Wretchedly, wretchedly bad!

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2007)

This is just a BAD movie on almost all levels, and does for "28 Days Later" (which I loved) what "Aliens" did for "Alien". In other words, it demystifies it, cheapens it, exploits it, and wastes it. While the first film had characters that you cared about (played by damned good actors), this film is immediately and obviously peopled by actors that have "cannon-fodder" (or in this case "infected-fodder") written all over them. The characters are so poorly developed that to call them two-dimensional is to give them the benefit of the doubt. Most of them are simply around to give the plot a half-hearted push and then die.
One of the hallmarks of a bad movie is that supposedly smart people do incredibly stupid things. That tradition is alive and well in this awful film. A high-security area along the lines of the Pentagon or the White House proves as porous as a sponge, and the holes in the film's logic are so big that a helicopter could fly through them. Which brings us to The Helicopter, the only one in the entire military that is flown by one guy, without a copilot or door gunners or anything. This proves important at the end, but I can say no more.
The violence is gratuitous and ineffective. As allegory to Iraq, the movie fails. This film should, and probably will, be studied in film schools as a bad example of a poor script poorly directed. It will also probably make a ton of money.
My last word - YUCK!