This is the way a sequel must be filmed...

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2007)

The first ''28 days later'', was a surprise for the horror-genre fans, (especially the zombie-fans) in the 2002, directed by Danny Boyle (Transpoitting) and introducing Cillian Murphy to the commercial cinema. The movie presented the Rage Virus, an experiment capable of infect a human being in few secs, turning the host into an aggressive and blood vomiting individual that went out of the hands of the British Government and cause the extermination of all its population.
The contagion risks where highest than in other Zombie/films, especially in the George A. Romero ones:
1.- Even the minimum drop of blood, or even a scratch could cause an infection; and:
2.- As a plus to all this films, this creatures had the capability of run as fast as you can. And it is also worth of writing that the score: ''In the House, in a heartbeat'' by John Murphy, give the movie an special pace at the ending.
Considered by many a cult classic, now, 4 years later, it comes a sequel to the original, directed by the Prodigious Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, and staring Robert Carlyle (who declined a role for the first one) this movie knows how to keep the same rules of the infection, and does it with unexpected drama and lots of tension.
Early in the movie, just with the opening sequence you know that Fresnadillo it's everything but a dumb director, unlike P.W. Anderson, or Alexander Witt, he knows how to make a simple action sequence into a suffocating, nerves of steel one.
Also, John Murphy's ''In the House, in a Heartbeat'' is back, and is better than ever, with 3 inclusions through the feature.
With the help of the fast editing and the handy cam,(elements that fuel this sequel with images of cruelty and realism) it's delivered to us a movie that, if it fails in deliver something, is in a optimistic point of view of the humanity, where our relations decay and our children are the ones who inherit the violence and fear of our age.
The plot, if you don't know it yet, is the re-population of London after 28 weeks later the first movie, and it focus in the life of Don (Carlyle) and his children, the Harris, whose mother disappeared in the holocaust. But like any horror movies, everything goes bad, as we found out there is still traces of the virus in London. Soon the infection spreads through its new population and now the Harris must find a way out of this mess.
It doesn't surpass the original, but it's nearly as great as the first one, specially in the suspense, it's a high tension horror movie, and i widely recommend it to you.