Okay Entertainment But Left A Bad Taste In My Mouth.

Rating: 5/10 (19 June 2009)

I found 28 Weeks Later fairly entertaining but was disturbed by the filmmakers apparent point of view when it comes to survival versus compassion.
One can say that the moral of the movie is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions or that the obvious right thing is sometimes not right at all but it appeared to me while watching this that the audience was supposed to be squarely on the side of the infected children and the highly unprofessional military members that defied orders to save them.
It is my opinion that the mother of the children, when discovered to be a carrier of the virus, should have been terminated immediately and the children should also have been killed before they were allowed to spread the disease to the mainland.
The military members who sacrificed their lives to spirit them away to the European mainland were not heroes. They let their emotions get the better of them and ended up saving two people while showing gross disregard for the lives of millions of others. Their despicable actions were quite shocking and disgusting to me, even more so than the wholesale killing that preceded their escape. I would hope that if any of them had survived would have been tried and executed for treason.
I found it quite amusing that the actor who in one scene scared his friend by jumping out and pretending to try bite him also portrayed Jeffry Dahmer in another film!