Decent Movie

Rating: 6/10 (12 May 2007)

I never expected much from this movie because it always looked to me like an unnecessary sequel to a great movie. However, I held out with a little hope and saw it today. And, I was disappointed, yet not surprised.
While the movie is enjoyable on a very primitive level, it doesn't strike as many intellectual or emotional chords as the first one. Weeks focuses almost entirely on chase sequences. The movie begins fairly well, with a group of people together. Then, the infected attack and we are introduced to the annoying shaky camera technique used throughout the movie. While a "shaky" camera can work well with chaos on screen, it becomes a bit much in this movie. It just seems to unnecessarily confuse things sometimes. Either way, when these infected show up, the movie becomes about running, and running... and running. It rarely takes a brake to breath so we are never allowed a chance to know any of the characters. That is where this film becomes a typical horror movies. The characters are not here to be understood, they are only here to be chased by the bad guys. There are a few moments when the movie rises above this, which places the film a small step above mindless entertainment but not enough for me to recommend it to many people besides horror buffs.
Overall, this is a decent movie. I wouldn't call it a waist of time, especially if you are a fan of the zombie genre and are looking for your latest fix (if you are offended by my reference to this film as being in the zombie genre, replace zombie genre with "post apocalyptic world overrun by mindless carnivorous beings genre")