28 Weeks Later

Rating: 7/10 (1 October 2007)

The first film from director Danny Boyle was a fantastic British horror, this sequel from new director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is just as much the same quality. The film begins first with a reminder of what the film deals with, where a family, including Donald 'Don' (Robert Carlyle) and Alice Harris (Braveheart's Catherine McCormack) are invaded by many innocents infected with the Rage virus, and have now become those fast, flesh-eating killing machines. The film then continues to the history of the infection, till eventually it reaches 28 weeks later, where the American military have secured a safe, rebuilt environment in London for the uninfected people to return to. Don, with with his son Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) and daughter Tammy Harris (Imogen Poots) are among them, and it is when the kids go beyond the secure zone into the now empty and cut-off areas of London that they come across their Mum, Alice! Somehow she (and later Andy) was born with a special gift where she cannot get infected, and proof is visible in her one red eye, but what Don didn't realise when she kissed her was that she could infect others, so he is obviously the one to first start the Rage, and reinfect it back into others, and it spreads rapidly. The American army have now initiated Code Red, but they give up shooting one at a time, and they now have orders to kill all. The two army members not obeying are Sgt. Doyle (Jeremy Renner) and maybe his friend in the helicopter, Flynn (Lost's Harold Perrineau). They manage to escape the big fire dropped into the city, and they run as fast as they can to the rendezvous point, but there is almost nowhere they can go without an infected there. Also starring Rose Byrne as Maj. Scarlet, Idris Elba as Gen. Stone, Emily Beecham as Karen and Meghan Popiel as DLR Soldier. The action is the same, fast-paced, the acting is very convincing, the camera work is effective (like a documentary style), and it is just a fantastic sequel. Very good!