Eh? What?

Rating: 2/10 (9 September 2007)

Those two words kinda sum up 28 Weeks Later, a sequel with admittedly a lot to live up to but after a promising start devolves into the usual zombie chase flick with plot holes big enough to make the plot of a troma movie look like a masterpiece in comparison.
28 Days Later (the original) was a great film, and deserves so much more than this trash as it's sequel. 28 Weeks Later starts with a group of people taking shelter in a farmhouse. We are introduced to the main character (portrayed by Robert Carlyle) and the semi-main character, his wife (Catherine McCormack), suffice to say the relatively calm opening soon descends into the usual Zombie Attack (tm) with Carlyle's character forced to abandon his wife after being separated.
The film then continues into a plot-hole filled absurdity that many sequels are guilty of falling into. My main complaints are as follows...
1. We are introduced to Carlyle's son (son!? i though he was a she for a good while) and daughter who have been living in a refuge camp in Spain. According to Carlyle's character he has "access-all-areas" due to his job as a kinda supervisor. Now i don't know how the USA army does things but i can kinda hope that they never allow a civilian an "access-all-areas" pass.
2. The two kids then "escape" from the secure compound and enter the main area of London. OK stop me if im wrong, but surely any entrance/exit would be covered with enough guards and cameras that no-one (especially not 2 kids) would get through. But nope, the USA troops gain a collective "blind spot" and although one of the snipers does see them there is no response to his report.... err scuse me!? people escaping into major city that was filled with Zombies!? surely all the apaches flying around could maybe persuade them to go back into the city but no...
3. The contingency plans are so laughable its painful, shove the entire 15,000 repatriates into a garage and lock the doors!.... hang on, what about that un-secured fire exit, shouldn't that be guarded... nope!..... stupid stupid stupid, this is when you realise that 28 Weeks Later is just plain insulting. Suffice to say loadsa people get infected so the response by the military... kill everyone!.. yep the US army really is that bloodthirsty.. c'mon! In the end, instead of establishing outposts and firing lines for the zombies to break on the decision is made to firebomb the island (hey we gotta get at least 1 explosion in)
4. The main party (Carlyle's kids along with the general "red shirt" group) try to get themselves extracted by helicopter, however the pilot can't land where they are so directs them to travel 1/2 way across the city to a park... 2 minutes later there is a shot of them standing in a street that could fit 2 choppers in side by side!
5. Robert Carlyle's character is so built up, but then contracts the rage virus by kissing his wife (who's been found alive and is infected but not a zombie.. yadda yadda thin plot) so the first 20 minutes or so of the movie seem to have been a waste of time as he descends into a rage filled, growling, snarling rampage. However once he's left the military area (seriously, not ONE person managed to shoot him, in what should have been the most heavily guarded area where his wife was being held) he becomes super-zombie... able to track his kids somehow, and showing up like a messy version of Jason to stand menacingly in the background. Seriously, how was he meant to have escaped the firebombing?!
6. The ending is predictable and screams "ONE MORE SEQUEL" at you.
28 Weeks Later could have been brilliant, instead it leaves you confused and insulted. Avoid!