28 Days Smart vs. 28 Weeks Studid

Rating: 4/10 (21 October 2007)

This may be a spoiler but I am writing it after the movies release on DVD so I doubt it will ruin the movie for anyone. The first movie, 28 Days Later, was an extraordinary film. From the beginning, the characters were smart,creative and resourceful. You liked the characters in 28 Days and wanted to see them survive. You know bad things are in store when the original writer and director are not on board for the sequel. A really bad, stupid sequel at that. 28 Weeks Later starts off smart and then quickly jumps to really stupid. The main characters are all stupid and selfish. The only smart characters are in the U.S. Army defense force that is attempting to protect and reconstruct Great Britain. The Army makes all the right decisions but fails anyway because the primary characters are complete idiots. The Father is a sympathetic character that makes the right decision to save his own life when his incredibly stupid wife decides to try to save a boy they have just met instead of saving herself by listening to her husband. Sorry, but I would leave her behind also. But then the Father seems to be infected with stupidity when his children return from a safe haven in Spain. The children are complete morons and obviously have inherited their mother's stupid gene in addition to her immunity to the virus. You want to see the characters in 28 Weeks die quick, painful deaths so the movie will end. But they don't and you know they are setting you up for 28 Months Later, 28 Years Later and other never ending sequels.