A dreadful and utterly stupid bore fest

Rating: 3/10 (12 March 2008)

I liked '28 Days Later'. It has nice cinematography, a cool premise, some nice twists, and chilling action. The "sequel", "28 Weeks Later", more or less has the same nice cinematography. And. that. is. about. it.
Yes, there are some very nice shots of abandoned London in this movie. Actually, there are a lot of very nice shots. Actually, there are so many shots and they take so long that is gets awfully boring very fast. And to make up for those nice long shots, the other half of the movie (the "action") is shot so fast and so messily that it's impossible to make out what is happening. The footage here is so frantic and so low-quality that it's an assault on the senses.
The movie doesn't have an awful lot of other redeeming features either. First, there's the very weak plot. Just about everything that happens in this movie has 'plot device' written all over it. The movie obviously aims for realism but the decisions that characters make and the way the plot turns out is utterly stupid. Kids easily sneaking out of a military zone? Check! Military wanting to kill their possibly only hope of a cure? Check! Military then leaving that cure undefended? Check! Zombies instantaneously overrunning super-prepared compound? check! Military immediately gunning down people they went to great lengths of trouble to protect? The list goes on and on, and none of it makes any kind of sense, it's all just an excuse to go on to the next scene in which some zombies supposedly infect or kill some more people; what they do exactly is impossible to make out due to the aforementioned horrible editing.
Also, this movie left me utterly cold. They few characters there are in the movie are not developed at all, they hardly say a thing. They all act horribly stupid and mostly bring about their own doom, so it's pretty hard to really feel for them.
If you're prepared to waste 90 minutes, one half on pointless shots of an empty England, and the other half on non-existing characters, an utterly stupid plot, and action that is impossible to make out, you have just found yourself a great movie. Everybody else please stay clear.