What a waste of potential

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2011)

Although it's a sequel, I had expected to see something more than hoards of blood-barfing rage victims running after a frightened little band of protagonists, and slaughtering everyone in their path. Didn't we already get that in the first film? Isn't there something else the filmmakers would like to add to this tragic apocalyptic tale? No? Well then why did they bother to make a second film ?!
"28 Weeks Later" lacked in quality plot devices, script, acting, editing, cinematography, originality, and believability. It was overly predictable, mind-numbingly gory, poorly filmed (shakey-cam overdose!) and failed to live up to the cleverness of it's predecessor "28 Days Later".
I failed to emotionally invest in any of the characters as they run and stumble their way through a totally ridiculous and predictable story, and I really didn't care if any of them made it out alive or not. Meh.
Totally predicable. From the very start, you know where they're taking you... and they take you there, one awful scene after another. This movie offered me no surprises whatsoever, other than it's surprisingly horrible script and total failure as entertainment (not something I expected, since I did enjoy "28 Days Later")
The amount of violence and gore in this film is ridiculous. I'm not adverse to gore and slasher movies per se, but I do object to pointless and lengthy sequences of gratuitous slaughter that offer no dramatic, nor artistic effect, and leave me feeling like I'm being attemptedly brainwashed into gore-desensitization by the filmmakers, rather than being entertained and/or emotionally moved by the violent and graphic images on the screen. It wasn't startling, it wasn't terrifying, it wasn't creative, it wasn't even humorous...it was just pointless...
Just like the rest of this film : pointless.