28 weeks later a frenetic nonstop horror thrill ride.

Rating: 8/10 (14 May 2007)

I first have to admit I did not much care for 28 days later, however, part of my dislike for that movie may stem from the fact a review I read said it was like "Dawn of the Dead" which it wasn't really. Still, I may not be as harsh on it now as I was when I first saw it, I found it was a bit slow at times and you really never got to see the best horror, only have it described to you by the one person talking about how people were in a panic and that one by one people turned. Here you get to see exactly that. The movie starts with a bang as a husband flees from the rage infected hordes of people having left his wife behind seemingly to die, flash to 28 weeks later and the city is being repopulated slowly, but surely as the husband from the beginning is reunited with his kids who are extremely stupid. Yes, they do what they are not supposed to and go into a non safe area in search of their old house so they can pick up a few mementos of their mum. Well surprise, surprise their mother is alive, though not so well and is taken back to the city for examination. Well we soon find out why you should stay in the safe zone as the infection begins again and I am pretty sure most of the people who have returned home are now thinking maybe we should not have returned. The infection spreads as fast as described in the first movie, there is panic in the streets and the military is now in kill mode as our two kids are joined by a medical officer and a military man not keen on shooting everyone in sight whether infected or not. So you have cool chases with both the infected and the military and the characters in this one don't have much time to do anything, but catch their breath. Very good and fast paced horror movie.