Another sequel that makes you say "Why?"

Rating: 4/10 (24 March 2008)

i enjoyed quite a lot the 1st movie, "28 Days After". It was a good "zombie film" - a lot better that "I Am Legend", for instance, not to mention that it was made much earlier and with a smaller budget.
Unfortunately, the sequel, "28 Weeks Later" was very disappointing.
They turned a movie that focused on the psychological aspects of being a fugitive in a world over-run with demented zombies (a thriller, in fact), into something like "Rambo meets the living dead". Masses of corpses, zounds of zombies, big machine guns, choppers and flame-throwers etc. etc.
Also, the story doesn't make sense many times. For instance, in both movies, the zombies weren't smart enough to go round a big hole in the ground - their mindless hordes would fall into a pit like sheep. Yet, all of the sudden, one of them is smart enough to use magnetic access cards, and over-rides computerized security settings!!! Wow.. ;)
Quite frankly, a waste of time..