Gripping and menacing

Rating: 9/10 (17 September 2007)

28 weeks later is yet another Hollywood sequel released in 2007. And in this summer's long line of sequence, this one surely has the least following. With low market potential compared to this year's other sequels, the freedom given to the film maker by the studio bosses can be made out after watching the film. The movies restrained act can sometime gets over your skin but overall the movie is a satisfying experience for the fans of the horror zombie genre.
The movie starts as the title literally suggests 28 weeks later after the first attack of the rage virus on the British Isles. The virus has been overcome by humans in some parts of London which have been quarantined for the settlement of the first batch of refugees. The quarantined section is being controlled by the U.S occupied forces. The trouble begins when two of the youngest refuges sneak out of the quarantined area to their old home, where they find there supposedly dead mother alive. The mother, whose blood is infected, has been successfully been immune to the virus. As she is quarantined by the occupied forces, things turn over its head when she infects her husband who is not immune to the virus. This starts another round of rage attack which grips and destroys the secured area. The director shows his class when the two young protagonists struggle to survive, not from the infected but from the human forces itself who themselves turn intensely hostile as a human nature itself. The director successfully puts down his point that at this juncture of human evolution, the humans have become incapable with there survival instincts as they turn upon themselves during times of crisis which is relevant to today's time. The movie does loose on its horror effects as audience struggle to find any sympathy for the lead characters, as the 90 minutes running time give very few moments for character building with its fast pace editing. A 10 minutes plus running time would have been satisfactory.
But overall the movie satisfies with its gore and violence quotient which is at its peak in the final reels. The crisp editing and story satisfies the audience who are struggling to the find any sense in the scripts of this year's many more popular sequels.