others, who infect others, who infect others.Ģ8 Weeks delivers what fans wanted from the sequel, more rageful zombies and a valiant attempt to escape them. ![]() But they locked the door to anyone without security clearance, so no worries there! They inevitably stumble on someone still infected who is later taken back into the safe zone and left unguarded. Oh, well there were these two kids who easily snuck out to wander the city alone. ![]() The rest of England was still littered with rotting bodies and infection, but they put up signs telling people not the leave the safe zone, so no worries there! Why only one specific district? Well, because it was the only district that was cleared of dead bodies, sanitized and deemed safe to inhabit. Several months after the original rage virus wiped out England, joint military starts letting people back into one specific district of London.
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