Weeks and Weeks

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 2017)

Set six months after the events of '28 Days Later...', the rage virus is thought to be under control until another unexpected outbreak occurs in this sequel to the Danny Boyle horror film. With a plot description like that, '28 Weeks Later' might sound like a shameless copy of its predecessor, but it is actually refreshingly different during its first half with helicopter shots of a deserted London in ruins and lots of bureaucratic issues as various soldiers try to control the re-population of the city. Robert Carlyle is also saddled with a curiously morally ambiguous main character who we see abandon his wife early on in a desperate attempt to survive a zombie attack. The second half of the film is nowhere near as solid its the build-up though as the movie descends into mindless zombie attacks that never really resonate that much since Carlyle's kids here are never quite as interesting or well developed as the main characters of the original movie. The ending certainly leaves a bit to think about in terms of how our humanity may end up only making things worse were a zombie plague ever to come our way, though the way it paves way for a potential third movie to come is very unsubtle.