Better than most zombie flicks... but not Dawn of the Dead.

Rating: 7/10 (27 July 2007)

The movie begins with a small group of people just trying to survive in a cabin someplace in the U.K.,. Presumably just after the events of the first movie, Zombie's have already destroyed the local communities and British society as we know it, and we're introduced to some seriously stressed out yet hopeful people.
They all die save a single person... who consequently abandon's his wife to save his own hide in the process. It was suspenseful, tragic, and a good way to open.
Some time later (28 weeks) our "hero" (that so selflessly jumped ship and allowed his wife to be the main course for numerous evil creatures) is reunited with his children in London. The united states has moved in, set up a base of operations, and has established a functioning mini city inside the confines of Dog Island (someplace in London, never been there myself.)
They have water, electricity, and a sniper for every roof watching through "your" windows at night. It's a marshal law state... but it's a better solution than anything previously provided given the circumstances.
I liked that... It offered more presence than the low budget "28 days later" ever did.
Of course our "hero's" children turn out to be idiots... and after learning of a censored version of mom's fate through they're father, they feel the need to escape the compound and attempt to reclaim pictures of they're late mother from they're since abandoned home (presumably within the London city limits.)
The whole time, your watching this... shaking your head, knowing full well this doesn't turn out with a happy ending. It just can't.
They're escape doesn't go unnoticed though, so after allowing our viewers to tense up waiting for that "moment" when everything goes bad, our military friends manage to capture them at they're old house... and one more guest as well.
They're mother. But wait... how can that be?
Infected with the virus, yet somehow not hostile (save the madness from trauma of course), the army brings mom back to the compound of Dog Island and begins to give her the disinfecting you'd expect in any virus infected world.
The children know they're mother not to be dead now, Dad is declared a liar because his story suddenly doesn't add up, and mom is strapped to a chair with the sole desire to see her children as Dr's draw blood and run tests.
Good Drama... Also the perfect catalyst to send this movie into overdrive.
Of course, our "Hero" learns of his living wife and quickly goes to see her. Consumed in guilt and the need to be forgiven for his manly man courage 28 weeks prior, she manages an I love you, and our "Hero" moves in for that passionate kiss which consequently infects him with the virus only seconds later.
Perfect... Get's what he deserved.
Dad goes nuts, kills his strapped up wife, and then continues infecting the entire compound as he goes on the rampage that I like to call "The BBQ of Dog Island."
My favorite part about this, is the military decides to lock up "the entire" population in a basement of a large building, which ultimately make for a great slaughter house when "only one" zombie (coincidently turning out to be our so called "hero") gets inside the room and starts turning people one by one. Which in turn, infect more people, One... by... One... by... hundreds...
Very cool.
From there... It's a series of moral dilemmas as snipers have to figure out who's undead and who's struggling for dear life... and begin popping people once they finally bust out of the basement and make a mad dash to safety.
Eventually the problem is identified as the unavoidable equivalent of a crap load of collateral damage... and the order to kill anything moving comes down.
Mwahaha..!!! Very nice!
The movie then follows the two children of our "hero" through a series of escapes (with the aid of a military officer, a civilian, and a scientist/Dr.)
After the city is effectively bombed with napalm... the only really cool scene after that is a helicopter being used as a zombie blender. Another scene worth noting was our military officer getting torched by his own boys in an attempt to push start a car out of a flood of nerve gas.
Nice...
The kids make they're way to a previously established ride (through they're "dead" Military guide of crushed London,) and eventually are eventually forced to come face to face with our undead "hero" just before the son is infected "by" our "hero" (yet like his mother, doesn't turn.)
The sister witnesses her brother getting infected by good old dad, and puts a few bullets through his head... ending our "hero's" rampant slaughter of Dog Island.
That was pretty gay actually... like Dad was just gonna find them way the heck out there after everything that's happened since.
Yeah... what ever.
The movie ends with the children being helicoptered out of London and presumably to safety. Bringing death with them of course... It leaves a sequel wide open in case a producer out there gets funding for another one of these short yet mildly entertaining movies.
Better than the first... nothing in the shadow of the recent "Dawn of the dead" though...