A great sequel!

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2011)

28 Weeks Later proved to be a great sequel almost as great as the first film,28 Days Later.The movie begins in a small county near London where in a house there are some survivors hiding from the infected,but unfortunately they are being found by them and everybody is getting killed(or infected) except of Don,a man who got panicked and didn't help his wife while they got trapped in a room and just ran away and eventually survived.Now,28 weeks later we learn that every infected died of starvation and people have started returning to England but at the moment only London is complete safe under the surveillance of the American Army who is everywhere in the city and is watching the place 24/7.Don who now works in the security of an area welcomes back his children Tammy and Andy who had been on vacation to Spain luckily before the outbreak of the virus of rage.When they get all together their father tells them that their mother is dead and they decide to get secretly back at their house in order to get some things they want.But while they are inside their old house they get struck by lightning;they find their mother alive who survived because she has naturally immunity to the virus because of an abnormality in her genes and although she has been infected she shows no symptoms.She is being returned in the base in order the scientists to find out why she has immunity to the virus.However because she is considered (rightfully) dangerous they army decides to execute her but they get there too late...Don visited his wife,hugged her and unfortunately kissed her and got infected.After that the aftermath is pretty much predictable;the situation is getting out of control and the army decides to apply red code which means that since the soldiers cannot get clean shots of who is infected and who is normal ,everybody must be shot down.Also after that,they are bombarding a huge area.Luckily Tammy,Andy,a soldier named Doyl and a biologist named Scarlet are managing to survive and arrange to meet a soldier who is flying a helicopter in order to escape from there.But they realize that they are not the only ones who didn't get devastated and in the end only Tammy and Andy are finding the pilot and are getting away.The end is not exactly a happy one as Andy(who got infected but seems to have immunity),Tammy and the pilot are seem to have been vanquished and the only thing we see is the deserted helicopter and thousands of infected people running in the center of Paris!
To sum up the film manages to keep the breathtaking rhythm of the first movie,contains a lot of violent,brutal and generally socking scenes such as the opening scene,the one in the garage,in the medic clinic and so on.The acting is quite good,the scenery of the empty London(like in the first movie) is very impressive and the thing that makes once again the difference is the superb soundtrack which was used also in the first film(John Murphy's "In a heartbeat").28 Weeks Later is one of the best sequels of the last decades and every fan of the first film-and not only- should watch it.