It was indeed a bad movie...

Rating: 4/10 (23 April 2008)

and it's a shame really since it had so much potential. But many things will irk you. Just a few things:
The beginning is great. Lots of action. The beginning was great but not flawless. First off, it pisses me off that a little boy is the reason for so much death. This movie almost makes you hate kids. Their choices and reasoning just makes you want to punch them in the face every time they do something stupid. But if I were to put myself in the survivors' shoes, I'd probably help him out, too. What happened in the movie was just bad luck. Whether they let the kid in or not, the zombies would have probably torn their way into the house anyway.
I hate how they project females in this movie. Okay so their are roughly 6 survivors in the house. One's infected almost instantly, which is fine. It lets the audience know how serious the virus is. She couldn't even get any words out before turning where as in the first movie, you had about 40 seconds. But anyways, back to the women. Grandma and Grandpa and the bald guy make it to the barn and are doing their escape thing. But Grandma doesn't want to leave Grandpa, who has bravely decided to stay behind and hold the do so that grandma and the bald guy have time to escape. I hate this kind of behavior because it's selfish (YES the Grandma IS selfish) and it slows EVERYONE (in the movie) down. Because now instead of using this time to escape, we've got to convince Grandma to let Grandpa go. Of course she refuses until the last second when she sees the zombies crashing in and realizes the real danger she's in. All of the sudden she needs help. HELP ME! HELP ME! Sorry old girl I'm already outside. At least 'I' would be if it were me. The bald guy does what he can but realizes that his life comes first and escapes. Then we center on a man and his wife. The man, the wife, and the boy that got them into this mess in the first place are all traveling together through the house and trying to get to an exit. Suddenly the little boy thinks he knows the house better than the people do and runs off to find his own way out. Wife follows the boy and the husband follows the wife. The Zombies are about 12 seconds away. All three make it to a bedroom where the child is hiding in the closet. The mother tries to go get him but the wise man realizes that there isn't enough time to save the boy and their own skins. The wife doesn't want to listen and goes in to get the boy. She grabs him just in time for the zombies to burst in. All of the sudden, she's ALSO crying out for her husband to help her. Sooooo let me get this straight. You want your husband to risk his own life and take on several zombies because you didn't want the little boy who got you into this mess in the first place to die. I would have done the same exact thing as the man and gotten out of there. This would have been a no brainer. But of course the husband is made out to be the bad guy when he really did the smartest thing that anyone does throughout the ENTIRE MOVIE!
Anyways, the husband is outside and running. The Zombies are right on his tail. The man runs to the creek where the bald guy is untying the boat and trying to start the engine. If he didn't waste so much time with Grandma, the boat would be untied and the engine would just now be starting. But nooooo. And because of this, the bald guy doesn't make it. Aw. The man does. Yay.
Then we jump to 28 weeks later. Why are people living there in the first place? If you found out that your country had previously been overrun with zombie-like creatures less than half a year ago, would you REALLY wanna go back? Would you? Not only that, they are moving people back in the city and STILL cleaning up hazardous material. Come on people. If your house was being sprayed for spiders would you really move back in before the house is completely aired out of poisons? I would hope not. So why don't these people apply the same logic?
It turns out the mother could hold the answer for a possible vaccine for this zombie rage virus. But wait a minute. What is there to cure? The infections gone. The people are just cleaning up now. No more infected.
Anyways, the rest of the movie is just stupid. The soldier and scientist spend the rest of their time trying to save these children who could be a possible cure. Lady. Have you learned nothing? If the quarantine works (which it most likely will since they're planning on nuking the country) there ONCE AGAIN will be no need for a cure. Also, de ja vu anyone? What if the same thing happens? You're trying to save some kids and bring them to a 'clean' country where they can potentially infect people there. JUST like their mother! What if that brat sneezes or coughs on someone? Then what? These people don't use their heads in this movie. They are either panicked or stupid.
The whole movie will upset you simply because, in reality, people just aren't this stupid. No way. I do recommend you see it just to see the messed up things I mentioned. But don't spend any money. Borrow it.