Great Sequel, as good as original

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2008)

This movie was not really a direct sequel of the first in any aspect except it takes place after the evens of the first movie. However, there are no characters from 28 Days Later in this movie, and there seems to be no mention of them either. This movie also has a different plot. In 28 Days Later, the plot was basically survival; run from the infected and find a safe place to hide. Here, it's been 28 weeks since the events of the first movie occurred, and people are now being allowed to move back to London under military supervision in order to start over again. ALso after the epidemic begins, we see a new style of survival techniques that were not in 28 Days Later. The main characters here are 2 kids whose parents were left behind during the evacuation of the country in the first film; Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) come back and find their dad, Don (Robert Carlyle) alive after he abandoned his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack). We also get to meet a few soldiers here, Sgt. Doyle (Jeremy Renner), Major Scarlet (Rose Byrne), and Doyle's friend, a helicopter pilot named Flynn (Harold Perrineau). The cast is very good here, the effects are excellent and the story was very unique. This movie ties with the first on my list, fans of 28 Days Later should see this movie; 9/10.