Great atmospheric but with a few small inconsistencies - deserves a sequel

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2007)

At least as good as the first film this tells the story 28 weeks later and has the Americans helping the surviving Brits rebuild society starting with a protected zone inside of London.
There are a few plot points that you need to accept as happening, even though they make little common sense - like how the dad survives firebombing, how he always manages to be on the kids trail, why some victims (some soldiers for example) just seem to die whereas most become killing machines and the ending (which I won't give away) while a neat ending fits into that category a little as well.
But it feels like the original and while bits of it require switching your common sense off for it is a good fun horror film and the "zombies" (or should I say "the infected") are very well done - fast, vicious and intelligent. Indeed the infected are what take this film up a notch because this isn't just another zombie type film, the infected are "zombies" the way they should be to scare you - they move extremely fast, they're not thick and they never hesitate to kill.
The camera work is eerie as expected, it still amazes me how they get London looking so empty and lifeless and I liked how they didn't fully follow Hollywood convention and made it so you couldn't be sure which characters would or would not survive.
It didn't really make me jump, my wife was having kittens watching this though as for her it was very scary. It's a worthy sequel and good enough that I'd like to see another instalment, maybe they could make this a trilogy? Overall they have managed to do what so many sequels fail to do, they have kept the look and feel of the original while improving on it and that is a rare feat.