Not awful, but lacked in story development.... (Contains SPOILERS)

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2007)

I don't know - it's just that the first one was so ... GOOD!! I was not entirely disappointed by the second installment (and I guarantee there will be a 28 MONTHS LATER, or a 28 DAYS AFTER THE FIRST 28 WEEKS LATER - or something like that) but I feel that there were certain cop-outs in story progression and also a certain number of non-engaging scenes that made me rate this one a 6/10.
First the obvious difference between DAYS and WEEKS: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is apparently no Danny Boyle. It seems that in comparing the two end products, Boyle had a more complete artistic vision than Fresnadillo. I did not feel as much of a sense of dread or foreboding in WEEKS whereas I remember becoming fairly tense during much of DAYS. I must admit however, that the realization that all 15,000 re-inhabitants (infected or not) were to be mowed down by the military was pretty distressing.
Something in the atmosphere was lacking however. Maybe it's that the outbreak was so contained in this movie while so little was known about the state of the world in the first installment. Unfortunately there is little exciting camera work done in WEEKS - no particularly well-realized shots that stand out in my mind.
Was anyone else bothered by the constant reappearance of the "Bigby"/Father character after he became one of the Infected? I couldn't help but feel that the writers, Rowan Joffe and Fresnadillo, contaminated the purity of the Infected by making this particular one seem to have the human qualities of remembrance, cunning, and a singular intelligence. This was WAY too reminiscent of the African-American ?Janitor? Zombie in Romero's (THE KING!) LAND OF THE DEAD - which was also disappointing in its own way.
People looking for gore.....you will find it here, but it won't be as shocking as the gore in DAYS. There are even two - yes, TWO - eye gouging scenes, but neither of them holds an LED to the climactic eye-gouging in DAYS. The gore is fairly tame in WEEKS, with little attention being paid or effort being made to add much realism to it. However, I definitely found myself saying quietly out loud, "cool." - when the "Bigby"/Father guy becomes infected through the kiss (Now, that was freaking brilliant!) and savagely turns on his helpless wife, and, "awesome *snort*, YES! *chuckle*." during the chopper turned lawnmower scene. There is a fair amount of gore - but it is somehow unsatisfying.
The most annoying thing about WEEKS is that the beginning is so great yet the end is so blah and poorly edited?/executed?/planned? After sifting through the choppy last few minutes I was perplexed. Why the hell did it end so abruptly, with basically no story being given to us at the end? And why was so much time wasted on the whole infected father/son/daughter scenes when more could have been done with the ending after the escape? Did they get killed? Well, it didn't appear as if the chopper was wrecked and we weren't shown any blood inside of it. Maybe they ran out of fuel and landed and then continued on foot? I mean, why give us so little at the end.
But I guess this one was all about the bucks and setting the stage for part 3, which will hopefully be the greatest and LAST episode.