oh dear, not again

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2007)

forget anything that happened in the original film because it won't be relevant to this one.
Robert Carlisle is rubbish in this. But he's not to blame for the awful script and filming.
this film suffers from all the problems the original did.
far too much filming in the dark or in low light where you can't see anything happening.
far too many fast cuts from shot to shot.
the fact that we're dropped into an attack right at the start and then shown the progress of the disease dying out in Britain, people being introduced back by American forces.
1st goof is the plane that lands at London Airport but disembarks at Heathrow, miles away.
Bob Carlise's kids are brought back to live with him and they stupidly decide to go to their old house to find a picture of their mother despite the fact they have been warned how dangerous this is.
I was surprised they weren't shot and killed as they were detected on the bridge (oh, and the person who thought that tourist boat was a goof? It could have quite easily been a NATO Patrol Boat).
Ignore the fact that their mother survived the attack at the cottage AND made it back to their own home in London.
It's obvious someone's going to get infected when we find out the wife is a carrier (her room wasn't constantly guarded from the outside, I think thats a pretty huge goof right there) and poor old Bob is that person.
One of the best goofs is the radio message authorising the use of Non-Lethal Force. So they can't kill anyone there then.
I'm sure he got blood on his sons face in the underground car park and the son definitely did get blood on him from another infected when they were all getting shot.
I still can't work out exactly how the son escaped that either. The fact that he "manages" to find his sister and the friendly Doctor in all that confusion was a bit too much to believe.
Most of this film is too dark to actually see what's going on, adding to the confusion of what little awful plot is still left. Especially the sequences where they run from the sniper whilst trying to meet the chopper in Regents Park.
The fact that the area gets bombed and then there's the really pointless and stupid radio message authorising the use of Chemical weapons really kicks hard at the American Military and their love of overkill.
The chopper pilot saying he's going to be with them in 60 seconds, well, i'm sorry but that's utter tripe as they'd already be able to hear him coming towards them.
A huge point is don't the infected ever get tired? Or are unaffected by lactic acid build-up in the muscles that occurs when you run? Not even world class sprinters can run that fast for extended periods. They'd get tired, get muscle fatigue.
I'm not exactly sure what the white smoke was supposed to be but they wouldn't have been much safer inside that car they took shelter in as it wouldn't be airtight. Possibly it was some sort of chemical agent as they had authorised the use of chemical weapons earlier on in the movie.
The delta force guy saying he'll meet them at the stadium. Er, which stadium? Did we miss a whole scene or something? he'd asked for an extract but never did anyone say where that next extract actually was.
It was pretty laughable that they expected us to believe a Volvo estate could outrun a military helicopter shooting at it. And then annoying us even more by going into the underground to have yet another excuse to film somewhere dark and meaning we can't watch the film again.
I don't understand why the woman with the night-sight wasn't leading the way (which would have been the most sensible thing) instead of trying to guide the 2 kids.
Once the infected guy attacked them after they had fallen over in the dark and lost each other they may as well have ended the film right there because he was going to have killed all 3 of them anyway.
It was too hard to believe the boy would have managed to wander off so far away from the girl and the Doctor (he didn't hear them shouting his name, he didn't hear the doctor screaming as she was being attacked, he didn't think to start shouting their names the second he lost contact with them both?).
To suddenly show infected Bob Carlise still alive (unlikely, he'd have been killed in the bombing) and then equally as suddenly introduce a gun to kill him (if the doctor had a gun why didn't SHE use it to defend herself a few scenes earlier?) made the film really really stupid.
By this time, anyone with even 1 braincell wouldn't be willing to suspend belief any further. You now have to wonder if the people who made this actually set out to insult the viewers intelligence on purpose.
When he asks "am I one of them" she blatantly lies to him and even as a 12 year old he's got to know she's lying and he's infected.
Another good goof is them getting Wembley Stadium wrong, and using the new one and not trying to digitally insert the old stadium. Clearly the pilot saw the blood on both the kids but took them anyway (I think he'd have shot them).
The predictable ending of them infecting France and leaving it opening for another sequel shows how pointless this whole film was.
Best Avoided like the plague.