Started great but went down hill fast

Rating: 1/10 (28 November 2008)

The premise of the movie is plausible (not likely but plausible) that a virus could suddenly infect a large population of London (hey , the plague did roll through there a few centuries ago) and create all sorts of mayhem. In this story, the infected become living zombies (as opposed to dead zombies since the infected are technically still living) and go around attacking the uninfected living. Why they don't attack one another is beyond me, perhaps out of professional courtesy? Sorry, I digress.
Anyway, the military gets the situation under control (the U.S. military that is....where's the British military and NATO?) and start re-populating an area dubbed "The Green Zone" isolated from the still unsecured "wild" areas. Huh? What kind of logic is that, something as deadly as this virus and they don't do a complete clean-up before bringing in civilians? Obviously the World Health Organization (WHO) would not have allowed that to happen.
This crazy lack of logic is present throughout the story and really killed the movie for me. Quick summary, the rest of the story goes as follows: Two kids slip out of the "Green Zone" and wander around the outside. I estimate at least half an hour goes by before the soldiers mobilize and chase down the kids. (So much for the much ballyhooed secured area) The kids find their chewed up mother still alive and they're all reunited and live happily ever after. Well maybe not but from that point, the story gets more and more ridiculous until you pretty much don't care if anyone survives. It just defies logic that they would bring an infected person into the so-called "Green Zone" and allow that person to make contact with others. Predictably, someone gets bitten, the virus spreads, and the zombies start taking over again!
Without giving away the ending, I can tell you that room is left for a third sequel (FYI, the first movie is entitled "28 Days Later"). I certainly hope they don't make another.