Adds a few new ways to scare, nice visually and musically, but has no substance

Rating: 5/10 (24 August 2008)

After the enraged from 28 Days Later have died, the OTAN steps in to repopulate London. From the beginning scenes you start to visually get a similar feeling to the first movie, the grays and plain tones that were so appreciated in the first part make a subtle return for the most part of the sequel. Some of the most memorable and original music also remains.
It adds new scares, new situations never before saw in zombie movies, like walking trhu completely dark tunnels infested with enraged (but parallel to the driving trhu the tunnel in 28 Days).
But despite its artistic or technical features the film's story really has no substance, which turns all of the violence and gore not into assets in a good story, but the main focus and only outstanding feature in the film. Thats is what we would usually call mindless violence.
In 28 Days Later, we have a main character who wakes up in a hostile environment he does not understand, so he has to grow in order to do so. Such a transition is masterfully done in his failed execution. Afterwards the character changes.
In 28 Weeks no such feat is accomplished... the characters are plain, foolish, unbelievable and uncharismatic.
Let me put it in simpler words: In 28 Days the villains are the authoritarian soldiers. In 28 Weeks the villains are..... the zombies... that about sums up how weak the sequel is.