I'm usually not much of a zombie fan However

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2007)

This film rocks! Amazing Mercutio style slayings. The whole thing was a wash with oodles of the staple zombie gore, but shot in a very slick and I thought quite original style which I felt made this film a sequel worthy if it's predecessor.
There was clearly more budget for this one and they knew just how to use it, turning London into a war zone with an almost too tangible realism. Enough to send shivers down one's spine. Which is what for me helps make this film really sing out as a great example of the genre, a film one can identify with it so much more. It's not impossible to imagine London decimated by a fast moving virus (look at aids in Africa), though it is for me harder to imagine that the Americans could actually get anything 'controlled' with in six months. So I did find the first half of the film to be a bit too pro-American, muscle flexing propaganda. However it was interesting to watch events unfold.
Though I felt I was always a step ahead of the narrative this did not distract from the power of the characterisation and the empathy one feels for the characters as you watch the world fall apart around them.
The one powerful lesson I think chaps everywhere can take from this is that they must be very careful when and where they abandon their wives. Remember gents love spelt backwards is EVOL!