Disappointing.

Rating: 4/10 (5 September 2007)

This movie is a terrible letdown. The fault not being in the movie but the fact that it was a sequel to such an exemplary movie like 28 Days Later. I had high expectations, but none were met except for the fact that they lifted the same sound track from the first movie and other rather simple cues which people who have watched the first movie can pick up.
As a stand alone movie it can hold its own, its got gore, action , thrills etc in the right package.....but then what does that become.......a typical Hollywood horror movie. The first one was really creepy, with distinct elements of fear, shock, great sound track, and etc which set it apart from movies like Resident Evil. It never felt like a commercial venture. When i watched the first one, i was glued to the screen and was in constant trepidation........in this somehow the outcome was more or less expected. Also the first movie ended hinting on hope, which leaves a really good feeling in your gut.........but this was like any typical ending.
Personally i felt that the first movie had more of a message to deliver.....the fact that people don't need a virus to kill others, as is evident from the way Cillian Murphy kills the soldiers in the end and Naomi almost mistaking him as an infected......we don't need a virus to enrage us. This movie had none of that........pity, or maybe i guess i was looking for too much.