The movie failed... Sorry, hardcore fans.

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2007)

One of the best looking crappy movies I've ever seen. If only effects and masterful technique were enough. It's as if director Fresnadillo decided to forget about the plot and just go rampant with grit and artistry, which works if all we're seeing is an 11 minute film or a static wall-to-wall museum exhibit, but this is supposed to be a 90 minute film for god's sake. While the two children's desire to explore beyond the containment zone is understandable, the lack of perimeter watch-posts was totally illogical. The Army's lackadaisical response to the children going on their fit of wanderlust is thoroughly illogical. Here's the deepest cut: the children's mischief and disobedience directly contributes to the fall of the entire containment zone, AND YET, they're supposed to be the objects of sympathy throughout the film ?!? How does that make sense ?!? Conveniently, the Army doctor (Rose Byrne) couldn't put two and two together or simply overlooks that fact altogether: hello !!! In that respect, it was very difficult to root for and feel any sympathy for those sorry rascals. So now you have an implausible and illogical chain of events and characters you can't possibly sympathize with because they are so inconceivably dense. All the pyrotechnics and hyper-stylized shots won't rescue you from that... Or can they? Well, I guess it depends on who you ask. I, for one, found the plot lapses all too inane and simply unforgivable. "28 Weeks Later" begins magnificently, then rots.