Doesn't live up to the expectations

Rating: 6/10 (7 September 2007)

All in all I found the sequel a let down. First of all, there really are some flaws in the logic: the general states the the virus would not cross species which is exactly how it broke out in the first place. And if it really doesn't where are all the animals? We are told that they are there but we never see them. Would London after about half a year and a couple of million dead people really look like it had been left yesterday? How did the mother survive? Even if she was immune to the virus why wasn't she torn to pieces? And how did the zombie janitor from hell mention to turn up wherever his family was? That's a bit too much of a coincidence. The other thing that I found a bit off putting was that -as opposed to the first part- violence erupted and there was basically no escalation. And at times there was gore for gore's sake. So all in all, the film was well timed, visually a bit too much cutting edge and a thinking man's gore fest. And of course it was a delight to finally see Garfield Morgan back on the silver screen.