28 Weeks Later? How about. Never.

Rating: 4/10 (11 May 2007)

I went into this film expecting something very different to what I watched. That is to say, I expected to go in and watch a good film. 28 Weeks Later was anything but. It was a technical sham, and no matter how much people insist they enjoy it, the fundamental and rather dreadful film-making techniques showcased shouldn't be ignored. Loose focus on most close-ups, horrible fast paced and quite frankly 'crap' editing squeezed any life out of what could have been very well paced scenes. The script had more plot-holes and narrative errors than a Bush speech, quite why the one women who could possibly give an antidote was left unguarded for Mr 'janitor' to easily walk into her confined area is beyond me. Red Dwarf had better continuity and stronger writing. Quite why Robert Carlyle's character knowing that his wife had the deadly virus (the reveal eye shot) then decided to kiss her is again.. beyond me.
Needless to say, the dumb and the shameful will find this movie great in its areas of the genre, yet I feel after such a strong idea from the original film, this script, this sequel, was kicked to crap and any decency that remained in the original story has been destroyed by terrible. Terrible CG helicopters. I know young 17 year old at online film-fan sites that can digitally compose helicopters better than 28 Weeks... point made.
I bored my skull through it all, hoping that mixed around the moments of fantastic work and actually good acting there would be a good light at the end tunnel, alas it all seemed to go up in flames rather like one of the characters.
This film was badly made and delivered. Don't be fooled by the masses. It could have been so much more.
And director of this film, you dick. A tripod would have helped in MOST shots. I don't want to feel sick whilst actually trying to follow a one-shot conversation.