Failed where it's Original Succeeded. Suceeded where the Original Failed.

Rating: 6/10 (11 November 2007)

The first 28 movie was a masterpiece of macabre. It had much of what is needed to have a successful horror movie: It's scary, nothing is scarier than walking alone in a dead city. No one to help you, no one to save you, all alone. Now add violent psychotic people who want simply to eat you alive. They are faster than the average zombie and they are really, really not happy to see you. Then we move away from the city and then 28 days later falters. It loses any "scare" factor and simply dumbs itself down. And this is the problem with 28 weeks: 28 weeks later sucks all the scary out of the film and goes with cheap scares and jump out at you horror. It's scary the first time, but after a zombie jumps out yelling "BOO!" for the eleventh time, it start to lose it's effect. So 28 weeks later simply loads the movie with as much cheap action as it can, so you don't feel completely ripped off. The plot is nice enough but it just lacks the SCARY! It's got atmosphere but that quickly makes room for corny dialog as they introduces 3 characters, who all last about 2 minutes into the movie. You don't CARE about any of the people in the film! They just run around screaming "OH NO! WHY ME?!?!" Like chickens with their heads removed! The film has zombies, it has gore, death, blood. But it lacks the totally freaky atmosphere of the first and simply covers the basics, nothing less, nothing more. And I for one am disappointed.