Plot Holes, Plot Holes, Plot Holes...

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2007)

Ughhh I was very disappointed with this film. I'm a huge 28 Days Later fan but this was just a horrible sequel. I'll give it a few positive points for some amazing cinematography (the night vision scope shot) and the opening sequence was one of my favorite scenes from the whole series, but overall, it was very disappointing.
The plot holes! Oh my gosh it was horrible. I mean seriously I couldn't believe some of the holes in the film.
**SPOILERS** Like I said before, the beginning was awesome. Everything was great up until Andy had the dream about his mom tearing her face off. What was that? What purpose did that serve except to show that he missed his mom? If it was to justify them leaving to visit home the next day, it didn't.
Next problem is when Andy and his sister Tammy go off into restricted areas to go back to their house. I'm sorry but I just can't suspend my disbelief that far. Security would be far more heavier than what was shown and two kids that know the destruction that the virus caused would be smart enough to stay in the safe zone. I mean they ride a moped all throughout London? Someone would have seen them before they reached their house. Didn't 28 Days Later make it very clear that its imperative to stay as far away from the virus as possible? Plus, the kids just found out that Mom was killed from the virus. I don't think the first thing they're going to do the next morning is leave the safe zone to visit their old house in a contaminated area.
Another hole: Once the virus starts to spread again, the military locks the civilians in an enclosed area. When Don (the infected father) finds the area, he breaks through the door in a matter of seconds. If that area was truly the shelter where they kept civilians in a situation where the virus broke out, I'm sure they would take every precaution necessary to keep the infected out and make it extremely safe. They would not leave a door unattended that could be opened that easily. As a matter of fact, they wouldn't even have a door like that as an entry to the area.
I could go on and on about the problems with this film but I have one last gripe...
Danny Boyle should have directed this. I know he was producer, but it didn't feel anything like his films. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo totally went astray from the original 28 Days Later concept. The first film was about hope and human integrity. It challenged the issue of human life and made us ask ourselves what we would do in the situation of a fatal epidemic. It wasn't a typical gore-fest horror movie. 28 Weeks Later wasn't a gore-fest, but it definitely took into consideration the current horror movie genre qualities. There were many more unnecessary shots of "zombie" killings which the audience didn't really need to see. After all, most of us have seen 28 Days Later. We already know what it looks like when the infected attack someone. They used so many gory shots of people being attacked that the effect began to wear off. In 28 Days later, someone wasn't bit into every 5 minutes. It was suspenseful and deaths/attacks were more meaningful when they occurred.
It made me disconnect the two films from each other. 28 Weeks Later was just a big-budget action movie in the end.