Excellent and gripping

Rating: 10/10 (1 September 2007)

When you read the summary of this movie's storyline, the last thing you expect is a movie that is amazingly gripping, and makes you realize just how fragile people are.
Some of the scenes displaying sacrifices and choices sticks in your mind for days. It's a movie you won't forget very soon.
The movie, unlike the typical zombie-movies, contains no humor whatsoever; it is raw and violent, and the dark mood stays throughout the movie. The music of John Murphy, from "28 days later" intensifies the chasing scenes, much like the music in "The Rock" did. When you are left with the feeling that a so-called zombie-film seems real, it has to be done perfectly. They have made it as real as it can be. The streets of London looks eerily deserted. In a time of chemical warfare and viruses this should leave us thinking.
This isn't a regular zombie-film. There are a lot of scenes which relates more to classic suspense movies, especially the night vision scene is creepy.
The performances are excellent, especially the young boy convinces. And of course Robert Carlyle. The movie gets more personal than the first one, when we follow the two young siblings. You really want them to survive. The mistake many filmmakers do is to follow a whole group, where the survival of each one is not important to you. But not here.
Creepy, tense, gripping... Just superb! (And I don't even like zombie-films)